The best of it : new and selected poems /

The best of it : new and selected poems /

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Author / Creator:Ryan, Kay.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Grove Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010.
Description:xiv, 270 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 21st century.
American poetry.
American poetry.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8053554
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ISBN:9780802119148 (hardcover) : $24.00
080211914X (hardcover) : $24.00
9780802145215 (pbk.) : $14.95
0802145213 (pbk.) : $14.95
Notes:More than 200 poems, selected by the poet.
Includes index.
Summary:The author is the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States from 2008-2010. Here are her own selections of more than two hundred poems, offering both longtime followers and new readers a retrospective of her earlier work as well as a generous selection of new poems.
Awards:2011 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2011.
Table of Contents:
  • New poems. Odd blocks
  • The edges of time
  • Bait goat
  • Train-track figure
  • We're building the ship as we sail it
  • Virga
  • Dogleg
  • Cloud
  • Ledge
  • Stations
  • Repetition
  • The pharaohs
  • Pentimenti
  • Bitter pill
  • Polish and balm
  • Retroactive
  • Galápago
  • Finish
  • Shift
  • Easter Island
  • Cut out for it
  • Spiderweb
  • Still life with lemons, oranges and a rose
  • After Zeno
  • Flamingo watching 1994. This life
  • Extraordinary lengths
  • Every painting by Chagall
  • The tables freed
  • Leaving spaces
  • Periphery
  • The mock ruin
  • Is it modest?
  • The things of the world
  • Emptiness
  • Slant
  • Apology
  • Vacation
  • A certain kind of Eden
  • No rest for the idle
  • The narrow path
  • When fishing fails
  • Say it straight
  • Glass slippers
  • How successful can she afford to be?
  • Repetition
  • Les natures profondement bonnes sont toujours indécises
  • So different
  • Half a loaf
  • Soft
  • Spring
  • I marveled at how generally I was aided
  • Impersonal
  • A certain meanness of culture
  • The test we set ourself
  • Force
  • Miners' canaries
  • The hinge of spring
  • Deer
  • Sheep in wolves' clothing
  • Snake charm
  • The palm at the end of the mind
  • Poetry is a kind of money
  • Persiflage
  • Masterworks of Ming
  • Breast birds
  • Paired things
  • Osprey
  • Turtle
  • Elephant rocks 1996. Living with stripes
  • Doubt
  • Mirage oases
  • Cirque
  • Chemistry
  • That vase of lilacs
  • Connections
  • Dew
  • Lacquer artist
  • All shall be restored
  • Full measure
  • Stars of Bethlehems
  • Crib
  • Bestiary
  • How birds sing
  • How a thought thinks
  • Intention
  • If the moon happened once
  • New clothes
  • Simply by growing larger
  • To the young anglerfish
  • Crustacean Island
  • Imaginary Eskimos
  • Outsider art
  • Caught
  • Les petites confitures
  • Why isn't it all more marked
  • Witness
  • Learning
  • Apogee
  • Against gravity
  • Lacunae
  • Intransigence
  • Age
  • Counsel
  • Insult
  • Silence
  • A cat/a future
  • Hope
  • Losses
  • The cabinet of curiosities
  • Her politeness
  • Bad patch
  • Swept up whole
  • Any morning
  • Relief
  • Part Midas
  • The woman who wrote too much
  • Sonnet to spring
  • A plain ordinary steel needle can float on pure water
  • Distance
  • The vessel and the cup
  • Wooden
  • The second
  • Heat
  • Poetry in translation
  • If she only had one minute
  • Say uncle 2000. Corners
  • Star block
  • Mockingbird
  • A hundred bolts of satin
  • The excluded animals
  • Blandeur
  • Composition
  • Patience
  • Coming and going
  • Nothing ventured
  • That will to divest
  • Winter fear
  • Grazing horses
  • Waste
  • Forgetting
  • The fourth wise man
  • Beasts
  • Gaps
  • The fabric of life
  • Help
  • The pass
  • The pieces that fall to earth
  • Don't look back
  • It's always darkest just before the dawn
  • Blunt
  • Diamonds
  • Herring
  • The silence islands
  • Cheshire
  • Yeses
  • Great thoughts
  • Test
  • Crown
  • Bad day
  • Among English verbs
  • Lime light
  • Why we must struggle
  • Drops in the bucket
  • The job
  • Dutch
  • Chemise
  • Deferred silence
  • Attention
  • Failure
  • Matrigupta
  • Weakness and doubt
  • Failure 2
  • Two more, and up goes the donkey
  • Water under the bridge
  • Your face will stick
  • And all becomes as before
  • The Niagara River 2005. Home to roost
  • Carrying a ladder
  • Sharks' teeth
  • Weak forces
  • The elephant in the room
  • A ball rolls on a point
  • The best of it
  • Chinese foot chart
  • Shipwreck
  • The other shoe
  • Atlas
  • He lit a fire with icicles
  • Rats' tails
  • Added significance
  • Chop
  • Felix crow
  • Desert reservoirs
  • Hailstorm
  • Expectations
  • Green hills
  • Rubbing lamps
  • Tenderness and rot
  • Tar babies
  • Tired blood
  • Theft
  • Ideal audience
  • Caps
  • Thin
  • Stardust
  • Blue China doorknob
  • Salvage
  • The light of interiors
  • Things shouldn't be so hard
  • The past
  • Reverse drama
  • Fake spots
  • Legerdemain
  • Hide and seek
  • Post-construction
  • Least action
  • Chart
  • No names
  • The material
  • The well or the cup
  • Late justice
  • Backward miracle
  • Green behind the ears
  • Thieves
  • Lighthouse keeping
  • Tune.
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