The Pushcart book of poetry : the best poems from three decades of the Pushcart Prize / edited by Joan Murray with the Pushcart Prize poetry editors.

Power / Adrienne Rich
Peace in the Near East / Gerald Stern
Griots who knew Brer Fox / Colleen J. McElroy
Spring / Michael Hogan
Variations on A mound of corpses in the snow / Stephen Berg
Musical shuttle / Harvey Sharpio
end of science fiction / Lisel Mueller
Rabbit trace / Jarold Ramsey
sage of Apple Valley on love / Edward Field
We free singers be / Etheridge Knight
All kinds of caresses / John Ashbery
sleep / Philip Dacey
breaker / Naomi Clark
West Virginia sleep song / Ruthellen Quillen
Everyone knows whom the saved envy / James Galvin
There is a dream dreaming us / Norman Dubie
From Sweeney Astray / Seamus Heaney
Conversation by the body's light / Jane Cooper
Snow owl / Dave Smith
Running away from home / Carolyn Kizer
Pig 311 / Margaret Ryan
From Laughing with one eye / Gjertrude Schnackenberg
ritual of memories / Tess Gallagher
Quinnapoxet / Stanley Kunitz
otter / Seamus Heaney
Young women at Chartres / James Wright
I remember Galileo / Gerald Stern
Portrait of the artists with Li Po / Charles Wright
Breath / Heather McHugh
By the pool / Allen Grossman
Cantina music / Derek Walcott
Lagoon / Joseph Brodsky
Waiting in line / William Stafford
Floor / C. K. Williams
For Elizabeth Bishop / Sandra McPherson
World breaking apart / Louise Gluck
I sing the body electric / Philip Levine
From my window / C. K. Williams
journey / James Wright
southern cross / Charles Wright
Europa / Derek Walcott
snakes of September / Stanley Kunitz
Moles / Mary Oliver
I knew I'd sing / Heather McHugh
Procession / Philip Booth
man of many L's / Maxine Kumin
reedbeds of the Hackensack / Amy Clampitt
That bright grey eye / Hilda Morley
Consolation / Daniel Berrigan
power of toads / Pattiann Rogers
trickle-down theory of happiness / Philip Appleman
explosion / Susan Mitchell
Ground Zero / William Stafford
Ukiyo-E / Siv Cedering
fundamental project of technology / Galway Kinnell
Birthday star atlas / Charles Simic
Vesper sparrows / Deborah Digges
Rain country / John Haines
poem with no ending / Philip Levine
Wilderness / Vern Rusala
Turtle, swan / Mark Dory
throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly / Denis Johnson
Don't go to the barn / Tom Sleigh
noise the hairless make / Stephen Dobyns
Delfina Flores and her niece Modesta / Herbert Morris
I send moma home / Marilyn Nelson
Poland of death / Allen Grossman
That they were at the beach
Aeolotropic series / Leslie Scalapino
garden of earthly delights / Czeslaw Milosz
Le Petit Salvie / C. K. Williams
Four from the Bandelaire series / Michael Palmer
Lament for the makers / Robert Pinsky
Cheer / Laura Jensen
Justice without passion / Jane Hirshfield
Tenderness / Stephen Dunn
Miller epithalamium / Leslie Adrienne Miller
May, 1986 / Sharon Olds
little death / Arthur Smith
Sequence / Marilyn Nelson
Interpretation of a poem by Frost / Thylias Moss
For you / Jim Moore
love of travelers / Angela Jackson
Furious versions / Li-Young Lee
Incident at Imuris / Alberto Rios
Miles weeping / Michael Waters
Listening / David Mura
Post-Larkin Triste / Mary Kerr
Ascension on Fire Island / Henri Cole
vacant lot / Gibbons Ruark
Dying in Massaschusetts / Donald W. Baker
Sesame / Jack Marshall
White boot / Michael McClure
Sun spots / Christopher Buckley
Seeing you / Jean Valentine
Mighty forms / Brenda Hillman
Voigt woman who weeps / Ellen Bryant Voigt
From the meadow / Peter Everwine
To a wren on calvary / Larry Levis
I would call it derangement / Gerald Stern
My father's body / William Matthews
Reading with the poets / Stanley Plumly
Ray / Hayden Carruth
Note I left for Gerald Stern / William Matthews
Old Testament / Philip Levine
In the land of the lotus eaters / Tony Hoagland
A. M. : the hopeful monster / Alice Fulton
Coleman Valley Road / Gerald Stern
Guilt trip / David Lehman
Suite for Emily / Lynda Hull
portrait of the self as nation, 1990-1991 / Marilyn Chin
Lost brilliance / Rita Dove
Twice removed / Ralph Angel
Salt / Linda Gregerson
Song / Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Something like happiness / Stephen Dunn
Film noir : train trip out of metropolis / Lynn Emanuel
deconstruction of Emily Dickinson / Galway Kinnell
Sadness, an improvisation / Donald Justice
Anna Liffey / Eavan Boland
history of paisley / Aga Shahid Ali
wood near Athens / Thom Gunn
dog was crying tonight in Wicklow also / Seamus Heaney
button box / Grace Schulman
Japan / Billy Collins
Aliens / Kim Addonizio
Below Fourteenth Street / Gerald Stern
No turn on red / Richard Jackson
Karma lollipop / Albert Saijo
For the young men who died of AIDS / Julia Vinograd
What the animals teach us / Chard de Niord
Black legs / Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Vous Etes Plus Beaux Que Vous Ne Pensiez / Kenneth Koch
lectures on love / Edward Hirsch
book of the dead man #87 / Marvin Bell
Histories of bodies / Mariko Nagai
Like God / Lynn Emanuel
Once a shoot of heaven / Beckian Fritz Goldberg
cup / Katrina Roberts
Mitch / Robert Creeley
Gravitas / Elizabeth Alexander
Also love you / Reginald Shepherd
sky blue dress / Cathy Song
Sand, flies & fish / Mong-Lan
All the aphrodisiacs / Cathy Hong
My dead dad / David Kirby
Biblical also-rans / Charles Harper Webb
workforce / James Tate
Penumbra / Betty Adcock
To grasp the nettle / Eamon Grennan
Jasper, Texas, 1998 / Lucille Clifton
Memory / Anthony Hecht
short history of the shadow / Charles Wright
Inheritance / Kwame Dawes
Limen / Natasha Trethewey
Beetles / Steve Kowit
Inventory / Eamon Grennan
Cock Robin / Miranda Field
church of omnivorous light / Bobcat Wrigley
Red berries / Jane Hirshfield
Sonnet / Karen Volkman
part of the bee's body embedded in the flesh / Carol Frost
Autochthonic song / Rebecca Seiferle
Primer of words / David Baker
dragon / Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Commerce / Michael Waters
Is / Bruce Beasley
Cain's legacy / Richard Jackson
Adept / Dana Levin
Wonder : red beans and Ricely / Sydney Lea
Landscape with hungry gulls / Lance Larsen
Horseflies / Robert Wrigley
My brother, Antonio, the baker / Philip Levine
Can't you hear the wind howl? / Frank X. Gaspar
Beetle orgy / Benjamin Scott Grossberg
Rose of Sharon / Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Best and only / Andrew Feld
Mediterranean / Rosanna Warren
Bright world / Carl Phillips
Elevens / Stanley Plumly
On the reality of the symbol / Geoffrey Hill.