THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1988
Guest Editor: JOHN ASHBERY

 
 
 

Table of Contents

A. R. Ammons, Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything
Appeared in: The Hudson Review
Ralph Angel, Shadow Play
Appeared in: Poetry
Rae Armantrout, Bases
Appeared in: O.blek
John Ash, Memories of Italy
Appeared in: Disbelief
John Ashbery, One Coat of Paint
Appeared in: Shenandoah
Ted Berrigan, My Autobiography
Appeared in: New American Writing
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Chinese Space
Appeared in: Conjunctions
George Bradley, Noch Einmal, an Orpheus
Appeared in: Grand Street
Stefan Brecht, Momentariness
Appeared in: Tyuonyi
Joseph Brodsky, To Urania
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Nicholas Christopher, Miranda inReno
Appeared in: The New Republic
Marc Cohen, Mecox Road
Appeared in: Verse
Wanda Coleman, Essay on Language
Appeared in: Heavy Daughter Blues
Clark Coolidge, A Monologue
Appeared in: O.blek
Alfred Corn, New Year
Appeared in: Partisan Review
Douglas Crase, Dog Star Sale
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Robert Creeley, The Dream
Appeared in: Exquisite Corpse
Tom Disch, In Memoriam
Appeared in: Boulevard
Kenward Elmslie, Top O' Silo
Appeared in: Conjunctions
Alice Fulton, Losing It
Appeared in: Epoch
Amy Gerstler, marriage
Appeared in: New American Writing
Jorie Graham, On Difficulty
Appeared in: The End of Beauty
Deborah Greger, Snow White and Rose Red
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Allen Grossman, The Piano Player Explains Himself
Appeared in: Grand Street
Barbara Guest, Words
Appeared in: Tyuonyi
Rachel Hadas, Nourishment
Appeared in: Boulevard
Donald Hall, Prophecy
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Robert Hass, Thin Air
Appeared in: Antaeus
Seamus Heaney, A Shooting Script
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Anthony Hecht, Envoi
Appeared in: The Yale Review
Gerrit Henry, The Confessions of Gerrit
Appeared in: Mudfish
John Hollander, An Old Story is Retold
Appeared in: Partisan Review
Richard Howard, The Foreigner Remembered by a Local Man
Appeared in: For Nelson Mandela
Donald Justice, Nostalgia of the Lakefronts
Appeared in: Antaeus
Robert Kelly, Hercules Musarum
Appeared in: Tyuonyi
Kevin Killiam, Pasolini
Appeared in: Shiny International
August Kleinzahler, Soda Water with a Boyhood Friend
Appeared in: New American Writing
Carolina Knox, Movement Along the Frieze
Appeared in: New American Writing
Kenneth Koch, What People Say About Paris
Appeared in: Poetry
John Koethe, Mistral
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Philip Lamantia, Unachieved
Appeared in: Sulfur
Ann Lauterbach, Psyche's Dream
Appeared in: Before Recollection
David Lehman, Operation Memory
Appeared in: Shenandoah
Philip Levine, A Walk with Tom Jefferson
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Nathaniel Mackey, Degree Four
Appeared in: Conjunctions
Michael Malinowitz, Funeral March for a Papagallo
Appeared in: Aerial
Tom Mandel, Hungry and Waiting
Appeared in: Sulfur
Harry Matthews, Histoire
Appeared in: Armenian Papers
Bernadette Mayer, Holding the Thought of Love
Appeared in: Exquisite Corpse
James Merrill, Farewell Performance
Appeared in: Grand Street
Eileen Myles, Public Television
Appeared in: Shiny International
A. L. Nielson, Route E
Appeared in: Aerial
Ron Padgett, Light As Air
Appeared in: Boulevard
Michael Palmer, From C
Appeared in: O.blek
Bob Perelman, Politics
Appeared in: O.blek
Robert Pinsky, The Hearts
Appeared in: The New Republic
Donald Revell, St. Lucy's Day
Appeared in: Poetry
Joe Ross, From Act I, Scene II of Guards of the Heart
Appeared in: Aerial
Leslie Scalapino, Jumping-jack flash
Appeared in: Conjunctions
James Schuyler, Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey!
Appeared in: Poetry
David Shapiro, Empathy for David Winfield
Appeared in: Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball
Charles Simic, St Thomas Aquinas
Appeared in: Antaeus
Gary Snyder, Walking the New York Bedrock Alive in the Sea of Information
Appeared in: Sulfur
Ruth Stone, The Latest Hotel Guest Walks Over Particles That Revolve in Seven Other Dimensions Controlling Latticed Space
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
May Swenson, Dummy, 51, to Go to Museum. Ventriloquist Dead at 75
Appeared in: In Other Words
James Tate, Neighbors
Appeared in: Sonora Review
Lydia Tomkiw, Six of Ox Is
Appeared in: New American Writing
Derek Walcott, Elsewhere
Appeared in: The Arkansas Testament
Rosanne Wasserman, Inuit and Seal
Appeared in: Sulfur
Majorie Welish, Respected, Feared, and Somehow Loved
Appeared in: O.blek
Susan Wheeler, What Memory Reveals
Appeared in: Sulfur
Richard Wilbur, Trolling for Blues
Appeared in: Poetry
Alan Williamson, Recitation for Dismantling the Hydrogen Bomb
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
John Yau, Genghis Chan: Private Eye
Appeared in: Sulfur
Geoffrey Young, Drive, It Said
Appeared in: New American Writing

 

 
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