The best American poetry
Book - 1988
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
Serial publications - Published
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New York, N.Y. :
Collier Books
[1988-]
New York : - Language
- English
- Item Description
- Published: Simon & Schuster, <1994- >
Editor varies with each volume.
Each year's anthology consists of 75 poems from the previous calendar year. - Physical Description
- volumes ; 22 cm
- Publication Frequency
- Annual.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781982186791
9781982186753
9781982186685 - ISSN
- 10405763
- Related Items
- Clothbound edition issued by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988-
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Kim Addonizio, "Existential Elegy"
- Howard Altmann, "Kyiv"
- Julia Alvarez, "Amenorrhea"
- Catherine Barnett, "Apophasis at the All-Night Rite Aid"
- Joshua Bennett, "First Philosophy"
- April Bernard, '"Sithens in a net'"
- Christopher Childers, "Miasma"
- Ama Codjoe, "The Deer"
- Henri Cole, "At Sixty-Five"
- Billy Collins, "The Monet Conundrum"
- Brendan Constantine, "Cleptopolitan"
- Armen Davoudian, "Conscription"
- Kwame Dawes, "The Remnant"
- Timothy Donnelly, "The Bard of Armagh"
- Rita Dove, "Happy End"
- Joanne Dominique Dwyer, "Irish Traveler's Writer's Block"
- Elaine Equi, "Avoidance"
- Gabriella Fee, "A Lighthouse Keeper Considers Love"
- Brandel France de Bravo, "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry"
- Dana Gioia, "Satan's Management Style"
- Louise Gliick, "Passion and Form"
- Amy Glynn, "Space Is the Final Frontier"
- Jessica Greenbaum, "Each Other Moment"
- Rachel Hadas, "Voyage"
- Saskia Hamilton, "All Souls"
- Jeffrey Harrison, "A Message from Tony Hoagland"
- Terrance Hayes, "How to Fold"
- John Hennessy, "Domestic Retrograde"
- W.J. Herbert, "Pando's Grove"
- Richie Hofmann, "Lamb"
- Marie Howe, "Chainsaw"
- Omotara James, "Closure"
- Eve Jones, "Japan"
- George Kalogeris, "Byzantine Chanting"
- Stephen Kampa, "Someone Else's Gift"
- Richard Kenney, "Self's the Man"
- Karl Kirchwey, "Kiss Me Deadly (1955)"
- Yusef Komunyakaa, "My Brothers, the Olmec"
- David Lehman, from Ithaca
- Ada Limon, "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa"
- Sarah Luczaj, "Shopping Lists"
- Amit Majmudar, "Charmed Life"
- Clarence Major, "Weather Conditions"
- Charles Martin, "You Summon Me ..."
- Heather McHugh, "Two Widows, Making a Bed"
- Maggie Millner, from Couplets
- Ange Mlinko, "The Open C"
- Andrew Motion, "The Explanation"
- Paul Muldoon, "Joy in Service on Rue Tagore"
- Harryette Mullen, "Haiku Garden"
- Jesse Nathan, "Dame's Rocket"
- Jacqueline Osherow, "Fast Track: Beijing, Montana, Harlem"
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips, "The First and Final Poem Is the Sun"
- Robert Pinsky, "Proverbs of Limbo"
- Maya C. Popa, "What's Unsaid"
- Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Eelam"
- Natalie Scenters-Zapico, "Sentimental Evening"
- Robyn Schiff, from Information Desk: An Epic
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg, "Strike Into It Unasked"
- Grace Schulman, "Night Visitor"
- Jane Shore, "The Hat"
- Mitch Sisskind, "Jack Benny"
- Maggie Smith, "Hope Chest"
- Karen Solie, "The Bluebird"
- Christopher Spaide, "I'm Not Dying, You're Dying"
- A.E. Stallings, "Crown Shyness"
- Mark Strand, "Wallace Stevens Comes Back to Read His Poems at the 92nd Street Y'
- Adrienne Su, "The Days"
- Arthur Sze, "Pe'ahi Light"
- Claire Wahmanholm, "The Field Is Hot and Hotter"
- Rosanna Warren, "A New Year"
- Michael Waters, "Ashkenazi Birthmark"
- Eliot Weinberger, from The Life of Tu Fu
- Matthew Yeager, "The Man with the Yellow Balloon"
- Kevin Young, "Diptych"
- Contributors' Notes and Comments
- Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published
- Acknowledgments