The best American poetry, 1999 / Robert Bly, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
1999
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Title
The best American poetry, 1999 / Robert Bly, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
ISBN
0684860031
9780684860039
0684842807
9780684842806
9780684860039
0684842807
9780684842806
Published
New York : Scribner Poetry, [1999]
Copyright
©1999
Language
English
Description
223 pages ; 22 cm
Exhibited
2000 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)42442400
Summary
This year's anthology gets a fresh treatment from guest editor Bly, an award-winning poet and translator famous for his leadership role in the men's movement. Bly has chosen 75 poems from literary magazines and journals.
Subject
This year's anthology gets a fresh treatment from guest editor Bly, an award-winning poet and translator famous for his leadership role in the men's movement. Bly has chosen 75 poems from literary magazines and journals.
Note
Piece includes bio-bibliographies of poets, a listing of magazines where poems were originally published, and a cumulative series index.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword / by David Lehman
Introduction / by Robert Bly
The selfishness of the poetry reader / Dick Allen
Story / John Balaban
Bill Matthews coming along (1942-1997) / Coleman Barks
Catch / George Bilgere
Foreign-domestic / Elizabeth Bishop
Tired sex / Chana Bloch
Narrow road, President's Day / Philip Booth
Sea of faith / John Brehm
Because I am / Hayden Carruth
the mississippi river empties into the gulf / Lucille Clifton
Dharma / Billy Collins
Mitch / Robert Creeley
Betrayal / Lydia Davis
Taproot / Debra Kang Dean
Pasternak / Chard deNiord
Madam's heart / Russell Edson
A Buddha in the woodpile / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
My father's fields / Dan Gerber
Vita Nova / Louise Glück
Breastbone / Ray Gonzalez
The last election / John Haines
Smile / Donald Hall
September / Jennifer Michael Hecht
What would Freud say? / Bob Hicok
The envoy / Jane Hirshfield
Lawrence / Tony Hoagland
Beach whispers / John Hollander
Man script / Amy Holman
The story of progress / David Ignatow
The Circle Theatre / Gray Jacobik
Last will and testament / Josephine Jacobsen
Two prose poems / Louis Jenkins
The patient / Mary Karr
A curse on the thief / X.J. Kennedy
Why regret? / Galway Kinnell
The erotic philosophers / Carolyn Kizer
1989 / Ron Koertge
Scapegoat / Yusef Komunyakaa
The triumph of Narcissus and Aphrodite / William Kulik
Nunc dimittis / James Laughlin
The shipfitter's wife / Dorianne Laux
The sleepless grape / Li-Young Lee
First love / Denise Levertov
The return / Philip Levine
A charade / David Mamet
The swim / Gigi Marks
Misgivings / William Matthews
The characters of dirty jokes / Wesley McNair
A ball / Czeslaw Milosz
From Sonny's hands / Joan Murray
What it meant / Sharon Olds
Flare / Mary Oliver
And now / Franco Pagnucci
Say you love me / Molly Peacock
Hemingway's garden / David Ray
Seven skins / Adrienne Rich
Writing from memory / Alberto Ríos
That will to divest / Kay Ryan
Last recording session/for papa joe / Sonia Sanchez
The public and the private spheres / Revan Schendler
Longing and wonder / Myra Shapiro
Barber College haircut / Charles Simic
A shearling coat / Louis Simpson
Housewarming / Thomas R. Smith
A star is born in the eagle nebula / Marcia Southwick
Ways to live / William Stafford
The drunkard's daughter / Peggy Steele
A moment / Ruth Stone
Deer crossing the sea / Larissa Szporluk
The minefield / Diane Thiel
Thoreau and the crickets / David Wagoner
This pleasing anxious being / Richard Wilbur
Archetypes / C.K. Williams
American twilight / Charles Wright
The thread of sunshine / Timothy Young
Contributors' notes and comments
Magazines where the poems were first published
Acknowledgments.
Introduction / by Robert Bly
The selfishness of the poetry reader / Dick Allen
Story / John Balaban
Bill Matthews coming along (1942-1997) / Coleman Barks
Catch / George Bilgere
Foreign-domestic / Elizabeth Bishop
Tired sex / Chana Bloch
Narrow road, President's Day / Philip Booth
Sea of faith / John Brehm
Because I am / Hayden Carruth
the mississippi river empties into the gulf / Lucille Clifton
Dharma / Billy Collins
Mitch / Robert Creeley
Betrayal / Lydia Davis
Taproot / Debra Kang Dean
Pasternak / Chard deNiord
Madam's heart / Russell Edson
A Buddha in the woodpile / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
My father's fields / Dan Gerber
Vita Nova / Louise Glück
Breastbone / Ray Gonzalez
The last election / John Haines
Smile / Donald Hall
September / Jennifer Michael Hecht
What would Freud say? / Bob Hicok
The envoy / Jane Hirshfield
Lawrence / Tony Hoagland
Beach whispers / John Hollander
Man script / Amy Holman
The story of progress / David Ignatow
The Circle Theatre / Gray Jacobik
Last will and testament / Josephine Jacobsen
Two prose poems / Louis Jenkins
The patient / Mary Karr
A curse on the thief / X.J. Kennedy
Why regret? / Galway Kinnell
The erotic philosophers / Carolyn Kizer
1989 / Ron Koertge
Scapegoat / Yusef Komunyakaa
The triumph of Narcissus and Aphrodite / William Kulik
Nunc dimittis / James Laughlin
The shipfitter's wife / Dorianne Laux
The sleepless grape / Li-Young Lee
First love / Denise Levertov
The return / Philip Levine
A charade / David Mamet
The swim / Gigi Marks
Misgivings / William Matthews
The characters of dirty jokes / Wesley McNair
A ball / Czeslaw Milosz
From Sonny's hands / Joan Murray
What it meant / Sharon Olds
Flare / Mary Oliver
And now / Franco Pagnucci
Say you love me / Molly Peacock
Hemingway's garden / David Ray
Seven skins / Adrienne Rich
Writing from memory / Alberto Ríos
That will to divest / Kay Ryan
Last recording session/for papa joe / Sonia Sanchez
The public and the private spheres / Revan Schendler
Longing and wonder / Myra Shapiro
Barber College haircut / Charles Simic
A shearling coat / Louis Simpson
Housewarming / Thomas R. Smith
A star is born in the eagle nebula / Marcia Southwick
Ways to live / William Stafford
The drunkard's daughter / Peggy Steele
A moment / Ruth Stone
Deer crossing the sea / Larissa Szporluk
The minefield / Diane Thiel
Thoreau and the crickets / David Wagoner
This pleasing anxious being / Richard Wilbur
Archetypes / C.K. Williams
American twilight / Charles Wright
The thread of sunshine / Timothy Young
Contributors' notes and comments
Magazines where the poems were first published
Acknowledgments.
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Best American poetry.
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