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Overview
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: | 9781982186692 |
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Publisher: | Scribner |
Publication date: | 09/13/2022 |
Series: | Best American Poetry Series |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.38(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
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