The Best American Poetry 2014

by David Lehman

  Robert Pinsky, editor, The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition

  Denise Duhamel, editor, The Best American Poetry 2013

  We hope you enjoyed reading this Scribner eBook.

  * * *

  Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Scribner and Simon & Schuster.

  CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP

  or visit us online to sign up at

  eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com

  SCRIBNER POETRY

  A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

  1230 Avenue of the Americas

  New York, NY 10020

  www.SimonandSchuster.com

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the authors’ imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2014 by David Lehman

  Foreword copyright © 2014 by David Lehman

  Introduction copyright © 2014 by Terrance Hayes

  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information, address Scribner Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.

  First Scribner edition September 2014

  SCRIBNER and design are registered trademarks of The Gale Group, Inc., used under license by Simon & Schuster, Inc., the publisher of this work.

  The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com.

  Jacket/cover design by Leslie Goldman

  Jacket/cover art: John Sloan (American, 1871–1951), Isadora Duncan, 1911 (oil on canvas). Milwaukee Art Museum. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Abert. Photographed by P. Richard Eells © 2014 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

  Library of Congress Control Number: 88644281

  ISBN 978-1-4767-0815-7

  ISBN 978-1-4767-0817-1 (pbk)

  ISBN 978-1-4767-0818-8 (ebook)