THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2008
Guest Editor: CHARLES WRIGHT

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Tom Andrews, Evening Song
Appeared in: Rivendell
Ralph Angel, Exceptions and Melancholies
Appeared in: Runes
Rae Armantrout, Framing
Appeared in: The Nation
John Ashbery, Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees
Appeared in: The New York Review of Books
Joshua Beckman, * * *
Appeared in: Bird Dog
Marvin Bell, Poseur
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Charles Bernstein, Ku(na)hay
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Ciaran Berry, Electrocuting an Elephant
Appeared in: Crazyhorse
Frank Bidart, If See No End In Is
Appeared in: Poetry
Robert Bly, Wanting Sumptuous Heavens
Appeared in: The New Yorker
John Casteen, Night Hunting
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Laura Cronk, Entering
Appeared in: Lyric
Kate Daniels, Homage to Calvin Spotswood
Appeared in: storySouth
Lydia Davis, Men
Appeared in: 32 Poems
Erica Dawson, Parallax
Appeared in: Sewanee Theological Review
Cornelius Eady, Handymen
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Moira Egan, Millay Goes Down
Appeared in: Prairie Schooner
Peter Everwine, Aubade in Autumn
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Carolyn Forche, The Museum of Stones
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Chris Forhan, Rock Polisher
Appeared in: New England Review
John Gallaher, In the Book of the Disappearing Book
Appeared in: LIT
James Galvin, Girl Without her Nightgown
Appeared in: Verse
Louise Gluck, Threshing
Appeared in: The American Scholar
Jorie Graham, Futures
Appeared in: The London Review of Books
Robert Hass, I Am Your Waiter Tonight And My Name Is Dmitri
Appeared in: Volt
Bob Hicok, O my pa-pa
Appeared in: Poetry
Brenda Hillman, Phone Booth
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Tony Hoagland, Muchness
Appeared in: Poetry
Garrett Hongo, Cane Fire
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Richard Howard, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus by Castor and Pollux
Appeared in: Five Points
Mark Jarman, Snoring
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
George Kalamars, Francis Ponge Is on Fire
Appeared in: Sentence
Mary Karr, Recuperation From The Dead Love Through Christ And Isaac Babel
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Maxine Kumin, Though He Tarry
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Adrie Kusserow, Skull Trees, South Sudan
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Alex Lemon, from Halleluja Blackout
Appeared in: AGNI
Philip Levine, Of Love and Other Disasters
Appeared in: The New Yorker
J.D. McClatchy, Resignation
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Davis McCombs, The Last Wolf in Edmonson County
Appeared in: Poetry
W. S. Merwin, A Letter to Su Tong P'o
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Susan Mitchell, Ritual
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Paul Muldoon, The Water Cooler
Appeared in: The New Yorker
D. Nurkse, The Gate of Abraham
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Debra Nystrom, Every Night
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Meghan O'Rourke, The Window at Arles
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
Ron Padgett, Method, or Kenneth Koch
Appeared in: The Sienese Shredder
Michael Palmer, The Classical Study (4)
Appeared in: Fulcrum
D. A. Powell, Cosmos, late blooming
Appeared in: Subtropics
Alberto Rios, The Rain That Falls Here
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Tim Ross, then let fall your horrible pleasure
Appeared in: Gulf Coast
John Rybicki, Three Lanterns
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Ira Sadoff, American
Appeared in: Brilliant Corners
Sherod Santos, World News
Appeared in: Raritan
Frederick Seidel, Evening Man
Appeared in: The New York Review of Books
Charles Simic, Listen
Appeared in: The New Yorker
R.T.Smith, Pentecost
Appeared in: Notre Dame Review
Patti Smith, Tara
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Dave Snyder, Hexagon: on Truth
Appeared in: Quarterly West
Lisa Ross Sparr, Cricket
Appeared in: Meridian
David St. John, The Aurora of the New Mind
Appeared in: The Southern Review
Kathryn Starbuck, The Shoe
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Alan Sullivan, Divide and Conquer
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Chad Sweeney, The Sentence
Appeared in: New American Writing
Mary Szybist, The Troubadours etc.
Appeared in: Meridian
James Tate, National Security
Appeared in: Volt
Natasha Trethewey, On Captivity
Appeared in: Five Points
Lee Upton, Thomas Hardy
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Dara Wier, Faithful
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
C. K. Williams, Light
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Franz Wright, Passing Scenes (While Reading Basho)
Appeared in: Field
Lynn Xu, [Language exists because]
Appeared in: Phoebe
C. Dale Young, Sepsis
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
David Young, The Dead from Iraq
Appeared in: ABZ:A Poetry Magazine
Dean Young, No Forgiveness Ode
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Kevin Young, from Book of Hours
Appeared in: Poetry

 

 
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