The best of the best American poetry: 25th anniversary edition

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Terminal nostalgia / Sherman Alexie -- Garbage / A.R. Ammons -- Soft money / Rae Armantrout -- Wakefulness / John Ashbery -- Bored / Margaret Atwood -- Injunction / Frank Bidart -- Feminine intuition / Stephanie Brown -- Three oranges / Charles Bukowski -- The life of towns / Anne Carson -- Self-portrait as four styles of Pompeian wall painting / Henri Cole -- Dharma / Billy Collins -- En famille / Robert Creeley -- You art a scholar, Horatio, speak to it / Olena Kalytiak Davis -- Our generation / Carl Dennis -- Skin / Susan Dickman -- Desire / Stephen Dobyns -- Difference / Mark Doty -- All souls' / Rita Dove -- How it will end / Denise Duhamel -- The imagine / Stephen Dunn -- Powers of Congress / Alice Fulton -- Salutations to Fernando Pessoa / Allen Ginsberg -- Landscape / Louise Glück -- Manifest destiny / Jorie Graham -- Safe / Linda Gregerson -- The war / Linda Gregg -- Cafeteria in Boston / Thom Gunn -- Prophecy / Donald Hall -- The opaque / Mark Halliday -- Bush's war / Robert Hass -- A house is not a home / Terrance Hayes -- The polar circle / Lyn Hejinian -- Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry / Bob Hicok -- Phone booth / Brenda Hillman -- Man on a fire escape / Edward Hirsch -- In praise of coldness / Jane Hirshfield -- In a quiet town by the sea / Tony Hoagland -- The see-saw / John Hollander -- Like most revelations / Richard Howard -- 9-11-01 / Fanny Howe -- Magdalene -- the seven devils / Marie Howe -- [etc.];100 poems selected by Robert Pinsky that represent each volume in The best American poetry series.