THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1990
Guest Editor: JORIE GRAHAM

 
 
 

Table of Contents

A. R. Ammons, The Damned
Appeared in: The Yale Review
John Ash, The Sweeping Gesture
Appeared in: Broadway
John Ashbery, Notes from the Air
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Marvin Bell, Victim of Himself
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Stephen Berg, First Song/Bankei/1653/
Appeared in: Denver Quarterly
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Jealousy
Appeared in: Empathy
Hayden Carruth, Crucifixion
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Anne Carson, The Life of Towns
Appeared in: Grand Street
Raymond Carver, Wake Up
Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review
Amy Clampitt, My Cousin Muriel
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Killarney Clary, "Boys on street corners in Santa Ana..."
Appeared in: Who Whispered Near Me
Robert Creeley, Thinking
Appeared in: Harvard Magazine
Christopher Davis, Dying in Your Garden of Death to Go Back into My Garden
Appeared in: The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future
Tom Disch, The Crumbling Infrastructure
Appeared in: Southwest Review
Norman Dubie, Of Politics & Art
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Aaron Fogel, The Chessboard Is on Fire
Appeared in: Boulevard
James Galvin, To the Republic
Appeared in: New Letters
Suzanne Gardinier, This Land
Appeared in: Grand Street
Amy Gerstler, The Ice Age
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Linda Gregg, The War
Appeared in: New Letters
Thom Gunn, Duncan
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Donald Hall, Praise for Death
Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review
Daniel Halpern, Bell & Capitol
Appeared in: Ontario Review
Robert Hass, Berkeley Eclogue
Appeared in: Human Wishes
Seamus Heaney, Crossings
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Anthony Hecht, Eclogue of the Shepherd and the Townie
Appeared in: The Sewanee Review
Emily Hiestand, On Nothing
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Brenda Hillman, No Greener Pastures
Appeared in: Fortress
John Hollander, An Old-Fashioned Song
Appeared in: The New Republic
Virginia Hooper, Climbing Out of the Cage
Appeared in: Denver Quarterly
Richard Howard, The Victor Vanquished
Appeared in: Antaeus
Fanny Howe, Perfection and Derangement
Appeared in: O.blek
Rodney Jones, On the Bearing of Waitresses
Appeared in: Transparent Gestures
Galway Kinnell, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Edward Kleinschmidt, Gangue
Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It
Appeared in: Dien Cai Dau
Denise Levertov, Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Philip Levine, Scouting
Appeared in: Western Humanities Review
Thomas Lux, Time
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Nathaniel Mackey, Slipped Quadrant
Appeared in: Avec
Kevin Magee, Road
Appeared in: Hambone
Thomas McGrath, Afternoon of a McGrath
Appeared in: The Nation
Lynne McMahon, Barbie's Ferrari
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Jane Mead, Concerning That Prayer I Cannot Make
Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review
James Merrill, Quatrains for Pegasus
Appeared in: The Nation
W. S. Merwin, The Morning Train
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Jane Miller, Adoration
Appeared in: Black Warrior Review
Susan Mitchell, Havana Birth
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Paul Monette, The Worrying
Appeared in: Love Alone
Laura Moriarty, La Malinche
Appeared in: Temblor
Thylias Moss, There Will Be Animals
Appeared in: Pyramid of Bone
Melinda Mueller, Teratology
Appeared in: Fine Madness
Laura Mullen, They
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Alice Notley, (2 pages from a long poem in progress)
Appeared in: How(ever)
Michael Palmer, Six Hermetic Songs
Appeared in: Sulfur
Robert Pinsky, Pilgrimage
Appeared in: Antaeus
Jendi Reiter, Service Includes Free Lifetime Updating
Appeared in: Hanging Loose
Joan Retallack, Japanese Presentation, I & II
Appeared in: O.blek
Donald Revell, The Old Causes
Appeared in: Boulevard
Adrienne Rich, Living Memory
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Michael Ryan, Switchblade
Appeared in: God Hunger
James Schuyler, Haze
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Frederick Seidel, AIDS Days
Appeared in: These Days
Charles Simic, The Initiate
Appeared in: Antaeus
Gustaf Sobin, Transparent Itineraries: 1984
Appeared in: Voyaging Portraits
Elizabeth Spires, Primos
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
David St. John, Last Night with Rafaella
Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review
Gerald Stem, Saving My Skin from Burning
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Mark Strand, Orpheus Alone
Appeared in: The New Yorker
James Tate, Distance from Loved Ones
Appeared in: Denver Quarterly
Sidney Wade, Aurora Borealis and the Body Louse
Appeared in: Grand Street
Rosanna Warren, The Cormorant
Appeared in: Boulevard
Richard Wilbur, A Wall in the Woods: Cummington
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Eleanor Wilner, Reading the Bible Backwards
Appeared in: Sarah's Choice
Charles Wright, Saturday Moming Joumal
Appeared in: Antaeus

 

 
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