The Best American Poetry 2005 Book

	Foreword	1
	Introduction	11
	In view of the fact	15
	In dearest, deepest winter	17
	The Catholic encyclopedia	19
	I want to be your shoebox	20
	Roommates : noblesse oblige, Sprezzatura, and gin lane	23
	The beats	25
	Irregular masks	27
	Seven Changs	29
	To Jacques Pepin	31
	The poets march on Washington	32
	Urban myth	33
	Five roses in the morning	34
	Everything I needed to know	35
	The revolution	36
	Pre-Raphaelite pinups	38
	The magical sadness of Omar Caceres	41
	19-- : an elegy	44
	I need to be more French : or Japanese	46
	In praise of my prostate	48
	Adam and Eve's dog	49
	Watch	51
	Blue on her hands	53
	Advice for a stegosaurus	55
	The searchers	56
	The turn of the screw	58
	For Kateb Yacine	59
	I may after leaving you walk quickly or even run	63
	Contributors' notes	64
	Variations on two black cinema treasures	66
	Seesaws	68
	Motes	69
	The propagation of the species	71
	From The fatalist	75
	Remorse after a panic attack in a Wisconsin field, 1975	78
	Burlap sack	80
	In a quiet town by the sea	81
	Ants	83
	A chapter in the life of Mr. Kehoe, fisherman	85
	A blessing from my sixteen years' son	86
	Hell and love	88
	The wolf	89
	Shelley	90
	In the graveyard of fallen monuments	92
	Hell	94
	Ill-made almighty	96
	Space marriage	97
	Song : I love you : who are you?	100
	Dear owl	102
	Death is intended	104
	Dislocations : seven scenarios	106
	All the ghosts	110
	How I became impossible	112
	Home to roost	113
	Media effects	114
	Constanza Bonarelli	115
	The grilled cheese sandwich	118
	Moscow	120
	Hate poem	121
	Sunlight	123
	An impasse	124
	For Hughes Cuenod - in his 100th year	125
	Waiting for a ride	127
	Twenty questions	128
	End of the day on second	129
	The swing	131
	Marijuana	133
	For a man who wrote cunt on a motel bathroom mirror	136
	From the notebooks of Anne Verveine, VII	138
	Ballad of the subcontractor	140
	From "The Maud project"	142
	Some words inside of words	144
	Bareback pantoum	146
	A short history of my life	148
	A big ball of foil in a small New York apartment	150
	Black cat blues	154