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list and get updates on new releases , deals , bonus content and other great books from Scribner and Simon & Schuster.  \nCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP  \nor visit us online to sign up at  \n[eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com](eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nForeword by David Lehman Introduction by Terrance Hayes Sherman Alexie,“Sonnet, with Pride”  \nRae Armantrout,“Control”JohnAshbery ,“Breezeway”Erin Belieu,“With Birds”  \nLinda Bierds,“On Reflection”  \nTraci Brimhall,“To Survive the Revolution”Lucie Brock-Broido,“Bird, Singing”  \nJericho Brown,“Host”  \nKurt Brown,“Pan del Muerto”  \nCAConrad,“wondering about our demise while driving to Disneyland with abandon”Anne Carson,“A Fragment ofIbykos Translated 6 Ways”  \nJoseph Ceravolo,“Hidden Bird”Henri Cole,“City Horse”  \nMichael Earl Craig,“The Helmet”  \nPhilip Dacey ,“Juilliard Cento Sonnet”  \nOlena Kalytiak Davis,“It Is to Have or Nothing”Kwame Dawes,“News from Harlem”  \nJoel Dias-Porter,“Elegy Indigo”  \nNatalie Diaz ,“These Hands, ifNot Gods”  \nMark Doty ,“Deep Lane”  \nSean Thomas Dougherty ,“The Blues Is a Verb”  \nRita Dove,“The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable ofNegritude”Camille Dungy ,“Conspiracy (to breathe together)”  \nCornelius Eady ,“Overturned”  \nVievee Francis,“Fallen”  \nRoss Gay ,“To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian”  \nEugene Gloria ,“Liner Notes for Monk”  \nRay Gonzalez ,“One El Paso, Two El Paso”  \nKathleen Graber,“The River Twice”  \nRosemary Griggs,“SCRIPT POEM”Adam Hammer,“As Like”  \nBob Hicok,“Blue prints”  \nLe Hinton,“No Doubt About It (I Gotta Get Another Hat)”Tony Hoagland,“Write Whiter”  \nMajorJackson,“OK Cupid”  \nA maud Jamaul Johnson,“L.A. Police ChiefDaryl Gates Dead at 83”Douglas Kearney ,“The Labor of Stagger Lee: Boar”  \nYusefKomunyakaa ,“Negritude”  \nHailey Leithauser,“In My Last Past Life”  \nLarry Levis,“Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze inside It”Gary Copeland Lilley ,“Sermon ofthe Dreadnaught”Frannie Lindsay ,“Elegy for My Mother”  \nPatricia Lockwood,“Rape Joke”  \nNathaniel Mackey ,“Oldtime Ending”Cate Marvin,“An Etiquette for Eyes”Jamaal May ,“Masticated Light”Shara McCallum,“Parasol”  \nMarty McConnell,“vivisection (you’re going to break my heart)”  \nValzhyna Mort,“Sylt I”  \nHarryette Mullen,“Selection from Tanka Diary”  \nEileen Myles,“Paint Me a Penis”  \nD. Nurkse,“Release from Stella Maris”  \nSharon Olds,“Stanley Kunitz Ode”  \nGregory Pardlo,“Wishing Well”  \nKiki Petrosino,“Story Problem”  \nD. A. Powell,“See You Later.”  \nRoger Reeves,“The Field Museum”  \nDonald Revell,“To Shakespeare”  \nPatrick Rosal,“You Cannot Go to the God You Love with Your Two Legs”  \nMary Ruefle,“Saga”  \nJon Sands,“Decoded”  \nSteve Scafidi,“ThankYou Lord for the Dark Ablaze”Frederick Seidel,“To Philip Roth, for His Eightieth”  \nDiane Seuss,“Free Beer”  \nSandra Simonds,“I Grade Online Humanities Tests”Jane Springer,“Forties War Widows, Stolen Grain”Corey Van Landingham,“During the Autopsy”  \nAfaa Michael Weaver,“Passing Through Indian Territory”  \nEleanor Wilner,“Sowing”  \nDavid Wojahn,“My Father’s Soul Departing”Greg Wrenn,“Detainment”  \nRobert Wrigley ,“Blessed Are”  \nJakeAdam York,“Calendar Days”  \nDean Young,“Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns”Rachel Zucker,“Mindful”  \nContributors’ Notes and Comments  \nMagazines Where the Poems Were First Published Acknowledgments  \nAbout Terrance Hayes and David Lehman  \nDavid Lehman was born in New York City. Educated at Stuyvesant High School and Columbia University, he spent two years as a Kellett Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, and worked as Lionel Trilling’s research assistant upon his return from England. He is the author of nine books of poetry, including New and Selected Poems (2013), Yeshiva Boys (2009), When a Woman Loves a Man (2005), The Daily Mirror (2000), and Valentine Place (1996), all from Scribner. 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