The Best American Poetry 2014 (30 page)

Southwest Review
, ed. Willard Spiegelman. PO Box 750374, Dallas, TX 75275-0374.

Spillway
, ed. Susan Terris.
spillway.org

Terminus Magazine
, eds. Katie Chaple and Travis Denton. PO Box 54423, Atlanta, GA 30308.

The Threepenny Review
, ed. Wendy Lesser. PO Box 9131, Berkeley, CA 94709.

Tin House
, poetry ed. Matthew Dickman. PO Box 10500, Portland, OR 97210.

Tongue
, eds. Adam Wiedewitsch, Colin Cheney, and R. A. Villanueva.
tongueoftheworld.org

Vinyl Poetry
, poetry ed. Phillip B. Williams.
vinylpoetry.com

Willow Springs
, poetry ed. Kristin Gotch.
willowsprings.ewu.edu

The series editor thanks Mark Bibbins for his invaluable assistance. Warm thanks go also to Nora Brooks and Stacey Harwood; to Glen Hartley and Lynn Chu of Writers' Representatives; and to Daniel Burgess, David Stanford Burr, Daniel Cuddy, Ashley Gilliam, Erich Hobbing, and Gwyneth Stansfield at Scribner.

“Priapus” by Alan Dugan (1923–2003), which Terrance Hayes quotes in his introduction, is reprinted with permission. The poem was handed out for critique in the summer of 1992 at the Castle Hill workshop that Dugan ran from 1976 through 2001. Alan Feldman uncovered the poem—in Dugan's hand, not a Xerox—among the papers his daughter, Rebecca, brought home from the workshop. For permission to use the poem, and for their various efforst to recover and disseminate it, we are grateful to Keith Althaus and Ezra Shahn, co-executors, estate of Judith Shahn, as well as to Alan Feldman, John Skoyles, and the editors of
Ploughshares
.

For permission to reproduce the diagram by Jacques Maritain that appears in Terrance Hayes's introduction, we are grateful to Princeton University Press: Jacques Maritain,
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry.
© 1953 Trustees of the National Gallery of Art. Reproduced by permission of Princeton University Press.

Grateful acknowledgment is made of the magazines in which these poems first appeared and the magazine editors who selected them. A sincere attempt has been made to locate all copyright holders. Unless otherwise noted, copyright to poems is held by the individual poets.

Sherman Alexie, “Sonnet, with Pride” from
What I've Stolen, What I've Earned
. © 2013 by Sherman Alexie. Reprinted by permission of Hanging Loose Press. First appeared in
Hanging Loose
.

Rae Armantrout, “Control” from
A Public Space
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

John Ashbery, “Breezeway” from
The New Yorker
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Erin Belieu, “With Birds” from
The Normal School
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Linda Bierds, “On Reflection” from
The Atlantic
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Traci Brimhall, “To Survive the Revolution” from
The Kenyon Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Lucie Brock-Broido, “Bird, Singing” from
Stay, Illusion
. © 2013 by Lucie Brock-Broido. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. First appeared in
Boston Review
.

Jericho Brown, “Host” from
Vinyl Poetry
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Kurt Brown, “Pan Del Muerto” from
Terminus Magazine
. Reprinted by permission.

CAConrad, “wondering about our demise while driving to Disneyland with abandon” from
Denver Quarterly
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Anne Carson, “A Fragment of Ibykos Translated 6 Ways” from
London Review of Books
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Joseph Ceravolo, “Hidden Bird” from
Collected Poems
. © 2013 by the Estate of Joseph Ceravolo. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. Also appeared in
The Nation
.

Henri Cole, “City Horse” from
The Threepenny Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Michael Earl Craig, “The Helmet” from
jubilat
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Philip Dacey, “Juilliard Cento Sonnet” from
New Letters
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Olena Kalytiak Davis, “It Is to Have or Nothing” from
Green Mountains Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Kwame Dawes, “News from Harlem” from
Hayden's Ferry Review
and
Poetry Daily
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Joel Dias-Porter, “Elegy Indigo” from
Brilliant Corners
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Natalie Diaz, “These Hands, if Not Gods” from
Poets.org
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Mark Doty, “Deep Lane” from
Ploughshares
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Sean Thomas Dougherty, “The Blues Is a Verb” from
Spillway
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Rita Dove, “The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude” from
Poet Lore
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Camille Dungy, “Conspiracy (to breathe together)” from
The American Poetry Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Cornelius Eady, “Overturned” from
Terminus Magazine
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Vievee Francis, “Fallen” from
Prairie Schooner
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Ross Gay, “To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian” from
The American Poetry Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Eugene Gloria, “Liner Notes for Monk” from
Tongue
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Ray Gonzalez, “One El Paso, Two El Paso” from
Barrow Street
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Kathleen Graber, “The River Twice” from
Painted Bride Quarterly
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Rosemary Griggs, “SCRIPT POEM” from
MAKE Literary Magazine
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Adam Hammer, “As Like” from
Pleiades
. Reprinted by permission.

