Kevin Young on The Best American Poetry 2011

The Best American Poetry 2011 By Kevin Young

Kevin Young on The Best American Poetry 2011
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    Kevin Young is an American poet heavily influenced by the poet Langston Hughes and the art of Jean Michel Basquiat. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (1992 1994), and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective.Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Young is the author of Most Way Home, To Repel Ghosts, Jelly Roll, Black Maria, For The Confederate Dead, Dear Darkness, and editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; Blues Poems; Jazz Poems and John Berrymans Selected Poems.His Black Cat Blues, originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, was included in The Be Kevin Young is an American poet heavily influenced by the poet Langston Hughes and the art of Jean Michel Basquiat. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (1992 1994), and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective.Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Young is the author of Most Way Home, To Repel Ghosts, Jelly Roll, Black Maria, For The Confederate Dead, Dear Darkness, and editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; Blues Poems; Jazz Poems and John Berryman's Selected Poems.His Black Cat Blues, originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, was included in The Best American Poetry 2005. Young's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and other literary magazines. In 2007, he served as guest editor for an issue of Ploughshares. He has written on art and artists for museums in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.His 2003 book of poems Jelly Roll was a finalist for the National Book Award.After stints at the University of Georgia and Indiana University, Young now teaches writing at Emory University, where he is the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing, as well as the curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, a large collection of first and rare editions of poetry in English. The Best American Poetry 2011

    e not too post modern It could perhaps be argued that Young played it a little too safe I was familiar with most of the poets and would have liked being introduced to a few new faces I wonder if the published was looking for this some of the last years seemed to push the opposite direction and were less successful with the reading public Perhaps they needed to bring back the readership It worked for me 240 The Best American Poetry 2011Kevin Young is an American poet heavily influenced by the poet Langston Hughes and the art of Jean Michel Basquiat Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992.

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    But there will always be a niche for everything We must as poets work to bring poetry into the hands of the many Its beauty can no longer be confined and scorned. Poetry The Best American Poetry 2011 honda Masterpieces 8 Dead Ass by Michael CirelliIn November by Alan FeldmanThe Cloudy Vase by Jane HirshfieldNotebooks by Allison JosephAngels by Katha PollittThe Smallest by James SchuylerMotown Crown by Patricia SmithThe Poem of the Spanish Poet by Mark StrandMasterful 11 Valediction by Sherman AlexieWhen at a Certain Party in NYC by Erin BelieuHere and There by Billy CollinsMy Strip Club by Denise DuhamelPoppies by Jennifer GrotzAndrew Wyeth.

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    Dies at 91 by L S KlattThe Complaint Against Roney Laswell s Rooster by Maurice ManningEven More Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays by James RichardsonProvenance by Mary RuefleThe Afterlife by Mary Jo SalterElegy by Natasha TretheweyMasters Candidates 10 Three Sonnets by Olena Kalytiak DavisEverything is Nervous by Beckian Fritz GoldbergDear Gaybashers by Jill McDonoughWord by Jude NutterCogitatio Mortis by Eric PankeyNineteen Thirty Eight by Charles SimicThoreau and the Lightning by David WagonerTime Pieces by Rachel WetzsteonA Hundred Bones by C K WilliamsMix Tape to Be Brought to Her in Rehab by David WojahnOverall.

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    If not all 240 I thought for a long time about whether I wanted to review this or if I had the capacity to do so I feel like there are hordes of poetry fans and critical readers who are waiting in the wings to tell me I m an idiot and that I don t understand poetry Anthologies are always hit and miss for people it s near impossible to contain something meaningful to every reader but this collection had enough poems that truly hit it out of the park for me that I felt I should at least write something about it Is this the definitive collection of the best poems of the year I really couldn t say I am no authority I ll leave that to other people to debate and just speak to my reading experience Thankfully.

