American poetry now : Pitt poetry series anthology / edited by Ed Ochester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ochester, Ed.

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007]

Summary:

"American Poetry Now" is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suá rez, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others.

Contents:

Maggie Anderson 1

Spitting in the Leaves 2

Heart Fire 2

Long Story 3

Black Dog Goes to Art Colony 6

Self-Portrait 6

/ Dorothy Barresi 8

The Post-Rapture Diner 9

The Nude Detective, A Complaint 9

Sock Hop with the New Critics 11

Glass Dress 12

Body Says 14

/ Quan Barry 16

The exiled (from "child of the enemy") 17

Intermurals 18

Tradition 19

Crossing the South China Sea as analgesia 20

Emmett Till's Open Casket as La Pieta 21

Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire 21

/ Jan Beatty 23

Mad River 24

Ravenous Blue 24

A Waitress' Instructions on Tipping or Get the Cash Up and Don't Waste My Time 25

After sex on a train 26

My Father Teaches Me to Dream 26

Going Deep for Jesus 27

Zen of Tipping 28

Machine Shop of Love 29

/ Robin Becker 31

The New Egypt 32

Now 32

OK, Tucker 33

Adult Child 34

Why We Fear the Amish 34

Spiritual Morning 35

The Bath 36

The Story I Like to Tell 36

/ Richard Blanco 38

America 39

The Silver Sands 41

El Cucubano 42

Tia Olivia Serves Wallace Stevens a Cuban Egg 43

/ Christopher Bursk 45

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume 46

The Barbarians 47

One Nation, Indivisible, Under God 48

The World of Business 49

/ Anthony Butts 51

Blue Movie 52

Eros and Thanatos 53

Trying to Be Human 54

Forgiveness 55

Heritage 6

/ Lorna Dee Cervantes 58

Emplumada 59

Meeting Mescalito at Oak Hill Cemetery 59

Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway 60

Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races 63

/ Wanda Coleman 66

Lady Sings the Blues 1969 67

Los Angeles Nocturne 68

Soul Traveler 69

Baptism 70

Exoteric 71

/ Billy Collins 72

I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey's Version of "Three Blind Mice" 73

