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The Best American Poetry 2022

The Best American Poetry 2022

Overview

Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).

Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year’s most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work.

For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are “for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings” (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series.

The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781982186708
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 09/13/2022
Series: Best American Poetry Series
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 253,212
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include The Morning Line, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Matthew Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry Come on All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Father’s Day, as well as Why Poetry and Story of a Poem, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he teaches in the MFA in creative writing program at Saint Mary’s College of California. Zapruder has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship. In 2000, he cofounded Verse Press, and is now editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. His poetry has been adapted and performed by Gabriel Kahane and Brooklyn Rider, and was the libretto for Vespers for a New Dark Age, a piece by Missy Mazzoli commissioned for the Ecstatic Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. From 2016 to 2017, he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for The New York Times Magazine and guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2022.
David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include The Morning Line, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Matthew Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry, including Come on All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Father’s Day; Why Poetry; and Story of a Poem, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship. His poetry has been adapted and performed by Gabriel Kahane and Brooklyn Rider and Attacca Quartet at Carnegie Hall and San Francisco Performances and was the libretto for Vespers for a New Dark Age, a piece by Missy Mazzoli commissioned for the Ecstatic Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. He was Guest Editor of Best American Poetry 2022, and from 2016 to 2017, he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the weekly Poetry Column for The New York Times Magazine. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is editor at large at Wave Books, and teaches in the MFA in creative writing program at Saint Mary’s College of California.

Table of Contents

Foreword David Lehman xi

Introduction Matthew Zapruder xxi

Aria Aber, "America" 1

Raymond Antrobus, "Text and Image" 4

Dara Barrois/Dixon, "Remembering" 7

E. C. Belli, "Vows" 9

Oliver Baez Bendoff, "What the Dead Can Do" 11

Kristin Bock, "Gaslighter" 13

William Brewer, "Anthony Bourdain" 14

Jericho Brown, "Inaugural" 18

James Cagney, "Proof" 21

Bill Carty, "Outer Lands" 23

Jennifer Chang, "The Innocent" 26

Cathy Link Che, "Marriage" 28

Tiana Clark, "Broken Sestina Reaching for Black Joy" 30

Michael Earl Craig, "Preparing for Sleep" 33

Laura Cronk, "Today: What Is Sexy" 35

Diana Marie Delgado, "Separate but Umbilical Situations Relating to My Father" 38

Matthew Dickman, "Goblin" 39

Tishani Doshi, "Advice for Pliny the Elder, Big Daddy of Mansplainers" 43

Camille T. Dungy, "Let Me" 45

Sofia Elhillo, "Ode to Sudanese Americans" 47

Shangyang Fang, "A Bulldozer's American Dream" 50

Vievee Francis, "1965: Harriet Richardson Wipes Galway Kinnell's Face after State Troopers Beat Him with a Billy Club" 52

Forrest Gander, "Sea: Night Surfing in Bolinas" 53

Louise Glück, "Second Wind" 54

April Goldman, "Into the Mountains" 55

Paul Guest, "Theories of Revenge" 57

Jalynn Harris, "The Life of a Writer" 59

Terrance Hayes, "What Would You Ask the Artist?" 61

Brenda Hillman, ":::[to the voice of the age]:::" 65

Noor Hindi, "Against Death" 67

Major Jackson, "Ode to Everything" 68

Brionne Janae, "Capitalism" 70

Rodney Jones, "How Much I Loved This Life" 71

Laura Kasischke, "When a bolt of lightning falls in love" 72

Laura Kolbe, "Buried Abecedary for Intensive Care" 74

Jason Koo, "The Rest Is Silence" 75

Deborah Landau, "Skeletons" 92

Li-Young Lee, "Big Clock" 93

Dana Levin, "January Garden" 95

Ada Limón, "My Father's Mustache" 97

Irene Mathieu, "the junkyard galaxy knocks" 98

Yesenia Montilla, "How to Greet a Warbler" 100

Julia Anna Morrison, "Myths About Trees" 101

Sara Mumolo, "Trauma Note" 102

Luisa Muradyan, "Quoting the Bible" 103

Robin Myers, "Diego de Montemayor" 105

Sharon Olds, "Best Friend Ballad" 107

Cynthia Parker-Ohene, "In Virginia" 109

Cecily Parks, "Pandemic Parable" 111

D. A. Powell, "Elegy on Fire" 114

Valencia Robin, "After Graduate School" 117

Michael Robins, "The Remaining Facts" 118

Matthew Rohrer, "Follow Them" 119

Patrick Rosal, "La Época En Que Hay Olvida" 120

Erika L. Sánchez, "Departure" 122

Alexis Sears, "Hair Sestina" 124

Diane Seuss, "Modern Poetry" 126

Prageeta Sharma, "Widowing" 129

Charles Simic, "In the Lockdown" 131

Jake Skeets, "Anthropocene: A Dictionary" 132

Jessica Q. Stark, "Hungry Poem with Laughter Coming from an Unknown Source" 135

Alina Stefanescu, "Little Time" 137

Gerald Stem, "Lest I Forget Thee" 139

Bianca Stone, "The Infant's Eyes" 141

Michael Teig, "At This Point My Confusion" 144

Ocean Vuong, "Reasons for Staying" 145

William Waltz, "In a dark time, the eye begins to see" 147

Robert Whitehead, "Hi, How Are You" 149

El Williams III, "Elegy for the Gnat" 150

Phillip B. Williams, "Final Poem for My Father Misnamed in My Mouth" 152

Elizabeth Willis, "What Else in Art Do You Pay For" 154

Mark Wunderlich, "First, Chill" 156

Dean Young, "Spark Theory" 159

Felicia Zamora, "Chris Martin Sings 'Shiver' & I Shiver: A Poem for Madam Vice President" 160

Jenny Zhang, "under the chiming bell" 162

Contributors' Notes and Comments 165

Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published 201

Acknowledgments 203

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