Best American Poetry 1994 - Hardcover

Lehman, David

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9780671510046: Best American Poetry 1994

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671510045 ISBN 13: 9780671510046

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1994

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Diverse in both subject matter and style, this is a collection of modern American poetry.

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A Short History Of The Vietnam War Years by Dick Allen
Cinema Verite: Jacques Derrida And God's Tsimtsum by Tom Andrews
Cinema Verite: The Death Of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Tom Andrews
Cinema Verite: William Makepeace Thackeray Follows His Bliss by Tom Andrews
Myrtle by John Ashbery
Tremendous Mood Swings by Burlin Barr
What You Want Means What You Can Afford by Cynthia Bond
Demographics by Catherine Bowman
The Fire Fetched Down by George Bradley
The Only Dance There Is by Rebecca Byrkit
A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street by Amy Clampitt
Tantrum Girl Responds To Death by Michelle T. Clinton
War And Hell by Ernest Howard Crosby
The Body Is The Flower by James Cummins
Full Of Rain, The Word by Ramola Dharmaraj
The Cardinal Detoxes: A Play In One Act by Thomas M. Disch
Difference by Mark Doty
Bulimia by Denise Duhamel
Northwestern Mathematics by Tony Esolen
Life Drawing by Richard Foerster
The Priming Is A Negligee by Alice Fulton
After Dark by Allison Funk
In The Hotel by Jorie Graham
The Frog In The Swimming Pool by Debora Greger
Another Elegy; In Memory Of William Trout by Donald Hall
Getting Happy by Forrest Hamer
Sleeps: 39, The Polar Circle by Lyn Hejinian
Deceptively Like A Solid by Roald Hoffmann
Variations On A Fragment By Trumbull Stickney by John Hollander
The Love Of The Flesh by Janet Holmes
Baseball by Paul Hoover
A Lost Art; Vienna, 1805 by Richard Howard
The Necessary Angel by Phyllis Janowitz
Unholy Sonnets: 10 by Mark Jarman
Unholy Sonnets: 14 by Mark Jarman
Unholy Sonnets: 2 by Mark Jarman
Unholy Sonnets: 8 by Mark Jarman
The Foot by Alice Jones
Contempt by Rodney Jones
Courting Famous Figures At The Grotto Of Improbable Thought by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
A Rune by Caroline Knox
One Train May Hide Another by Kenneth Koch
Avant-dernieres Pensees: Aubade by Dionisio D. Martinez
Avant-dernieres Pensees: Idylle by Dionisio D. Martinez
Avant-dernieres Pensees: Meditation by Dionisio D. Martinez
Found Parable by Joseph Donald Mcclatchy
Following Here To Sleep by Jeffrey Mcdaniel
Spike Logic by James Mcmanus
Family Week At Oracle Ranch by James Ingram Merrill
One Of The Lives by William Stanley Merwin
I Was On A Golf Course The Day John Cage Died Of A Stroke by Stephen Paul Miller
Allegory by Jenny Mueller
Another Funky Sunday by Harryette Mullen
Battered Like Her Face by Harryette Mullen
Country Clothes Hung On Her All And Sundry by Harryette Mullen
I Dream A World by Harryette Mullen
Sapphire's Lyre Shows by Harryette Mullen
Sun Goes On Shining by Harryette Mullen
At The Lakehouse by Brighde Mullins
Sensible Qualities by Fred Muratori
The Knowing by Sharon Olds
Them by Maureen Owen
Divided Touch, Divided Color by Kathleen Peirce
A Mathematics Of Breathing by Carl Phillips
Pornography by Lloyd Schwartz
Pol Pot by Frederick Seidel
The Letter by Alan Shapiro
Courtesan by Angela Shaw
Read Your Fate by Charles Simic
Snow Songs: 1 by William Dewitt Snodgrass
Snow Songs: 2 by William Dewitt Snodgrass
Snow Songs: 3 by William Dewitt Snodgrass
Snow Songs: 4 by William Dewitt Snodgrass
Snow Songs: 5 by William Dewitt Snodgrass
Snow Songs: 6 by William Dewitt Snodgrass
Snow Songs: 7 by William Dewitt Snodgrass
Snow Songs: 8 by William Dewitt Snodgrass
The Robed Heart by Elizabeth Spires
Apollo Takes Charge Of His Muses by A. E. Stallings
The Mysterious Maps by Mark Strand
Offering by Sharan Strange
Sleeping With Boa by May Swenson
Modern Times by Janet Sylvester
Life A Scarf by James Tate
Death Of A Distant In-law by Patricia Traxler
The Snake In The Garden Considers Daphne by William Wadsworth
My Talk With An Elegant Man by Kevin Walker
Putting In A Word by Rosanne Wasserman
The One by Bruce Weigl
Who They Were by Joshua Weiner
Song For The In-itself And For-itself by Henry Weinfield
'camille Monet Sur Son Lit De Mort' by Michael White
A Digression by Richard Wilbur
Upon Hearing Of My Friend's Marriage Breaking Up by Dean Young
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

From Publishers Weekly:

Some of the strong poems in Lehman's always worthwhile annual anthology series include Jorie Graham's "In the Hotel," Mark Doty's "Difference," Lyn Hejinian's "The Polar Circle," J.D. McClatchy's "Found Parable" and W.D. Snodgrass's "Snow Songs." The Graham, for instance, is a painstaking and courageous exploration of emptiness revealed as fully occupied; the writer's brilliance lies not only in her descriptive, imaginative accuracy in envisioning this, but also in a sort of investigative patience that equips her to "report" on absence in breathtaking detail. Her achievement seems pioneering. Likewise, Hejinian writes like an honest high-roller, seeking out "the farthest extent of a scene," though in more abstract terms than Graham's. The matchless musicality of Snodgrass, and a personal encyclopedia of imagery ("God's bobbin mills"; "the horizon, a maternal flour sifter") summon up a winter's snow, while McClatchy's earnest intellectual wit writes an essay as a poem. Virtuosity and range buoy the book. And fortunately, Lehman uses the opportunity of his introduction to make critical suggestions about the state of poetry and poetry criticism. As usual, this yearly compendium is not to be missed.
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