The best American poetry 2016
By: Edward Hirsch, editor ; David Lehman, series editor
Contributors: Lehmann, David, editor
Edition: First Scribner edition.
Series: The best American poetry series; Best American poetry
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781501127564; 9781501127557
Subjects: American poetry
Notes: Various printings.

Previous edition: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Sentence  -- Christopher Bakken; title: O Esperanza!  -- Catherine Barnett; title: Whitman, 1841  -- Rick Barot; title: Daylight Savings  -- Jill Bialoskey; title: Fruits de Mer  -- Paula Bohince; title: Ugglig  -- Michelle Boisseau; title: I get to float invisible  -- Marianne Boruch; title: Hubert Blankenship  -- David Bottoms; title: 32 fantasy football teams  -- Joseph Chapman and Laura Eve Engel; title: Last morning with Steve Orlen  -- Michael Collier; title: The heart of it all + a free beer  -- Allison Davis; title: On the certainty of Bryan  -- Olena Kalytiak Davis; title: How the Milky Way was made  -- Natalie Diaz; title: Humanity 101  -- Denise Duhamel; title: My life  -- Lynn Emanuel; title: Cyst  -- Claudia Emerson; title: Here I am  -- Martín Espada; title: The Kiskiminetas River  -- Peter Everwine; title: When I turned fourteen, my mother's sister took me to lunch and said:  -- Alexis Rhone Fancher; title: One had lived in a room and loved nothing  -- Charles Fort; title: The sadness of clothes  -- Emily Fragos; title: A drop of seawater under the microscope  -- Amy Gerstler; title: Meet me at the lighthouse  -- Dana Gioia; title: Reading to my father  -- Jorie Graham; title: The lady responds  -- Juliana Gray; title: Font  -- Linda Gregerson; title: Self-portrait on the street of an unnamed foreign city  -- Jennifer Grotz; title: Doctor Scheef  -- Mark Halliday; title: Afterword  -- Jeffrey Harrison; title: Barberism  -- Terrance Hayes; title: Bible study  -- Tony Hoagland; title: The unwritten volume  -- Cynthia Hogue; title: I got heaven...  -- Garrett Hongo; title: Girls  -- Erin Hoover; title: 85 off & on  -- Richard Howard; title: Minutiae  -- T.R. Hummer; title: Morning tableau  -- Ishion Hutchinson; title: Aubade  -- Major Jackson; title: Visions of labor  -- Lawrence Joseph; title: As if  -- Julie Kane; title: Return of the native  -- Suji Kwock Kim; title: Tissue gallery  -- Loretta Collins Klobah; title: The swimmer  -- John Koethe; title: The fool  -- Yusef Komunyakaa; title: We drive home from the lake, sand in our shoes  -- Keetje Kuipers; title: Solitaire  -- Deborah Landau; title: Folding a five-cornered star so the corners meet  -- Li-Young Lee; title: More than you gave  -- Philip Levine; title: If he came & diminished me & mapped my way  -- Larry Levis; title: On the road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari  -- Robin Coste Lewis; title: Ode while awaiting execution  -- Thomas Lux; title: Psalm for the lost  -- Paul Mariani; title: Lament  -- Debra Marquart; title: High school in Schuzou  -- Cate Marvin; title: Everything will be taken away  -- Morgan Parker; title: My father's "Norton introduction to literature," third edition (1981)  -- Hai-Dang Phan; title: The first last light in the sky  -- Rowan Ricardo Phillips; title: Variation on a line from Elizabeth Bishop's "Five flights up"  -- Stanley Plumly; title: Late Aubade  -- James Richardson; title: At the tribunals  -- Patrick Rosal; title: Vineyard  -- David St. John; title: But I'm the only one  -- Brenda Shaughnessy; title: Maid Maleen  -- Anya Silver; title: Grief  -- Taije Silverman; title: Prayer for recovery  -- Tom Sleigh; title: Alice, bewildered  -- A.E. Stallings; title: Cotton you lose in the field  -- Frank Stanford; title: What Piranesi knew  -- Susan Stewart; title: Drones: an exercise in awe-terror  -- Nomi Stone; title: Peaches  -- Adrienne Su; title: Dome of the hidden temple  -- James Tate; title: The apology  -- Lee Upton; title: Hog  -- C.K. Williams; title: To think of how cold  -- Eleanor Wilner; title: The drummer Omar: poet of percussion -- Al Young.