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    There are a few really wonderful poems here and a lot that are not so wonderful and many that I m sure many people would say not even good The catch of course is that what I think were the good ones may not be the ones you d pick Ain t it the truth I seem to have a bias against long poems so wouldn t even try to comment on them Weirdly I thought that most of the poems whose authors last names begin with P were quite good e. EPub The Best American Poetry 2011 archive You can read it here in the New England Review 240 One of the only Best American Poetries I ve read in one sitting It was nice to see a collection of work from younger authors many born in the 60s 70s and even the 80s I also appreciated seeing some names I ve long thought should get recognition including Allison Joseph There are some nice thought provoking pieces in here my favorite being Cara Benson s Banking This installment also has the distinction of containing a long poem I actually think was worth the space Robert Hass August Notebook A Death I m glad this important series has continued on into the new decade 240 this is the second book I read of this series dating back to 1986 I believe. The Best American Poetry 2011gif it shows you the roams and extents of creativity and beauty modern poetry can be it extends to endless topics and fields and as laid out in the most creative original ways and it was a pleasure to read. The Best American Poetry 2011 kindle app so far in the year 2012 this is one of my favorite reads and I intend on reading all of the 26 books 240 I love these books I have read most of them People s tastes in poetry vary so widely that there will never be any consensus about what constitutes the best That s the advantage of having a different guest editor for each issue Usually if you like the work of the guest editor you will like that editors picks I do enjoy reading Kevin Young s work so I found many of the poems in this anthology moving and or memorable They are for the most part what they call accessible I appreciate language that is vivid or surprising or just sounds cool but I only really enjoy it if I am able to understand what I am reading and this anthology had enough storytelling and enough plain language that it kept my interest One of the things I enjoy most about the Best anthologies is the author notes at the back The academic credentials are dry but the authors each explain what sparked their poem what they were thinking when they wrote it and how it came to have the shape it has Theory says that the poem should stand on its own as a work of art but in practice knowing the background almost always enhances my enjoyment of the poem 240 I really appreciate what the annual Best American Poetry tries to do One poet is given the honor task of selecting poems published in various publications books journals during the previous year I have never read one from end to end but have perused them reading what I was interested in I actually read this one just past halfway I bowled my way through a couple selections was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University 1992 1994 and received his MFA from Brown University While in Boston and Providence he was part of the African American poetry group The Dark Room Collective. Book The Best American Poetry 2011 summary Born in Lincoln Nebraska Young is the author of Most Way Home To Repel Ghosts Jelly Roll Black Maria For The Confederate Dead Dear Darkness and editor of Giant Steps The New Generation of African American Writers Blues Poems Jazz Poems and John Berrymans Selected Poems. EBook The Best American Poetry 2011 toyota His Black Cat Blues originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review was included in The Be Kevin Young is an American poet heavily influenced by the poet Langston Hughes and the art of Jean Michel Basquiat Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992 was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University 1992 1994 and received his MFA from Brown University While in Boston and Providence he was part of the African American poetry group The Dark Room Collective. The Best American Poetry 2011ld Born in Lincoln Nebraska Young is the author of Most Way Home To Repel Ghosts Jelly Roll Black Maria For The Confederate Dead Dear Darkness and editor of Giant Steps The New Generation of African American Writers Blues Poems Jazz Poems and John Berryman s Selected Poems. The Best American Poetry 2011 books His Black Cat Blues originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review was included in The Best American Poetry 2005 Young s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker Poetry Magazine The Paris Review Ploughshares and other literary magazines In 2007 he served as guest editor for an issue of Ploughshares He has written on art and artists for museums in Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Book The Best American Poetry 2011 2020 After stints at the University of Georgia and Indiana University Young now teaches writing at Emory University where he is the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing as well as the curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library a large collection of first and rare editions of poetry in English site_link The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand name status in the literary world The Best American Poetry 2011Overall I would give this collection a B average technically an 86. The Best American Poetry 2011in 1% avg as far as the quality of the poems contained I know that attempting to quantify poetic effect value is a ridiculous gesture but I am simply a ridiculous person Of course this is purely based off of my own tastes and will not necessarily reflect your average satisfaction rate I started a mission in October of 2016 to read the entire