The Best American Poetry 2011

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Rally / Elizabeth Alexander.-- Valediction / Sherman Alexie.-- Soft money / Rae Armantrout.-- Postlude and prequel / John Ashbery. -- To my lover, convering the yird-swine / Julianna Baggott. -- When at a certain party in NYC / Erin Belieu. -- Banking / Cara Benson. -- Mine is the first rodeo, mine is the last accolade / Jaswinder Bolina. -- The Sink / Catherine Bowman. -- Off the Nollendorfplatz / Turner Cassity. -- Dead ass / Michael Cirelli. -- Here and there / Billy Collins. -- Three sonnets [Sonnet (division), Sonnet (motion), Sonnet (silenced)] / Olena Kalytiak Davis. -- Coffee / Matthew Dickman. -- From the lives of my friends / Michael Dickman. -- My strip club / Denise Duhamel. -- Emmett Till's glass-top casket / Cornelius Eady. -- Stays / Jill Alexander Essbaum. -- In November / Alan Feldman. -- The Amy poems ("Amy survives another apocalypse" and "You're really starting to suck, Amy") / Farrah Field. -- Morning on the island / Carolyn Forché. -- Everything is nervous / Beckian Fritz Goldberg.-- The space traveler talks frankly about desire / Benjamin S. Grossberg. -- Poppies / Jennifer Grotz. -- August notebook : a death / Robert Hass. -- Lighthead's guide to the galaxy / Terrance Hayes. -- Just as, after a point Job cried out / K.A. Hays. -- Having intended to merely ick on an oil company, the poems goes awry / Bob Hicok. -- The Cloudy vase / Jane Hirshfield. -- God's promises / Paul Hoover. -- The Funeral sermon / Andrew Hudgins. -- From Holding company ("bereft", "Lying", "The Giant swing ending in a split," " Narcissus") / Major Jackson. -- Notebooks / Allison Joseph. -- Andrew Wyeth, painter, dies at 91 / L. S. Klatt. -- Kiri Te Kanawa singing " Mio Babbino Caro" / Jennifer Knox. -- A Voice on an answering machine / Yusef Komunyakaa. -- Snow / James Longenbach. -- The Pilgrim is bridled and bespectacled / Bridget Lowe. -- The Complaint against Roney Laswell's rooster / Maurice Manning. -- Pears / Morton Marcus. -- Dear gaybashers / Jill McDonough. -- Elegy with construction sounds, water, fish / Erika Meitner. -- The Side project / Paul Muldoon. -- Word / Jude Nutter. -- Pillow talk / Jeni Olin. -- Cogitatio Mortis / Eric Pankey. -- Family math / Alan Michael Parker. -- Postcards from her alternate lives / Catherine Pierce. -- Horn / Robert Pinsky. -- Angels / Katha Pollitt. -- Bugcatching at twilight / D.A. Powell. -- To my father on the anniversary of his death / Gretchen Steele Pratt. -- Even more aphorism and ten-second essays from vectors 3.0 / James Richardson. -- What my heart is turning / Anne Marie Rooney. -- Provenance / Mary Ruefle. -- Ghost aurora / David St. John. -- The Afterlife / Mary Jo Salter. -- The Smallest / James Schuyler. -- Nineteen thirty-eight / Charles Simic. -- Nowhere / Matthew Buckly Smith. -- Motown crown / Patricia Smith. -- Dream IV / Gerald Stern. -- Pantoum for the imperceptible / Bianca Stone. -- The Poem of the Spanish poet / Mark Strand. -- Thirteen months / Mary Jo Thompson. -- Elegy / Natasha Trethewey. -- Drunk at a party / Lee Upton. -- Thoreau and the lightning / David Wagoner. -- The Latch / Rosanna Warren. -- Time pieces / Rachel Wetzsteon. -- Ecclesiaste II:I / Richard Wilbur. -- A Hundred bones / C.K. Williams. -- Mix tape to be brought to her in rehab / David Wojahn. -- Toadstools / Charles Wright. -- Cycladic idyll : an apologia / Stephen Yenser.

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