The Best American poetry, 1991 / Mark Strand, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
1991
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Title
The Best American poetry, 1991 / Mark Strand, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
ISBN
0684193116
9780684193113
9780020698449 (pbk.)
0020698445 (pbk.)
9780684193113
9780020698449 (pbk.)
0020698445 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : C. Scribner's Sons, c1991.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 326 p. ; 22 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)28559724
Summary
A selection of 75 poems by new and established poets, culled from the pages of nearly three dozen magazines published in the past year.
Bibliography, etc. Note
"Magazines where the poems were first published": p. 319-326.
Formatted Contents Note
The voice from Paxos / Jonathan Aaron
Evidence: from a reporter's notebook / Ai
Talking with poets / Dick Allen
Bookmaking / Julia Alvarez
Cigarettes / John Ash
Of dreams and dreaming / John Ashbery
Great stone face / George Bradley
In memory of my father: Australia / Joseph Brodsky
Double sonnet for Mickey / Gerald Burns
A whippoorwill in the woods / Amy Clampitt
Blue lonely dreams / Marc Cohen
Infernal regions and the invisible girl / Alfred Corn
Desire / Stephen Dobyns
Bringing it down / Stephen Dunn
The recording angel / Carolyn Forche
The fractal lanes / Alice Fulton
Celestial music / Louise Gluck
The phase after history / Jorie Graham
The consolation of Boethius / Melissa Green
The afterlife / Debora Greger
Safe / Linda Gregerson
The ether dome (an entertainment) / Allen Grossman
The beautician / Thom Gunn
Tubes / Donald Hall
Garden / Brooks Haxton
Who we are / Daniel Hoffman
The see-saw / John Hollander
Desire / Paul Hoover
Second nature / Ron Horning
What word did the Greeks have for it? / Richard Howard
The woods / Josephine Jacobsen
Body and soul / Donald Justice
Elegy / Vickie Karp
A flower for the new year / Robert Kelly
Let evening come / Jane Kenyon
The diva's first song (White's Hotel, London) / Karl Kirchwey
Marriage song / Carolyn Kizer
A time zone / Kenneth Koch
Morning in America / John Koethe
Work song / Mark Levine
Dark songs: slave house and synagogue / Laurence Lieberman
At the classics teacher's / Elizabeth Macklin
An essay on friendship / J.D. McClatchy
Smash and scatteration / James McManus
The 'ring' cycle / James Merrill
Sky of clouds / Susan Mitchell
Benedick's complaints: Much Ado About Nothing / Gary Mitchner
Protracted episode / A.F. Moritz
Lunchcounter freedom / Thylias Moss
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942 / Joyce Carol Oates.
Chronic meanings / Bob Perelman
Evidence / Robert Polito
Night subway / Katha Pollitt
Into the open / Susan Prospere
The new reforms / Jack Roberts
Merlin / David St. John
Two poems / Sherod Santos
Leaves / Lloyd Schwartz
Past lives / Robyn Selman
The seasons / David Shapiro
Living color / Laurie Sheck
Country fair / Charles Simic
The wound / David R. Slavitt
The woman as figure / Charlie Smith
The Haiku master / Elizabeth Spires
For seven women / Ruth Stone
War movie: last leave, 1944 / Patricia Storace
I am a Finn / James Tate
Reminiscence forward / Molly Tenenbaum
Reruns / David Trinidad
Revenge / Chase Twichell
Omeros / Derek Walcott
Song / Rosanna Warren
Lasting influence / Susan Wheeler
Reading Lao Tzu again in the new year / Charles Wright.
Evidence: from a reporter's notebook / Ai
Talking with poets / Dick Allen
Bookmaking / Julia Alvarez
Cigarettes / John Ash
Of dreams and dreaming / John Ashbery
Great stone face / George Bradley
In memory of my father: Australia / Joseph Brodsky
Double sonnet for Mickey / Gerald Burns
A whippoorwill in the woods / Amy Clampitt
Blue lonely dreams / Marc Cohen
Infernal regions and the invisible girl / Alfred Corn
Desire / Stephen Dobyns
Bringing it down / Stephen Dunn
The recording angel / Carolyn Forche
The fractal lanes / Alice Fulton
Celestial music / Louise Gluck
The phase after history / Jorie Graham
The consolation of Boethius / Melissa Green
The afterlife / Debora Greger
Safe / Linda Gregerson
The ether dome (an entertainment) / Allen Grossman
The beautician / Thom Gunn
Tubes / Donald Hall
Garden / Brooks Haxton
Who we are / Daniel Hoffman
The see-saw / John Hollander
Desire / Paul Hoover
Second nature / Ron Horning
What word did the Greeks have for it? / Richard Howard
The woods / Josephine Jacobsen
Body and soul / Donald Justice
Elegy / Vickie Karp
A flower for the new year / Robert Kelly
Let evening come / Jane Kenyon
The diva's first song (White's Hotel, London) / Karl Kirchwey
Marriage song / Carolyn Kizer
A time zone / Kenneth Koch
Morning in America / John Koethe
Work song / Mark Levine
Dark songs: slave house and synagogue / Laurence Lieberman
At the classics teacher's / Elizabeth Macklin
An essay on friendship / J.D. McClatchy
Smash and scatteration / James McManus
The 'ring' cycle / James Merrill
Sky of clouds / Susan Mitchell
Benedick's complaints: Much Ado About Nothing / Gary Mitchner
Protracted episode / A.F. Moritz
Lunchcounter freedom / Thylias Moss
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942 / Joyce Carol Oates.
Chronic meanings / Bob Perelman
Evidence / Robert Polito
Night subway / Katha Pollitt
Into the open / Susan Prospere
The new reforms / Jack Roberts
Merlin / David St. John
Two poems / Sherod Santos
Leaves / Lloyd Schwartz
Past lives / Robyn Selman
The seasons / David Shapiro
Living color / Laurie Sheck
Country fair / Charles Simic
The wound / David R. Slavitt
The woman as figure / Charlie Smith
The Haiku master / Elizabeth Spires
For seven women / Ruth Stone
War movie: last leave, 1944 / Patricia Storace
I am a Finn / James Tate
Reminiscence forward / Molly Tenenbaum
Reruns / David Trinidad
Revenge / Chase Twichell
Omeros / Derek Walcott
Song / Rosanna Warren
Lasting influence / Susan Wheeler
Reading Lao Tzu again in the new year / Charles Wright.
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