Bob Hicok, “Blue prints” from
The Believer
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Le Hinton, “No Doubt About It (I Gotta Get Another Hat)” from
Little Patuxent Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Tony Hoagland, “Write Whiter” from
The Paris Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Major Jackson, “OK Cupid” from
Tin House
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Amaud Jamaul Johnson, “L.A. Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83” from
Crazyhorse
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Douglas Kearney, “The Labor of Stagger Lee: Boar” from
Poetry
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Yusef Komunyakaa, “Negritude” from
Gris-Gris
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Hailey Leithauser, “In My Last Past Life” from
Southwest Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Larry Levis, “Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze inside It” from
Blackbird
. Reprinted by permission.

Gary Copeland Lilley, “Sermon of the Dreadnaught” from
MiPOesias
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Frannie Lindsay, “Elegy for My Mother” from
Our Vanishing
. Reprinted by permission of Red Hen Press. First appeared in
FIELD
.

Patricia Lockwood, “Rape Joke” from
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
. © 2014 by Patricia Lockwood. Reprinted by permission of Penguin USA. First appeared on
The Awl
.

Nathaniel Mackey, “Oldtime Ending” from
Poet Lore
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Cate Marvin, “An Etiquette for Eyes” from
Willow Springs
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Jamaal May, “Masticated Light” from
Hum
. © 2013 by Jamaal May. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Alice James Books. First appeared in
Ploughshares
.

Shara McCallum, “Parasol” from
The Southern Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Marty McConnell, “vivisection (you're going to break my heart)” from
The Carolina Quarterly
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Valzhyna Mort, “Sylt I” from
Collected Body
. © 2011 by Valzhyna Mort. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press. Also appeared in
New Letters
.

Harryette Mullen, “Selection from Tanka Diary” from
Urban Tumbleweed
. © 2013 by Harryette Mullen. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Graywolf Press. First appeared in
Harvard Review
.

Eileen Myles, “Paint Me a Penis” from
Green Mountains Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

D. Nurkse, “Release from Stella Maris” from
FIELD
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Sharon Olds, “Stanley Kunitz Ode” from
Harvard Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Gregory Pardlo, “Wishing Well” from
Painted Bride Quarterly
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Kiki Petrosino, “Story Problem” from
The Baffler
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

D. A. Powell, “See You Later.” from
The Iowa Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Roger Reeves, “The Field Museum” from
The Cincinnati Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Donald Revell, “To Shakespeare” from
The Literary Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Patrick Rosal, “You Cannot Go to the God You Love with Your Two Legs” from
Gulf Coast
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Mary Ruefle, “Saga” from
Court Green
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Jon Sands, “Decoded” from
Rattle
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Steve Scafidi, “Thank You Lord for the Dark Ablaze” from
ABZ
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Frederick Seidel, “To Philip Roth, for His Eightieth” from
London Review of Books
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Diane Seuss, “Free Beer” from
The Missouri Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Sandra Simonds, “I Grade Online Humanities Tests” from
The Awl
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Jane Springer, “Forties War Widows, Stolen Grain” from
Birmingham Poetry Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Corey Van Landingham, “During the Autopsy” from
Antidote
. © 2013 by Corey Van Landingham. Reprinted by permission of Ohio State University Press. First appeared in
The Southern Review
.

Afaa Michael Weaver, “Passing Through Indian Territory” from
The New Yorker
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Eleanor Wilner, “Sowing” from
The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

David Wojahn, “My Father's Soul Departing” from
AGNI
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Greg Wrenn, “Detainment” from
Centaur
. © 2013 by Greg Wrenn. Reprinted by permission of The University of Wisconsin Press. First appeared in
Cream City Review
.

Robert Wrigley, “Blessed Are” from
Southern Indiana Review
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Jake Adam York, “Calendar Days” from
The Missouri Review
. Reprinted by permission.

Dean Young, “Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns” from
Poetry
. Reprinted by permission of the poet.

Rachel Zucker, “Mindful” from
The Pedestrians
. © 2014 by Rachel Zucker. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Wave Books. First appeared in
The Kenyon Review
.