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Title:
The best American poetry, 2015
Author:
Alexie, Sherman, 1966- , editor.
Publication Information:
New York : Scribner Poetry, 2015.
Physical Description:
xxv, 211 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Bodhisattva / Cedars of Lebanon / A retrograde / WFM: Allergic to Pine-Sol, Am I the Only One / Swallowed / A Scatology / The Joins / House is an Enigma / Prayer at 3 a.m. / Makeshift / in the hall of the ruby-throated warbler / Homeland / DOCTORS LIE, MAY HIDE MISTAKES / A fourteen-line poem on sex / for i will do/undo what was done/undone to me / Careful, I Just Won a Prize at the Fair / The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve / Slow-Wave Sleep with a Fairy Tale / In a Black Tank Top / It Was the Animals / Fornicating / Vernacular Owl / In Memory of My Parents Who Are Not Dead Yet / On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses / The Garden in August / Madelyn Garner -- Rhinencephalon / A Sharply Worded Silence / Looney Tunes / Thumbs / Antebellum House Party / My Husband / A Common Cold / Crisis on Infinite Earths, Issues 1-12 / Body & Kentucky Bourbon / Exhibits from the Dark Museum / For the Young Woman I Saw Hit by a Car While Riding Her Bike / In the End, They Were Born On TV / Eating Walnuts / Is Spot in Heaven? / Ode to the Common Housefly / The Pickpocket Song / Watching the Sea Go / See a Furious Waterfall Without Water / Party Games / Anxieties / If My Late Grandmother Were Gertrude Stein / There Are Birds Here / Jamaal May -- There Were Only Dandelions / Laura McCullough -- Dove / Upon Hearing the News You Buried Our Dog / Plutonium / 54 Prince / Survivor Guilt / Candying Mint / Relevant Details / The Main Event / Citizen / Poem Begun on a Train / Endnotes on Ciudad Juárez / legend / So Early in the Morning / Similitude at Versailles / The Macarena / Ajar / Memo to the Former Child Prodigy / Delicatessen / How You Might Approach a Foal: / The Chickasaw Trees / Trades I Would Make / Goodness in Mississippi / City of Eternal Spring / Dear Black Barbie / Subject to Change / Thaw / March of the Hanged Men
ISBN:
9781476708201

9781476708195
Format :
Book