Best American Poetry 1990 - Softcover

The Damned by Archie Randolph Ammons
The Sweeping Gesture by John Ash
Notes From The Air by John Ashbery
Victim Of Himself by Marvin Bell
First Song / Bankei: 1653 by Stephen Berg
Jealousy by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Crucifixion by Hayden Carruth
The Life Of Towns: A Town I Have Heard Of by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Anna Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Apostle Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Bride Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Death Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Desert Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Emily Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Entgegenwartigung Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Freud Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Holderlin Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Judas Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Lear Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Love Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Luck Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Pushkin Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: September Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Sylvia Town by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town Gone To Sleep by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town Just Before The Lightning Flash by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town Of Bathsheba's Crossing by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town Of Finding Out About The Love Of God by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town Of My Farewell To You by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town Of The Death Of Sin by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town Of The Dragon Vein by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town Of The Little Mouthful by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town Of The Man In The Mind At Night by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town Of The Sound Of A Twig Breaking by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Town On The Way Through God's Woods by Anne Carson
The Life Of Towns: Wolf Town by Anne Carson
Wake Up by Raymond Carver
My Cousin Muriel by Amy Clampitt
Boys On Street Corners In Santa Ana. by Killarney Clary
Thinking by Robert Creeley
Dying In Your Garden Of Death To Go Back Into My Garden by Christopher Davis
The Crubling Infrastructure by Thomas M. Disch
Of Politics, & Art by Norman Dubie
The Chessboard Is On Fire by Aaron Fogel
To The Republic by James Galvin
This Land by Suzanne Gardinier
The Ice Age by Amy Gerstler
The War by Linda Gregg
Duncan by Thomson William Gunn
Praise For Death by Donald Hall
Bell & Capitol by Daniel Halpern
Berkeley Eclogue by Robert Hass
Squarings: Crossings. 30 by Seamus Heaney
Eclogue Of The Shepherd And The Townie by Anthony Hecht
On Nothing by Emily Hiestand
No Greener Pastures by Brenda Lynn Hillman
An Old-fashioned Song by John Hollander
Climbing Out Of The Cage by Virginia Hooper
The Victor Vanquished by Richard Howard
Perfection And Derangement by Fanny Howe
On The Bearing Of Waitresses by Rodney Jones
When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone by Galway Kinnell
Gangue by Edward Kleinschmidt
Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa
Ikon: The Harrowing Of Hell by Denise Levertov
Scouting by Philip Levine
Time by Thomas Lux
Slipped Quadrant by Nathaniel Mackey
Road by Kevin Magee
Afternoon Of A Mcgrath by Thomas Mcgrath
Barbie's Ferrari by Lynne Mcmahon
Concerning That Prayer I Cannot Make by Jane Mead
Quatrains For Pegasus by James Ingram Merrill
The Morning Train by William Stanley Merwin
Adoration by Jane Miller
Havana Birth by Susan Mitchell
The Worrying by Paul Monette
La Malinche by Laura Moriarty
There Will Be Animals by Thylias Moss
Teratology by Melinda Mueller
They by Laura Mullen
( 2 Pages From A Long Poem In Progress) by Alice Notley
Six Hermetic Songs by Michael Palmer
Pilgrimage by Robert Pinsky
Service Includes Free Lifetime Updating by Jendi Reiter
Japanese Presentation, I & Ii by Joan Retallack
The Old Causes by Donald Revell
Living Memory by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Switchblade by Michael Ryan
Haze by James Schuyler
Aids Days by Frederick Seidel
The Initiate by Charles Simic
Transparent Itineraries: 1984 by Gustaf Sobin
Primos by Elizabeth Spires
Last Night With Rafaella. by David St. John
Saving My Skin From Burning by Gerald Stern
Orpheus Alone by Mark Strand
Distance From Loved Ones by James Tate
Aurora Borealis And The Body Louse by Sidney Wade
The Cormorant by Rosanna Warren
A Wall In The Woods: Cummington by Richard Wilbur
Reading The Bible Backwards by Eleanor Wilner
Saturday Morning Journal by Charles Penzel, Jr. Wright
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

Now in its third year, this series again showcases the dizzying vitality of celebrated and little-known American poets. Graham ( The End of Beauty ) salutes work that is singularly American in its "signature ambition": "both to happen fast and have the experience ."xxxii And the collection bears out her contention that the poems, culled from three dozen magazines, sport distinctive voices, yet not at the expense of imagery or form. Forms are wonderfully diverse, ranging from a classical debate in Anthony Hecht's "Eclogue of the Shepherd and the Townie"70 to Donald Hall's bitter lamentation, "Praise for Death,"53 and Anne Carson's abstract but evocative "The Life of Towns."13 Moods swing from comic despair to mockery to elegy; something for every reader is here. Still, despite Graham's assertion that "precision remained the watershed criterion,"xxxi it is likely that only devotees of Language Poets--those dismantlers of conventionally articulate speech--will fully appreciate the fruit that lies beneath the undeniable difficulty of some prose poetry and poetic experiments.
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