Vincent Stanley
Best American Poetry, 2009
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Although the poetry collected in this volume runs the gamut of themes from love to Freud to the beauty of the matriarchs in Genesis, the idea of America is a prominent unifying thread that spans throughout — as Derek Walcott interrogates the meaning of change in government in "A Sea-Change", only to be interrogated back by Vincent Stanley in "At the New York Public Library, I heard Derek Walcott dismiss the prose poem."