Personal Best (eBook, ePUB)

Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most
Redaktion: Belieu, Erin; Phillips, Carl

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.

Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays that explain how and why each poet chose a poem as their "personal best." The anthology offers a provocative and surprising range of responses in which readers will find poetic context for the life of a poem and revelatory insight into the unique, personal experiences that shape the writing process itself. Including works from a wide variety of voices both new and well-established, Personal Best is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today. The anthology gives readers-both long-time fans of poetry and those just discovering its possibilities-an intimate view of the heart and spirit that make poetry one of our most quintessentially human forms of expression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781619322844
• Artikelnr.: 69158411

Autorenporträt

About the Editors Erin Belieu is the author of five poetry collections, all from Copper Canyon Press, including her most recent, Come-Hither Honeycomb. Belieu literary activism earned her the AWP’s George Garrett Prize for her service to the national writing community, and she co-founded VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and Writers Resist. Belieu teaches in the University of Houston MFA/Ph.D. Creative Writing Program and for Lesley University’s low residency MFA program in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Carl Phillips is a seasoned poet, author, and translator who has published three prose books and sixteen poetry collections, most recently Then the War: New And Selected Poems 2007-2020. His honors include the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (2023), a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis with a focus on contemporary poetry, classical philology, and translation.

Inhaltsangabe

Samuel Ace: “I Met a Man”
Kaveh Akbar: “Reading Farrokhzad in a Pandemic”
Rick Barot: “The Names”
Oliver Baez Bendorf: “Untitled [Who cut me from/growing into a buck?]”
Reginald Dwayne Betts: from “House of Unending”
Mark Bibbins: “At the End of the Endless Decade”
Jericho Brown: “Pause”
Molly McCully Brown: “God is Your Shoulder”
Victoria Chang: “The Clock”
jos charles: from “Feeld”
John Lee Clark: “Line of Descent”
Martha Collins: “White Paper 6”
CAConrad: “9 Shard”
Eduardo C. Corral: “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome”
Laura Da’: “River City”
Oscar de la Paz: “The Surgical Theater as Spirit Cabinet”
Mark Doty: “No”
Rita Dove: “Götterdämmerung”
Camille Dungy: “Natural History”
Heid Erdrich: “The Theft Outright”
Martín Espada: “Haunt Me”
Tarfia Faizullah: “Great Material”
Jennifer Elise Foerster: “The Last Kingdom”
Carolyn Forché: “The Garden of Shukkei-En”
Rigoberto Gonzáles: “Anaberto Skypes with His Mother”
Jorie Graham: “Why”
Paul Guest: “User’s Guide to Physical Debilitation”
Kimiko Hahn: “The Unbearable Heart”
francine j. harris: “Katherine with the lazy eye, short, and not a good
poet.”
Brenda Hillman: “At the Solstice, a Yellow Fragment”
Tyehimba Jess: “Blood of my blood (walk away)”
Ilya Kaminsky: “Marina Tsvetaeva”
Donika Kelly: “Brood”
Yusef Komunyakaa: “Crack”
Dorianne Laux: “Arizona”
Dana Levin: “Working Methods”
Ada Limón: “Adaptation”
Cate Marvin: “My First Husband Was My Last”
Adrian Matejka: “On the B Side”
Airea D. Matthews: “Sexton Texts Tituba from a Bird Conservatory”
Eileen Myles: “My Boy’s Red Hat”
Craig Santos Perez: “The Pacific Written Tradition”
Robert Pinsky: “The Robots”
D. A. Powell: “chronic”
Roger Reeves: “Something about John Coltrane”
Jason Reynolds: “April 17, 1942 Jackie Robinson Gets His First Major
League Hit and We Still Us”
Erika Sánchez: “Saudade”
Diane Seuss: “Still-Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl”
Solmaz Sharif: “The Master’s House”
Cedar Sigo: “A Handbook of Poetic Forms”
Jake Skeets: “Maar”
Danez Smith: “waiting on you to die so i can be myself”
Patricia Smith: “Sweet Daddy”
Arthur Sze: “Sleepers”
Mary Szybist: “The Lushness of It”
Ocean Vuong: “Not Even”
The Cyborg Jillian Weise: “All the Littles in Exodus”
Monica Youn: “Greenacre”