Shoveling Snow with Buddha 74

This Much I Do Remember 75

Japan 76

Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes 78

The Death of the Hat 79

/ Mark Cox 81

Pail of Eggs 82

Sill 82

Like a Simile 84

Style 85

Natural Causes 85

After Rain 86

Ashes, Ashes 87

/ Jim Daniels 88

Raw October 89

Digger Pays Off the Mortgage 89

Digger's Territory 90

Still Lives; Sweat 91

Trouble at the Drive-In 92

Blessing the House 93

/ Chard Deniord 95

Raiding the Bees 96

To Hear and Hear 96

Frog 97

Whales 97

Night Mowing 98

Through a Train Window 98

An incident at the Catholic Worker 99

I See Them Now 100

/ Toi Derricotte 101

Blackbottom 102

Boy at the Paterson Falls 103

In an Urban School 103

Allen Ginsburg 104

The Struggle 105

Grace Paley Reading 105

When My Father Was Beating Me 106

/ Denise Duhamel 108

Kinky 109

Sex with a Famous Poet 110

The Difference between Pepsi and Pope 111

Nick at Nite 113

The Problem with Woody Allen 114

Noah and Joan 115

/ Russell Edson 117

The Secret Graveyard 118

The Key 118

Baby Pianos 119

The Alfresco Moment 119

The Message 119

The Square Wheel 120

Angels 120

The Bath 121

Thus Spake Polly 121

Wings 121

/ Lynn Emanuel 123

Inside gertrude stein 124

Halfway Through the Book I'm Writing 125

Homage to Sharon Stone 126

Portrait of the Author 128

/ Peter Everwine 130

Drinking Cold Water 131

Perhaps It's as You Say 132

Sorting the Tools 132

In the Last Days 133

Poem Beginning with a Line from Leonardo Sinisgalli 134

From the Meadow 135

The Heart 136

/ Edward Field 137

Frankenstein 138

Nancy 139

Unwanted 141

The Tailspin 142

In Praise of My Prostate 142

The Lost, Dancing 143

Garbo 144

/ Daisy Fried 145

She Didn't Mean to Do It 146

A Story Having to Do with Walt Whitman 146

Whatever Works 148

Aunt Leah, Aunt Sophie and the Negro Painter 148

/ Barbara Hamby 152

Ode to American English 153

The Mockingbird on the Buddha 154

Ode to the Potato 155

Fang 155

Ode to Rock 'n' Roll 156

Ode to My 1977 Toyota 157

/ C. G. Hanzlicek 159

Egg 160

The Cave 161

Blue Light 162

Moment 165

/ Bob Hicok 167

Twins 168

Team effort 169

My new neighbor 169

Beasts 170

Full flight 174

/ Gray Jacobik 176

Pollock's Paintings 177

The Shabby Truth 178

Breasts 180

The Lizard Man 180

/ Julia Kasdorf 182

What I Learned from My Mother 183

Mennonites 183

When Our Women Go Crazy 184

First Gestures 185

Eve's Striptease 186

The Sun Lover 187

Sinning 188

/ Jesse Lee Kercheval 190

Enter Mecca 191

Not 192

What Max, Age Two, Remembers about Spain 193

The Great Molasses Flood 195

/ Etheridge Knight 197

Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane 198

He Sees Through Stone 199

The Idea of Ancestry 200

The Warden Said to Me the Other Day 201

Feeling Fucked Up 202

Welcome Back, Mr. Knight: Love of My Life 202

Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine 203

Rehabilitation & Treatment in the Prisons of America 204

/ Sandra Kohler 206

The Game 207

The Pond 207

The End of the Gulf War 208

Tea 209

Write 210

/ Ted Kooser 211

Selecting a Reader 212

A Frozen Stream 212

The Very Old 213

How to Make Rhubarb Wine 214

A Widow 215

Fort Robinson 215

Shooting a Farmhouse 215

Flying at Night 216

Laundry 217

At the Office Early 217

Year's End 218

/ Larry Levis 219

Winter Stars 220

My Story in a Late Style of Fire 221

The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. 223

The Smell of the Sea 224

/ Shara McCallum 227

Sunset on the Wharf 228

Jamaica, October 18, 1972 228

What my mother taught me 229

Calypso 229

What the Oracle Said 230

An Offering 231

Facing It 232

/ Peter Meinke 233

Sonnet on the Death of the Man Who Invented Plastic Roses 234

(Untitled) 234

The Poet, Trying to Surprise God 235

Liquid Paper 235

Atomic Pantoum 236

Zinc Fingers 237

A Meditation on You and Wittgenstein 238

Preacher, Said the General 239

/ Malena Morling 241

If There Is Another World 242

Happiness 243

Gone 243

Simply Lit 245

Seemed Pleased 246

In the Yellow Head of a Tulip 248

A Wake 249

/ Kathleen Norris 250

Perennials 251

Young Lovers with Pizza 252

Eve of St.

Agnes in the High School Gym 253

How I Came to Drink My Grandmother's Piano 254

Emily in Choir 256

/ Sharon Olds 257

Satan Says 258

Quake Theory 259

Indictment of Senior Officers 260

The Sisters of Sexual Treasure 261

Station 261

The Language of the Brag 262

Seventh Birthday of the First Child 263

The Unjustly Punished Child 264

The Mother 264

/ Alicia Suskin Ostriker 265

The Leaf Pile 266

A Question of Time 267

Everywoman Her Own Theology 269

The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz 270

What Was Lost 270

Fix 272

/ Minnie Bruce Pratt 273

The Blue Cup 274

Learning to Write 274

From "Crime Against Nature" (1) 275

From "Crime Against Nature" (6) 276

Walking Back Up Depot Street 277

Chopping Peppers 279

/ Paisley Rekdal 280

A Pornography 281

Dear Lacuna, Dear Lard 282

Ode 283

/ Richard Shelton 287

The Creep 288

If I Were a Dog 289

The Little Towns of West Texas 290

In Search of History 291

Politics Last Summer 292

Miranda of the Sorrows 293

/ Reginald Shepherd 295

Maritime 296

A Plague for Kit Marlowe 297

World 299

Semantics at Four P.M. 300

/ Cathy Song 302

The Day Has Come When My Mother 303

My Beautiful Daughter Calls to Tell Melt's Snowing 303

The Souls We Carry Hunger for Our Light 305

I Hated the Hairy Ones 306

Cloud Moving Hands 308

/ Virgil Suarez 310

In the House of White Light 311

Recitative after Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" 312

Isla 313

American Drag Rhapsody: J. Edgar Hoover in Havana 314

La Florida 315

Purple Finch 316

The What of Rocks 318

/ Ronald Wallace 319

A Hot Property 320

Sestina for the House 320

Nightline: An Interview with the General 322

Fielding 322

The Friday Night Fights 323

Off the Record 323

In the Amish Bakery 324

Pantoum: The Sturdy of Worry 325

Man Sleeping 326

Blessings 326

AFAA Michael Weaver 328

Ego 329

Sidney Bechet 329

The Picnic, An Homage to Civil Rights 330

The Shaw Brothers 331

19 Pages with No Promotion 332

/ David Wojahn 333

E-mail (from "Dithyramb and Lamentation") 334

"Mystery Train": Janis Joplin Leaves Port Arthur for Points West, 1964 (from "Mystery Train: A Sequence") 334

"It's Only Rock 'n' Roll but I Like It": The Fall of Saigon, 1975 (from "Mystery Train: A Sequence") 335

The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987 (from "Mystery Train: A Sequence") 336

Excavation Photo 337

Stammer 338

And the Unclean Spirits Went Out of the Man, and Entered into Swine 339

Homage to Blind Willie Johnson 340

/ Dean Young 342

Chapped Lips 343

Dog Toy 344

Sources of the Delaware 346

Lives of the Olympians 348

Lives of the Robots 349

From The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser 351

Poem 353

The Bill (from "The Book of the Dead") 353

Bubble of Air 356

Children, the Sandbar, that Summer 356

The Conjugation of the Paramecium 357

In Our Time 358

Endless 358

What Do We See? 359

Myth 360

From "Breaking Open (Rational Man)" 360

Looking at Each Other 361.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-376).

ISBN:

9780822943105

0822943107

9780822959649

082295964X

OCLC:

77004208

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