American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology (Pitt Poetry Series)

American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suárez, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others. Throughout its forty-year history, the Pitt Poetry Series has provided a voice for the diversity that is American poetry, representing poets from many backgrounds without allegiance to any one school or style. American Poetry Now is a true representation of contemporary American poetry. Ed Ochester, series editor for nearly thirty years, has assembled a quintessential selection-along with biographies and photos, an enlightening introduction, and a suggested list for further reading, all in a highly accessible format. American Poetry Now is a sweeping anthology that will delight poetry fans, students, teachers, and general readers alike. Overview: American Poetry Now Is A Comprehensive Collection Of The Best Work From The Renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since Its Inception In 1967, The Series Has Been A Vehicle For America's Finest Contemporary Poets. The Series List Includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate And Pulitzer Prize Winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suarez, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, And Many Others. Throughout Its Forty-year History, The Pitt Poetry Series Has Provided A Voice For The Diversity That Is American Poetry, Representing Poets From Many Backgrounds Without Allegiance To Any One School Or Style. American Poetry Now Is A True Representation Of Contemporary American Poetry. Ed Ochester, Series Editor For Nearly Thirty Years, Has Assembled A Quintessential Selection-along With Biographies And Photos, An Enlightening Introduction, And A Suggested List For Further Reading, All In A Highly Accessible Format. American Poetry Now Is A Sweeping Anthology That Will Delight Poetry Fans, Students, Teachers, And General Readers Alike. Introduction -- Maggie Anderson: -- Spitting In The Leaves -- Heart Fire -- Long Story -- Black Dog Goes To Art Colony -- Self-portrait -- Dorothy Barresi: -- Post-rapture Diner -- Nude Detective, A Complaint -- Sock Hop With The New Critics -- Glass Dress -- Body Says -- Quan Barry: -- Exiled (from Child Of The Enemy) -- Intermurals -- Tradition -- Crossing The South China Sea As Analgesia -- Emmett Till's Open Casket As La Pieta -- Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary As Water Into Fire -- Jan Beatty: -- Mad River -- Ravenous Blue -- Waitress' Instructions On Tipping Or Get The Cash Up And Don't Waste My Time -- After Sex On A Train -- My Father Teaches Me To Dream -- Going Deep For Jesus -- Zen Of Tipping -- Machine Shop Of Love -- Robin Becker: -- New Egypt -- Now -- Ok, Tucker -- Adult Child -- Why We Fear The Amish -- Spiritual Morning -- Bath -- Story I Like To Tell -- Richard Blanco: -- America -- Silver Sands -- El Cucubano --^ Olivia Serves Wallace Stevens A Cuban Egg -- Christopher Bursk: -- Dr Livingstone, I Presume -- Barbarians -- One Nation, Indivisible, Under God -- World Of Business -- Anthony Butts: -- Blue Movie -- Eros And Thanatos -- Trying To Be Human -- Forgiveness -- Heritage -- Lorna Dee Cervantes: -- Emplumada -- Meeting Mescalito At Oak Hill Cemetery -- Beneath The Shadow Of The Freeway -- Poem For The Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, An Intelligent, Well-read Person Could Believe In The War Between Races -- Wanda Coleman: -- Lady Sings The Blues 1969 -- Los Angeles Nocturne -- Soul Traveler -- Baptism -- Exoteric -- Billy Collins: -- I Chop Some Parsley While Listening To Art Blakey's -- Version Of Three Blind Mice -- Shoveling Snow With Buddha -- This Much I Do Remember -- Japan -- Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes -- Death Of The Hat -- Mark Cox: -- Pail Of Eggs -- Sill -- Like A Simile -- Style -- Natural Causes -- After Rain -- Ashes, Ashes -- Jim Daniels: -- Raw October --^ Digger Pays Off The Mortgage -- Digger's Territory -- Still Lives: Sweat -- Trouble At The Drive-in -- Blessing The House -- Chard Deniord: -- Raiding The Bees -- To Hear And Hear -- Frog -- Whales -- Night Mowing -- Through A Train Window -- Incident At The Catholic Worker -- I See Them Now -- Toi Derricotte: -- Blackbottom -- Boy At The Paterson Falls -- In An Urban School -- Allen Ginsburg -- Struggle -- Grace Paley Reading -- When My Father Was Beating Me -- Denise Duhamel: -- Kinky -- Sex With A Famous Poet -- Difference Between Pepsi And Pope -- Nick At Nite -- Problem With Woody Allen -- Noah And Joan -- Russell Edson: -- Secret Graveyard -- Key -- Baby Pianos -- Alfresco Moment -- Message -- Square Wheel -- Angels -- Bath -- Thus Spake Polly -- Wings -- Lynn Emanuel: -- Inside Gertrude Stein -- Halfway Through The Book I'm Writing -- Homage To Sharon Stone -- Portrait Of The Author -- Peter Everwine: -- Drinking Cold Water -- Perhaps It's As You Say -- Sorting The Tools --^ In The Last Days -- Poem Beginning With A Line From Leonardo Sinisgalli -- From The Meadow -- Heart -- Edward Field: -- Frankenstein -- Nancy -- Unwanted -- Tailspin -- In Praise Of My