The new American poetry of engagement : a 21st century anthology / edited by Ann Keniston and Jeffrey Gray.
"This anthology offers a comprehensive look at contemporary American poetry, demonstrating that poets are moving at once toward a new engagement with public concerns and toward a focus on the problems of representation. A detailed introduction by the editors along with statements by many of the...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Saying what happened in the 21st century
- Rae Armantrout : New ; Previews ; Bubble wrap ; Action poem
- Frank Bidart : Curse ; The soldier who guards the frontier ; To the republic ; Inauguration day
- Robert Bly : Call and answer ; Let sympathy pass ; The stew of discontents ; Those being eaten ; Here the sleepers sleep
- Bruce Bond : The altars of September ; Flag ; Ringtone
- Joel Brouwer : Lines from the reports of the investigative committees
- Timothy Donnelly : Partial inventory of airborne debris ; Dream of Arabian hillbillies
- Carolyn Forché : The ghost of Heaven
- Katie Ford : Flee ; Earth ; Fish market ; The vessel bends the water
- Forrest Gander : Background check
- Peter Gizzi : Protest song
- Louise Glück : October
- Albert Goldbarth : Some common terms in Latin that are larger than our lives
- Kenneth Goldsmith : "A1" from The day
- Jorie Graham : Little exercise ; Praying (Attempt of June 14 '03) ; Guantánamo ; Employment
- Linda Gregerson : Sweet ; Father Mercy, Mother Tongue ; Still life ; The selvage
- Eamon Grennan : Y2K
- Marilyn Hacker : Letter to Hayden Carruth ; From Names ; Ghazal: min al-hobbi m'a qatal
- Forrest Hamer : Aftermath ; What happened ; Conference
- Robert Hass : I am your waiter tonight and my name is Dmitri ; Ezra Pound's Proposition ; On visiting the DMZ at Panmunjom : a haibun ; Some of David's story
- Bob Hicok : Happy anniversary ; Full flight ; Troubled times ; In the loop ; Stop-loss
- Brenda Hillman : From Nine untitled epyllions ; Reportorial poetry, trance & activism ; In a Senate Armed Services hearing ; Request to the Berkeley City Council concerning Strawberry Creek ; In high desert under the drones
- Galway Kinnell : When the towers fell
- Yusef Komunyakaa : From "Love in the time of war" ; Grenade ; The towers ; Heavy metal soliloquy ; The warlord's garden ; Surge ; Clouds
- Maxine Kumin : Extraordinary rendition ; On reading The age of innocence in a troubled time ; Entering houses at night ; Still we take joy ; Just deserts
- Ann Lauterbach : Victory ; Hum ; Echo revision
- Ben Lerner : Didactic elegy
- Timothy Liu : Ready-mades ; Vita Breva ; Beauty ; Elegy for Oum Kolsoum written across the sky
- John Matthias : Column I, tablet XIII
- J.D. McClatchy : Jihad
- Raymond McDaniel : Assault to Abjury ; Sen Jak's advice to the tropically depressed
- Sandra McPherson : On being transparent: Cedar Rapids Airport
- W.S. Merwin : To the light of September ; To the words ; To the grass of autumn ; To ashes ; To the coming winter
- Philip Metres : From "Hung lyres" ; Asymmetries ; Testimony ; Compline ; From "Homefront/removes"
- Naomi Shihab Nye : Dictionary in the dark ; Interview, Saudi Arabia ; I never realized they had aspirations like ours
- Geoffrey O'Brien : A history
- Sharon Olds : September, 2001
- Robert Pinsky : Poem of disconnected parts ; The forgetting ; The anniversary
- Kevin Prufer : National anthem ; Dead soldier ; Those who could not flee ; Recent history ; God bless our troops
- Claudia Rankine : From Don't let me be lonely: an American lyric : "Cornel West makes the point" ; "Timothy McVeigh died at 7:14 a.m."
- Donald Revell : Given days ; Vietnam epic treatment ; Election year
- Frederick Seidel : God exploding ; The black-eyed virgins ; Eurostar ; Song : "The swollen river overthrows its banks" ; The Bush administration
- Hugh Seidman : Found poem: Microloans ; Thinking of Baghdad
- Lisa Sewell : The anatomy of melancholy
- Susan Stewart : When I'm crying, I'm not speaking ; When I'm speaking, I'm not crying ; Elegy against the massacre at the Amish school in West Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, autumn 2006
- David Wagoner : In rubble
- C.K. Williams : War ; Fear ; The future ; Cassandra, Iraq ; Lies
- Eleanor Wilner : Found in the free library ; In a time of war ; Back then, we called it "The war" ; The show must go on ; Rendition, with flag ; Colony collapse disorder (CCD)
- C.D. Wright : From Rising, falling, hovering: "He slept with the dead then" ; "One bright night" ; "I was just thinking"
- Robert Wrigley : Exxon
- The poets : profiles and statements.