Best American Poetry series so that I can begin to get a better sense of A what my taste in poetry is and B my own poetic voice. EBook The Best American Poetry 2011 toyota BAP 2011 was better than the 2012 edition but it did not reach the heights of the 2016 2014 and 1997 editions that I have read I am starting to at least see that I have a few preferences and beliefs about what makes good poetry Although my beliefs about what I don t like to see in poetry may be clearly defined What I know that I don t like to see in a poem is perfectly embodied in a few of the poems in this 2011 edition. Book The Best American Poetry 2011 book Stephen Yenser s Cycladic Idyll An Aplogia is perhaps the best example of what I feel is the worst kind of modern poetry The worst kind of modern poetry tries too hard to revive the urbane modernism of Pound and Eliot It is filled with pretentious allusions that assume that every reader is well versed in classical history and literature To be clear I too am reasonably educated in these things and I thoroughly enjoy the work of Pound and Eliot but I feel that poetry is being held back and confined to academia by poems like Yenser s that take their often dated artistic sentiments much too far That and the awkward unwieldy mid size length of Cycladic is enough to turn off any non poetry readers from ever wanting to try again. Kindle The Best American Poetry 2011 free download The stick is up this poem s ass and its lack of a clear thematic throughline and genuine emotion make this poem structurally unsound Every longer poem needs a clearer foundation that includes the two latterly mentioned traits or else it will not stand erected in the reader s mind for years to come If a poet is to venture into a longer form then they damn well better ensure that their audience likes them enough to go along for the ride If this cannot be accomplished poems must aim to as memorable and crystalline efficient as possible If poetry is ever to break out of the halls of academia and back into the mainstream poets must remember their audience They must make the kind of allusions that are welcoming or at least encourage quick hypertextual reading and not a four year liberal arts degree from the Ivy League Which one Who cares. The Best American Poetry 2011gif I say this in hopes that I do not come off an anti intellectual or anti classicist but as a pro poetry and pro classicism There are ways to write poems that make modern readers actually want to learn about the allusions that poets are making I strive for this in my own poetry I feel that Padgett Carver and Collins are excellent models for what I am talking about There are far too many wannabe modernists that glorious age is over let us study these masters but we do not ALL need to emulate them in every poem we write and flighty postmodernists hit or miss Let s just focus as poets to try and write something that makes people want to feel for and with others learn about our world and read poetry. Book The Best American Poetry 2011 torrent That being said there are many poems in this edition and other editions of BAP that do attain or at leats come much closer to achieving what is necessary to truly resuscitate poetry for modern American audiences The niche culture of poets and poetry readers although these are hardly mutually exclusive populations is all well and good Painter I would absolutely to highly recommend approx 38% of the poems contained in this volume 240 Some powerful poems in this collection along with several that made me wonder along with some of my students how these poets ever published a poem let alone got published in The Best American Poetry I realize editors tastes differ from readers and that even if one doesn t like a poem per se you can still find the craft in it but there were a few that were so vapid and bizarre that neither the content nor the craft was engaging Paul Muldoon are you from outerspace However Sherman Alexie s Valediction Jennifer Grotz s Poppies Alan Feldman s In November and Patricia Smith s Motown Crown stood out as exceptional pieces among others For me though one of the greatest delights in this collection is a series of sonnets by a little known no published book older woman who just got her MFA at 60 and wrote what to me was the most powerfully personal and lyrical piece Thirteen Months by Mary Jo Thompson Thank heavens the editors recognize that there are poets who are not renound yet and do not teach at some elite university or in a nationally recognized MFA program but who have created memorable pieces of art that deserve to be read If only there were a few 240 Interesting how the flavor of 10 years ago comes through here Worth the read for many David Lehman discusses this point in his foreword The plethora of quotations in the first half of the foreword made it a choppy read for me but I am ecstatic to say that the part I enjoyed most about it was the last few paragraphs that Mr Lehman wrote which summarized his own feelings on anthologizing poems the wherewithal of poetry and the structure and organization of the collection and all while devoid of quotes It came as quite a surprise to me that this anthology is organized alphabetically I read the foreword and introduction after the collection and didn t notice and constantly wondered about the connective thread I m happy to finally know Kevin Young who selected the poems for this work manages quite a feat in his introduction he made me want to reread every poem in the book with his discussion and he compared the comeback of the sonnet to the much hyped and awaited return of the McRib sandwich Bravo Mr Young. The Best American Poetry 2011 ebooks free My favorite poems are the ones that punch you in the gut in the fewest number of stanzas possible Tell me in a two pages or less or my eyes will start to glaze over and my mind will start wandering I read three or