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The Best American Poetry: 1992 (Best American Poetry)
The Best American Poetry 1992 - Best American Poetry Author:David Lehman A selection of 75 poems by new and established poets, culled from the pages of nearly three dozen magazines published in the past year. — Dance mania / Jonathan Aaron — I see Chile in my rearview mirror / Agha Shahid Ali — The ungrateful citizens / John Ash — Poem at the new year / John Ashbery — Midwestern villanelle / Robin Behn — How I painted cert... more »ain of my pictures / Charles Bernstein
Healing / George Bilgere
Dear, my compass / Elizabeth Bishop
The crippled godwit / Robert Bly
Inevitably, she declined / Lucie Brock-Broido
Homage to Gerolamo Marcello /Joseph Brodsky
Sex / Hayden Carruth
Nostalgia / Billy Collins
Other / Robert Creeley
Famous women
Claudette Colbert / Kathleen de Azevedo
Spring letter / Carl Dennis
My amaryllis / Deborah Digges
Smiles / Stephen Dunn
The bright waterfall of angels / Susan Firer
A little heart-to-heart with the horizon / Alice Fulton
We're all pharaohs when we die / Tess Gallagher
On wanting to grow horns / Amy Gertler
Voices inside and out / Jack Gilbert
Vespers / Louise GluÌck
Body will / Jill Gonet
Manifest destiny / Jorie Graham
Poland of death (IV) / Allen Grossman
Elysian fields / Marilyn Hacker
Spring Glen grammar school / Donald Hall
Infidelities / Daniel Halpern
My mother's nipples / Robert Hass
St. Luke painting the Virgin / Vicki Hearne
Iowa blues bar spiritual / Juan Felipe Herrera
Man on a fire escape / Edward Hirsch
Identities / Daniel Hoffman
Days of autumn / John Hollander
Like most revelations / Richard Howard
Lost fugue for Chet / Lynda Hull
Some sort of chronicler I am / Lawrence Joseph
The man on the hotel room bed / Galway Kinnell
Twelve o'clock / Carolyn Kizer
Admission of failure / Phyllis Koestenbaum
Mystery stories / Sharon Krinsky
Saga: four variations on the sonnet / Maxine Kumin
Green / Evelyn Lau
This hour ans what is dead / Li-Young Lee
Across these landscapes of early darkness / Dionisio D. MartiÌnez
All Hallows' Eve / Mekeel McBride
...the storm is passing over ; she sang / James McCorkle
Terminal / Jerry McGuire
Choosing an author for assurance in the night / Sandra McPherson
Honey / Robert Morgan
An anointing / Thylias Moss
Red trousseau / Carol Muske
Rain / Mary Oliver
Eighth sky / Micheal Palmer
Avenue / Robert Pinsky
The sudden appearance of a monster at a window / Lawrence Raab
The night the lightening bugs lit last in the field then went their way / Liam Rector