The Best American Poetry, 1989 - Softcover

Hall, Donald; Lehman, David

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9780020441823: The Best American Poetry, 1989

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ISBN 10: 0020441827 ISBN 13: 9780020441823

Publisher: Collier Books, 1989

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An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry

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Anxiety's Prosody by Archie Randolph Ammons
Meanwhile %far Above by John Ashbery
Northern Idylls by Beth Bentley
It Is Marvellous by Elizabeth Bishop
My Father At 85 by Robert Bly
Twins Of A Gazelle Which Feed Among The Lilies by Robert Bly
Of The Knowledge Of Good And Evil by George Bradley
What I Heard At The Discount Department Store by David Budbill
Hotel Tropicana by Michael Burkard
A Minor Tremor by Amy Clampitt
For Robert Duncan by Thomas Willard Clark
Paris by Clark Coolidge
True Solar Holiday by Douglas Crase
Age by Robert Creeley
Letter From The Poetry Editor by Peter Davison
The Reading by David Dooley
The Late Notebooks Of Albrecht Durer by Rita Dove
Letting The Puma Go by Stephen Elliott Dunn
The Rabbit Story by Russell Edson
The Rivals by Daniel Mark Epstein
A Date With Robbe-grillet by Elaine Equi
Bw by Aaron Fogel
Powers Of Congress by Alice Fulton
Voyage by Suzanne Gardinier
In Violet by Debora Greger
Cafeteria In Boston by Linda Gregg
A Dark Thing Inside The Day by Linda Gregg
History by Donald Hall
Kinneret by John Hollander
The Novel: 25 by Paul Hoover
The Good Reason For Our Forgetting by Marie Howe
Heat Lightning In A Time Of Drought by Andrew Hudgins
Every Day There Are New Memos by Rodney Jones
An Awful Lot Was Happening by Lawrence Joseph
Dance Lessons Of The Thirties by Donald Justice
Getting Dressed In The Dark by Vickie Karp
Three Songs At The End Of Summer by Jane Kenyon
Six Hamlets: Hamlet Rebus by Kenneth Koch
Six Hamlets: La Comtesse De Bercy Hamlet by Kenneth Koch
Six Hamlets: Little Red Riding Hamlet by Kenneth Koch
Six Hamlets: Smoking Hamlet by Kenneth Koch
Transposed Hamlet by Kenneth Koch
The Ransom by Phillis Levin
Dog Poem by Philip Levine
Teste Moanial by Anne Macnaughton
Condo Auction by Harry Mathews
Kidnapped by Robert Mazzocco
Showing Us The Fields by James Mccorkle
The Fifties by Robert Mcdowell
The Abandonment by Wesley Mcnair
A Room At The Heart Of Things by James Ingram Merrill
The Warmth Of Hot Chocolate by Thylias Moss
The Wellspring by Sharon Olds
Some Questions You Might Ask by Mary Oliver
The Bridge Of Sighs by Stephen Orlen
Sun (2) by Michael Palmer
Movie by Bob Perelman
At Pleasure Bay by Robert Pinsky
Sappho Comments On An Exhibition Of Expressionist Landscapes by Anna Rabinowicz
The Shoebox by Mark Rudman
Valentino's Hair by Yvonne Sapia
Trappings by Lynda Schraufnagel
The Lost Golf Ball by David Shapiro
Tennyson by Karl Shapiro
The White Room by Charles Simic
The People Next Door by Louis Simpson
The Memory Of Cock Robin Dwarfs W.d. by William Dewitt Snodgrass
Building by Gary Snyder
Sunday Afternoon At Fulham Palace by Elizabeth Spires
Broken Gauges by David St. John
Last Day by William Edgar Stafford
Reading The Facts About Frost In The Norton Anthology by George Starbuck
Movie by Patricia Storace
Reading In Place by Mark Strand
Harvest, 1925 by Eleanor Ross Taylor
Trust Me by Jean Valentine
Lying by Richard Wilbur
The Muse Of Distance by Alan Williamson
Madrid by Jay Wright
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

From Publishers Weekly:

Flouting conventional wisdom, 1989 NBCC winner Hall boldly asserts, "More people read poetry now in the United States than ever did before." For this growing audience, Hall selects poetry well worth reading--provocative, finely crafted, emotionally resonant. Deliberately embracing eclecticism, Hall and poet/critic Lehman, series editor, cull 75 poems by such established writers as John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Merrill, Philip Levine and Richard Wilbur and from lesser-knowns and veritable unknowns. The result is an exhilarating compendium of talent with staggering diversity--dramatic monologues and vignettes, syllabics, blank verse, rhymed couplets and quatrains, free verse, surrealism, high romanticism, discursive irony, shameless erotica. But the piece de resistance here may be such ingenious narratives as David Dooley's witty monologue of a psychic in "The Reading" and Yvonne Sapia's retelling of her father's barbering in "Valentino's Hair." Despite attempts at regional inclusiveness, however, the anthology is miserly with poets from rural areas, the Midwest and the South.
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