The Best American Poetry, 1995 - Hardcover

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9780684801506: The Best American Poetry, 1995

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ISBN 10: 0684801507 ISBN 13: 9780684801506

Publisher: Scribner, 1995

A collection of the seventy-five best poems of the year features variety in theme and style, more newcomers, more women contributors, and the eclectic tastes of guest editor Richard Howard, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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About the Author:

David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include Poems in the Manner Of, New and Selected Poems, Yeshiva Boys, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. His most recent nonfiction book is Sinatra’s Century. He teaches at The New School and lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Review:

Bored by Margaret Atwood
Nocturnal by Sally Ball
Mr. X by Catherine Bowman
Schadenfreude by Stephanie Brown
The Woman Who Loved Things by Stephanie Brown
Sunday, Tarzan In His Hammock by Lewis Buzbee
The Battle Hymn Of The Republic by Rafael Campo
Girl Writing A Letter by William Carpenter
Terminus by Nicholas Christopher
The Infusion Room by Jane Cooper
Sestina by James Cummins
Thirty Years Rising by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Film Noir: Train Trip Out Of Metropolis by Lynn Emanuel
Sometimes I Get Distracted by Elaine Equi
Terminal Laughs by Irving Feldman
In The Clearing by Donald Finkel
The Printer's Error by Aaron Fogel
For A Brother by Richard Frost
Salutations To Fernando Pessoa by Allen Ginsberg
Another Day On The Pilgrimage by Peter Gizzi
Asparagus by Jody Gladding
Undead White European Male by Elton Glaser
A Still Life, Symbolic Of Lines by Albert Goldbarth
Being Pharaoh by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Permissive Entry: A Sermon On Fame by Laurence Goldstein
If So by Barbara Guest
Days Of 1992 by Marilyn Hacker
St. Peregrinus' Cancer by Judith Hall
Prospects by Anthony Hecht
Unearthly Voices by Edward Hirsch
Against The Literal by Janet Holmes
Seventeen by Andrew Hudgins
Apocatastasis Foretold In The Shape Of A Canvas Of Smoke by T. R. Hummer
All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Sonogram by Karl Kirchwey
On A Line From Valery by Carolyn Kizer
Erotic Collectibles: 1975 by Wayne Koestenbaum
Falling Water by John Koethe
Troubling The Water by Yusef Komunyakaa
Getting The Message by Maxine W. Kumin
Bridget by Lisa Lewis
My Night With Philip Larkin by Rachel Loden
Refuge by Robert Hill Long
What You Find In The Woods by James Longenbach
Fracture Santa Monica by Gail Mazur
My Mammogram by Joseph Donald Mcclatchy
And What Do You Get by Heather Mchugh
Exchange Of Fire by Susan Musgrave
Shooting For Line by Charles Laurence North
The Interior Prisoner by Geoffrey (1948-) O'brien
Late Night Tete-a-tete With A Moon In Transit by Jacqueline Osherow
Have You Ever Faked An Orgasm? (1) by Molly Peacock
Toys by Carl Phillips
Old Mama Saturday by Marie Ponsot
How Light Is Spent by Bin Ramke
How Late Desire Looks by Katrina Roberts
The Night Before His Parents' First Trip To Europe by Michael J. Rosen
Outsider Art by Kay Ryan
The Age Of Reason by Mary Jo Salter
Transit Authority by Tony Sanders
Threads by Stephen Sandy
The Present Perfect by Grace Schulman
Avec Amour by Robyn Selman
Manufacturing by Alan Shapiro
Brotherhood by Reginald Shepherd
Museum Piece by Angela Sorby
The Nursery by Laurel Trivelpiece
Scatter by Paul Randolph Violi
Walt Whitman Bathing by David Wagoner
The Shape Of History by Charles Harper Webb
San Joaquin Valley Poems: 1969: 1. After Mail Call by Ed Webster
San Joaquin Valley Poems: 1969: 2. Juvenilia by Ed Webster
San Joaquin Valley Poems: 1969: 3. After Reading Jarrell by Ed Webster
San Joaquin Valley Poems: 1969: 4. In Lemoore by Ed Webster
Homage To Ryszard Kapuscinski by David Wojahn
The Cradle Logic Of Autumn by Jay Wright
Blue Guide by Stephen Yenser
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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