four of these poems every few nights before I went to sleep and some I read over and over and over It is truly a gift to be able to evoke emotions with your words in such a brief format I must admit that a few of them made me tear up but the same number dazzled me with their humor and cleverness For example Rachel Wetzsteon s Time Pieces features short haiku stanzas each a clever play on a heading about the passage of time Intermission Time Guilty admission this plunge from art to life s a painful transition Or Just give it time Though I frankly feel better there s nothing sadder than starting to heal emphasis my own to differentiate headings For some reason I am always drawn to poems about loss I was touched by Yusef Komunyakaa s A Voice on an Answering Machine in which he writes of a woman lost but whose voice still remains as a reminder and similarly moved by Gretchen Steele Pratt s To my father on the anniversary of his death I think the common thread for me will always be personal memories We all like to make that connection with other people and wait patiently for those a ha moments in literature when writers fascinate us with their perfect statements. PDF The Best American Poetry 2011 2021 I have to admit that I laughed out loud during Erin Belieu s When at a Certain Party in NYC clearly we ve met some similar people in our travels and felt unhip at times And I was quite surprised as several of my reader friends may be that both Sherman Alexie and Julianna Baggott have poems in this collection I only mention these two specifically as I was familiar with their names before reading their biographical sections I particularly enjoyed as much as you can enjoy Alexie s Valediction which goes back to my death related poem obsession He writes Yes my sad acquaintance each dark time is Indistinguishable from the other dark times Yesterday is as relentless as tomorrow Makes you really want to go to sleep eh A few of my other favorites were Eric Pankey s Cogitatio Mortis After awhile each room is a waiting room James Longenbach s Snow and Jane Hirschfield s extremely short The Cloudy Vase which captures optimism in just four lines. Book The Best American Poetry 2011 2021 Because each poem is such a singular experience I could obviously ramble about this anthology for ages Some were better than others to me and many poems I enjoyed were left out of this review for the sake of brevity This was my first experience with The Best American Poetry series and it won t be my last I ll just leave you with just one quote from James Richardson s Even More Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays from Vectors 3. Book The Best American Poetry 2011 2012 0 What is yours than what you always hold back Thanks to the publisher and Simon Schuster s Galley Grab program for reminding me how amazing poetry can be and for a larger collection of favorite quotations 240 Finished I liked this year s effort slightly better than the last few but not enough to bump it up a star Part of the reason for this is that Young invests a lot of pages on long poems I didn t particularly like As always Series Editor David Lehman starts things off with a 10 page Forward to Kevin Young s 6 page Introduction I ve stopped reading Lehman s junk I just find him a Look At Me windbag Young s Intro sets the table but a little misleadingly mentioning the economic crisis and how poets have responded Yeah there s a few poems that touch on this but the overwhelming number of poems in this effort are elegies the topic of a recent Young anthology There are some powerfully sad poems in this collection So much so that you kind of wanted a little variety but overall I think Young did a pretty good job except for the long poems Here s a list of what I liked Poems I liked Means extra special Postlude and Prequel by John Ashbery I m no Ashbery fan so this is good news To My Lover Concerning the Yird Swine by Juliana Baggott Mine is the First Rodeo Mine is the Last Acolade by Jaswinder BolinaHere and There by Billy Collins I do not like Collins so again good news a good poem Three Sonnets by Olena Kalytiak Davis I think I like these 3 poems Probably because of the use of the word fuck in sonnets But I m shallow about stuff like that Coffee by Matthew DickmanPoppies by Jennifer Grotz God s Promises by Paul Hoover From Holding Company a group of poems by Major Jackson A Voice on the Answering Machine by Yusef Komunyakaa Might end up being the saddest poem of the bunch Horn by Robert PinskyGhost Aurora David St John Nineteen Thirty Eight by Charles SimicDream IV by Gerald SternEcclesiastes II I by Richard Wilbur I didn t know he was still alive Really good poem Poems I didn t like by big name poets Robert Hass August Notebook A Death Long and boring and arguably not a poem and I m very flexible on that, The Best American Poetry 2011 poetry out Pankey Pierce Pollitt Pratt Also liked Armantrout Essbaum Goldberg and Wetzsteon The real standout for me was Trethewey s Elegy for her father. The Best American Poetry 2011 kindle unlimited and as a poetry lover and an amateur poet it was absolutely mesmerizing: Best american poetry 2021 pdf free it is emotional it is unique and it is just a plain great experience especially for young poets such as my self to see the diversity at witch poetry can take place. The Best American Poetry 2011lt turning any thing every day life little moments buried memories and the most mundane to the most bizarr of thoughts into poetry. Book The Best American Poetry 2011 torrent His 2003 book of poems Jelly Roll was a finalist for the National Book Award: Book The Best American Poetry 2011 book Jane Hirshfield The Cloudy Vase Too short and slight to deserve a slot in the BAP Name over content here: The Best American Poetry 2011 epubor Mark Strand The Poem of a Spanish Poet Just plain sucks 240

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