Prostate -- Lost, Dancing -- Garbo -- Daisy Fried: -- She Didn't Mean To Do It -- Story Having To Do With Walt Whitman -- Whatever Works -- Aunt Leah, Aunt Sophie And The Negro Painter -- Barbara Hamby: -- Ode To American English -- Mockingbird On The Buddha -- Ode To The Potato -- Fang -- Ode To Rock 'n' Roll -- Olde To My 1977 Toyota -- C G Hanzlicek: -- Egg -- Cave -- Blue Light -- Moment -- Bob Hicok: -- Twins -- Team Effort -- My New Neighbor -- Beasts -- Full Flight -- Gray Jacobik: -- Pollock's Paintings -- Shabby Truth -- Breasts -- Lizard Man -- Julia Kasdorf: -- What I Learned From My Mother -- Mennonites -- When Our Women Go Crazy -- First Gestures -- Eve's Striptease -- Sun Lover -- Sinning -- Jesse Lee Kercheval: -- Enter Mecca -- Not -- What Max, Age Two, Remembers About Spain --^ Great Molasses Flood -- Etheridge Knight -- Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insane -- He Sees Through Stone -- Idea Of Ancestry -- Warden Said To Me The Other Day -- Feeling Fucked Up -- Welcome Back, Mr Knight: Love Of My Life -- Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine -- Rehabilitation & Treatment In The Prisons Of America -- Sandra Kohler: -- Game -- Pond -- End Of The Gulf War -- Tea -- Write -- Ted Kooser: -- Selecting A Reader -- Frozen Stream -- Very Old -- How To Make Rhubarb Wine -- Widow -- Fort Robinson -- Shooting A Farmhouse -- Flying At Night -- Laundry -- At The Office Early -- Year's End -- Larry Levis: -- Winter Stars -- My Story In A Late Style Of Fire -- Oldest Living Thing In L A -- Smell Of The Sea -- Shara Mccallum: -- Sunset On The Wharf -- Jamaica, October 18, 1972 -- What My Mother Taught Me -- Calypso -- What The Oracle Said -- Offering -- Facing It -- Peter Meinke: -- Sonnet On The Death Of The Man Who Invented Plastic -- Roses -- Untitled -- Poet, Trying To Surprise God -- Liquid Paper -- Atomic Pantoum -- Zinc Fingers -- Meditation On You And Wittgenstein -- Preacher, Said The General -- Malena Morling: -- If There Is Another World -- Happiness -- Gone -- Simply Lit -- Seemed Pleased -- In The Yellow Head Of A Tulip -- Wake -- Kathleen Norris: -- Perennials --^ Young Lovers With Pizza -- Eve Of St Agnes In The High School Gym -- How I Came To Drink My Grandmother's Piano -- Afterward -- Emily In Choir -- Sharon Olds: -- Satan Says -- Quake Theory -- Indictment Of Senior Officers -- Sisters Of Sexual Treasure -- Station -- Language Of The Brag -- Seventh Birthday Of The First Child -- Unjustly Punished Child -- Mother -- Alicia Suskin Ostriker: -- Leafpile -- Question Of Time -- Everywoman Her Own Theology -- Dogs At Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz -- What Was Lost -- Fix -- Minnie Bruce Pratt: -- Blue Cup -- Learning To Write -- From Crime Against Nature -- From Crime Against Nature -- Walking Back Up Depot Street -- Chopping Peppers -- Paisley Rekdal -- Pornography -- Dear Lacuna, Dear Lard: -- Ode -- Richard Shelton: -- Creep -- If I Were A Dog -- Little Towns Of West Texas -- In Search Of History -- Politics Last Summer -- Miranda Of The Sorrows -- Reginald Shepherd: -- Maritime -- Plague For Kit Marlowe -- World --^ Semantics At Four P M -- Cathy Song: -- Day Has Come When My Mother -- By Beautiful Daughter Calls To Tell Me It's Snowing -- Souls We Carry Hunger For Our Light -- I Hated The Hairy Ones -- Cloud Moving Hands -- Virgil Suarez: -- In The House Of White Light -- Recitative After Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson Of Dr Nicolaes Tulp -- Isla -- American Drag Rhapsody: J Edgar Hoover In Havana -- La Florida -- Purple Finch -- What Of Rocks -- Ronald Wallace: -- Hot Property -- Sestina For The House -- Nightline: An Interview With The General -- Fielding -- Friday Night Fights -- Off The Record -- In The Amish Bakery -- Pantoum: The Sturdy Of Worry -- Man Sleeping -- Blessings -- Afaa Michael Weaver: -- Ego -- Sidney Bechet -- Picnic, An Homage To Civil Rights -- Shaw Brothers -- 19 Pages With No Promotion -- David Wojahn: -- E-mail (from Dithyramb And Lamentation) -- Mystery Train: Janis Joplin Leaves Port Arthur For Points West, 1964 (from Mystery Train: A Sequence) --^ It's Only Rock 'n' Roll But I Like It: The Fall Of Saigon (from Mystery Train: A Sequence) -- Assassination Of John Lennon As Depicted By The Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987 (from Mystery Train: A Sequence) -- Excavation Photo -- Stammer -- Unclean Spirits Weat Out Of The Man, And Entered Into Swine -- Homage To Blind Willie Johnson -- Dean Young: -- Chapped Lips -- Dog Toy -- Sources Of The Delaware -- Lives Of The Olympians -- Lives Of The Robots -- From Collected Poems Of Muriel Rukeyser -- Poem -- Bill (from Book Of The Dead) -- Bubble Of Air -- Children, The Sandbar, That Summer -- Conjugation Of The Paramecium -- In Our Time -- Endless -- What Do We See? -- Myth -- From Breaking Open (rational Man) -- Looking At Each Other -- Suggestions For Further Reading Edited By Ed Ochester. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 363-376).

American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suárez, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others.