"American poetry." . . . . . . . . "\"I have linked poems from different books and periods, and I have also arranged a series of collisions among some of them. I have ignored chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all my poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. I hope you will read this as though I have, in fact, composed a new book\"--Page xi."@en . "The nerve of it : poems new and selected"@en . . . "2000 - 2099" . . "American poetry 21st century." . .