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  <title><![CDATA[The Best American Poetry 2005 (Best American Poetry)]]></title>
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  <default_description> &lt;P&gt;This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated &lt;I&gt;Best American Poetry&lt;/I&gt; series reflects the latest developments and represents the state of the art today. Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected -- from a pool of several thousand published candidates -- the top seventy-five poems of the year.&lt;P&gt;With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's perspicacious foreword, &lt;I&gt;The Best American Poetry 2005&lt;/I&gt; is indispensable for every poetry enthusiast.&lt;P&gt; </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1990</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though some poems in this anthology rose to the level of &quot;okay,&quot; most ranged from trivial to painful. The book actually contained the phrase &quot;an army of innocence,&quot; as well as this winner: &quot;Do not disturb the visionary butterfly / at work in me.&quot;<br/><br/>I <em>am</em> gratefu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9468241">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a very precise type of poetry that I love to read and I found a few new poems in here that I really loved. The pages are now dog-eared (blasphemy!) and worn.  It felt good to go back to poetry after so much fiction.  Definitely a refreshing read.   ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Only a few poems really jumped out at me, but I still really enjoy how this series includes notes from the authors on their anthologized poem, which are often really funny or really illuminating.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is full of short poems that will bring up all kinds of emotions.  A few boring...but we cannot all connect with everything, right?  I checked it out at the library.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Favorites: A Blessing from My Sixteen Years' Son by Mary Karr,<br/>]]></body>
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