Best New Poets 2006

by Pankey, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780976629610
• ISBN10: 0976629615
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-06
• Publisher: Samovar Pr

Summary

The only publication of its kind, Best New Poets is an annual anthology of poetry by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the country's top literary magazines and writing programs, as well as nearly two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online competition. The fifty poems that made the final cut show, in dazzling fashion, how tomorrow's poets are writing today.For those concerned that current writing programs and periodicals are forcing young writers into the same mold this book offers exciting evidence to the contrary. The poems collected here display an astonishing range in both content and style, from the intensely lyrical to robust, often humorous, narratives. For the reader who wishes to explore the work of these budding writers but wonders where to begin, Best New Poets 2006 has already scoured the contemporary poetry landscape to discover some of the nation's most engaging and promising voices.Distributed for the Samovar Press in cooperation with Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia

Table of Contents

I am thinking of my first deer	p. 1
Making love to leopard man	p. 2
You have made a career of not listening	p. 4
13 stories	p. 5
Colors	p. 8
The problem with describing men	p. 11
Iron	p. 12
Topography with storm petrels & arctic tern	p. 14
The fire meadow	p. 19
The beekeeper's departure	p. 20
Dry Lake, Nevada, 1983	p. 22
What you see if you use water as a mirror	p. 24
How to bring down rain	p. 26
An unknown shore : variations on a fragment by oppen	p. 28
Wintering	p. 30
Response to an academic question	p. 40
History's sovereign	p. 41
Edema	p. 44
Solo in the snow	p. 45
In passing	p. 46
Bibliotalpidae	p. 48
Vol. L, Pg. 4242, from The World Book	p. 50
Lucifer's panties at Lowe's garden center	p. 52
Apology	p. 54
Chekhov's photograph	p. 55
Se Me Olvido Otra Vez	p. 60
Lighter	p. 62
Cul-de-sac Linguistics	p. 66
Double abecedarian : please give me ...	p. 68
Symphony for red	p. 70
Still life	p. 72
Remembering the bear	p. 73
Idle	p. 74
Spring forward	p. 76
Foreshadowing	p. 78
Mr. Robinson at the supermarket	p. 80
Tongue : variations	p. 82
The Catherine wheel	p. 86
Pilgrimage	p. 88
Self-portrait as suicide girl's skirt	p. 89
The romantic	p. 90
Zugzwang	p. 92
Nymphet	p. 94
Muse the drudge	p. 96
This could be it	p. 98
For the man who threw himself from the building	p. 100
Elegy for the end of the world	p. 101
Embalm	p. 102
Survey	p. 104
Bedful of Nebraskas	p. 106
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