Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

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Overview

Praise for earlier editions:"Unlike novelists and bad-boy memoirists, emerging poets are unlikely to sprawl on Oprah’s couch, date starlets, or rouse bidding wars. With an alert ear for new voices, this anthology offers a different kind of validation: that of being well heard. The result is a vibrant smorgasbord.... [Best New Poets] bears evidence of the insistent inquiries of self and the world that drive poetry."—Foreword

"[One] comes to realize that the adjectives ‘new’ and ‘emerging’ are mere technicalities in this instance. Although none of the poets included here have published a full-length book of poetry, many are MFA students or graduates, and chapbook authors, and most have already seen some of their poems published in the most renowned and exclusive journals in North America.... The result is a remarkably diverse mix of poems."—BookPleasures

"It's a nervy thing for an anthology to label itself Best New Poets, but once again this collection lives up to its name. It's a rich and readable selection, reflecting no party-line aesthetic, and attesting to the formidable promise of the emerging generation."—David Wojahn

In just three years Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work 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 some two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online competition. The work of the fifty writers represented here provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality of poetry as it’s being practiced today.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780976629627
Publisher: Distribution
Publication date: 11/29/2007
Series: Best New Poets
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Natasha Trethewey is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University. Her most recent book, Native Guard, received the Pultizer Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry, and has been honored with the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Lillian Smith Award for Poetry.

Table of Contents


Introduction     ix
A Poem That Thinks It Has Joined a Circus     1
The Liger     2
One of those questions     3
The Fern Seed     6
Vanitas Mundi     8
In the Jewish Cemetery     10
Six Ways of Looking at the Moon     12
Alba: The Archer Yi     15
Psalm xxv     16
The Steps of Montmartre     18
Bait     20
Tribute     22
Nesting     24
Brother     25
Freak Inside the Heart     26
Why I Don't Mention Flowers When Conversations With My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences     28
History Textbook, America     30
Notes on Sea and Shore     31
Pet Fungus in Our Zoo Rehearsing the National Requiem     40
Serotinous     42
Clock & Echo     44
Triptych for Francis Bacon     46
A Shortcut     48
Violin Shop     50
[Mesmerist]     52
Endings     54
Fortune     56
Landing     58
A Brief History of Sainthood     60
Betray     62
In the Garden     64
Biography of awe     65
Sister at the Airport     66
What Places, Things     68
Drinks over the Medusa Fossae     70
Walking Late     71
Carnivale, 1934     72
Reliquary     74
Peterbilt     76
Epithalamium     78
Blood     80
Gratitude     82
Ceremony     84
The First Request of Lazarus     85
Sacrifice     89
At Klack's, 1941     90
How I Know She's Coming Home     92
Pitch the Woo     94
Her Art     96
Grief Is Simple Interference: Endings Overlapping     98
Contributors' Notes     101
Acknowledgments     111
Participating Writing Programs     113
Participating Magazines     121
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