The best American poetry, 1993 / Louise Glück, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.

Garbage / A.R. Ammons
Baked Alaska / John Ashbery
The same troubles with beauty you've always had / Michael Atkinson
Cold cash / Stephen Berg
Interrogation / Sophie Cabot Black
Chapter one / Stephanie Brown
Three oranges / Charles Bukowski
At his last gig / Hayden Carruth
Statue / Tom Clark
An unlikely one will guide me... / Killarney Clary
Sometimes in winter / Marc Cohen
Tuesday, June 4th, 1991
Macular degeneration / Peter Cooley
litany / Carolyn Creedon
Repressed theme / Barbara Cully
The window in spring / Carl Dennis
Healing the world from battery park / Tim Dlugos
Favorite Iraqi soldier / Stephen Dobyns
Feminism / Denise Duhamel
The vanishings / Stephen Dunn
Shoelace / Roger Fanning
The necessity / Alice B. Fogel
One kiss / Tess Gallagher
Life is happy / Albert Goldbarth
What the instant contains / Jorie Graham
Great work farm elegy / Allen Grossman
The butcher's son / Thom Gunn
Pluvia / Donald Hall
Vegetable wisdom / Mark Halliday
Argument / Daniel Halpern
Theory / Paul Hoover
Absolutely / David Ignatow
Hourglass / Josephine Jacobsen
Questions for Ecclesiastes / Mark Jarman
Grand projection / Rodney Jones
Invitation to a ghost / Donald Justice
The white pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery / Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Mapping / Robert Kelly
Having it out with Melancholy / Jane Kenyon
Looking at the sea / Pamela Kircher
Talking to Patrizia / Kenneth Koch
Harriet Feigenbaum is a sculptor / Phyllis Koestenbaum
Chariot / Stanley Kunitz
In California during the Gulf War / Denise Levertov
The urinating man / Lisa Lewis
Grim town in a steep valley / Thomas Lux
The nearsighted / Elizabeth Macklin
Open rebuke (concealed love) / Tom Mandel
From The Person She Is / James McMichael
Waiting for Lesser Duckweed: on a proposal of Issa's / Sandra McPherson
The stranger / W.S. Merwin.

Rapture / Susan Mitchell
April Fool's Day, Mount Pleasant Cemetery / A. F. Moritz
Poppies / Mary Oliver
Advice to young writers / Ron Padgett
Who is to say / Michael Palmer
Skin / Lucia Maria Perillo
Of flesh and spirit / Wang Ping
Magic problems / Lawrence Raab
Not somewhere else, but here / Adrienne Rich
Makeshift / Laura Riding
Angels grieving over the dead Christ / Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Icon / Hugh Seidman
This morning / Charles Simic
Suddenly / Louis Simpson
Ripples on the surface / Gary Snyder
Coleman Valley Road / Gerald Stern
That winter / Ruth Stone
From Dark Harbor / Mark Strand
In my own backyard / James Tate
To a former mistress, now dead / John Updike
Song and story / Ellen Bryant Voigt
A filial republic / Susan Wheeler
A dream of mind: the gap / C.K. Williams
The business of love is cruelty / Dean Young.