The Best American Poetry 1993 - Hardcover

Garbage by Archie Randolph Ammons
Baked Alaska by John Ashbery
The Same Troubles With Beauty You've Always Had by Michael Atkinson
Cold Cash by Stephen Berg
Interrogation by Sophie Cabot Black
Chapter One by Stephanie Brown
Three Oranges by Charles Bukowski
At His Last Gig by Hayden Carruth
Statue by Thomas Willard Clark
An Unlikely One Will Guide Me... by Killarney Clary
Sometimes In Winter by Marc Steven Cohen
Tuesday, June 4, 1991 by Billy Collins
Macular Degeneration by Peter Cooley
Litany by Carolyn Creedon
Repressed Theme by Barbara Cully
The Window In Spring by Carl Dennis
Healing The World From Battery Park by Tim Dlugos
Favorite Iraqi Soldier by Stephen Dobyns
Feminism by Denise Duhamel
Shoelace by Roger Fanning
The Necessity by Alice B. Fogel
One Kiss by Tess Gallagher
Life Is Happy by Albert Goldbarth
What The Instant Contains (lyle Van Waring, 1922-1988) by Jorie Graham
The Great Work Farm Elegy by Allen Grossman
The Butcher's Son by Thomson William Gunn
Pluvia by Donald Hall
Vegetable Wisdom by Mark Halliday
Argument by Daniel Halpern
Theory by Paul Hoover
Absolutely by David Ignatow
Hourglass by Josephine Jacobsen
Questions For Ecclesiastes by Mark Jarman
Grand Projection by Rodney Jones
Invitation To A Ghost by Donald Justice
The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Mapping by Robert Kelly
Having It Out With Melancholy: 8. Credo by Jane Kenyon
Having It Out With Melancholy: 9. Wood Thrush by Jane Kenyon
Looking At The Sea by Pamela Kircher
Talking To Patrizia by Kenneth Koch
Harriet Feigenbaum Is A Sculptor by Phyllis Koestenbaum
Chariot by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
In California During The Gulf War by Denise Levertov
The Urinating Man by Lisa Lewis
Grim Town In A Steep Valley by Thomas Lux
The Nearsighted by Elizabeth Macklin
Open Rebuke (concealed Love) by Tom Mandel
From The Person She Is by James Mcmichael
Waiting For Lesser Duckweed: On A Proposal Of Issa's by Sandra Jean Mcpherson
The Stranger; After A Guarani Legend Recorded By Ernesto Morales by William Stanley Merwin
Rapture by Susan Mitchell
April Fool's Day, Mount Pleasant Cemetery by A. F. Moritz
Poppies by Mary Oliver
Advice To Young Writers by Ron Padgett
Who Is To Say by Michael Palmer
Skin by Lucia Maria Perillo
Magic Problems by Lawrence Raab
Amends by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Miracle Ice Cream by Adrienne Cecile Rich
To The Days by Adrienne Cecile Rich
What Kind Of Times Are These by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Makeshift by Laura Riding
Angels Grieving Over The Dead Christ by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Icon by Hugh Seidman
This Morning by Charles Simic
Suddenly by Louis Simpson
Ripples On The Surface by Gary Snyder
Coleman Valley Road by Gerald Stern
That Winter by Ruth Stone
Dark Harbor: 32 by Mark Strand
In My Own Backyard by James Tate
To A Former Mistress, Now Dead by John Updike
Song And Story by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Of Flesh And Spirit by Wang Ping
A Filial Republic by Susan Wheeler
A Dream Of Mind: The Gap by Charles Kenneth Williams
The Business Of Love Is Cruelty by Dean Young
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

Now in its sixth year, this poetry showcase includes work from some four dozen magazines. Like her predecessors, Gluck brings her unique perspective to her selections; many of these works share a sense of the divine. The speaker of Mark Jarman's haunting poem recalls going with his minister father to visit a family after their teenage daughter committed suicide. Former Yale Younger Poets winner Brigit Pegeen Kelly's highly successful experiment with multiple narrative lines juxtaposes a pregnant woman's thoughts while walking through an old graveyard with stories of boys defacing tombstones, recollections from a dream, tales of the region's settlers, and questions about God. Less philosophical but equally memorable is Ruth Stone's portrait of a young housewife in Chicago during WW II. Ending the selections on a particularly strong note, Dean Young's lyric about a young boy who shouts "I hate you" to his mother is one of those rare, intense poems that deserves several readings. As in previous years, author bios and useful comments on poems are gathered into an appendix. In her preface, Gluck expresses her uneasiness with calling anything "best," and reminds readers that time is the true test of what survives. Many selections here possess that timeless quality.
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