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Details

Additional authors

1. Strand, Mark, 1934-2014
2. Lehman, David, 1948-
3. Dedalus Foundation, donor NN

Description

1. xvii, 326 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

1. Mark Strand, the fourth poet laureate of the United States, has selected 75 poems by new and established poets, all culled from magazines published in 1990. The volume presents a clear cross-section of current American poetry writing at its best. They include sonnets and songs, elegies, verse essays, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems. The subjects range from nature to myths, dreams, and memories. The settings include a hospital ward, a beauty parlor, a playground, a lunch counter, a country fair, and the Metropolitan Opera. While big names such as Donald Hall, James Merrill, Jane Kenyon, John Ashbery, and Joseph Brodsky are out in force, the volume includes the works of newcomers: Robert Polito's "Evidence" (a novel in verse), Mark Levine's "Work Song," Daniel Hoffman's "Who We Are," and David Trinidad's "Reruns," a sitcom haiku. ISBN 0-02-069844-5: $12.95.

Series statement

1. The Best American poetry series

Uniform title

1. Best American poetry.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. American poetry > 20th century

Contents

1. The voice from Paxos / Jonathan Aaron -- Evidence: from a reporter's notebook / Ai -- Talking with poets / Dick Allen -- Bookmaking / Julia Alvarez -- Cigarettes / John Ash -- Of dreams and dreaming / John Ashbery -- Great stone face / George Bradley -- In memory of my father: Australia / Joseph Brodsky -- Double sonnet for Mickey / Gerald Burns -- A whippoorwill in the woods / Amy Clampitt -- Blue lonely dreams / Marc Cohen -- Infernal regions and the invisible girl / Alfred Corn -- Desire / Stephen Dobyns -- Bringing it down / Stephen Dunn -- The recording angel / Carolyn Forche -- The fractal lanes / Alice Fulton -- Celestial music / Louise Gluck -- The phase after history / Jorie Graham -- The consolation of Boethius / Melissa Green -- The afterlife / Debora Greger -- Safe / Linda Gregerson -- The ether dome (an entertainment) / Allen Grossman -- The beautician / Thom Gunn -- Tubes / Donald Hall -- Garden / Brooks Haxton -- Who we are / Daniel Hoffman -- The see-saw / John Hollander -- Desire / Paul Hoover -- Second nature / Ron Horning -- What word did the Greeks have for it? / Richard Howard -- The woods / Josephine Jacobsen -- Body and soul / Donald Justice -- Elegy / Vickie Karp -- A flower for the new year / Robert Kelly -- Let evening come / Jane Kenyon -- The diva's first song (White's Hotel, London) / Karl Kirchwey -- Marriage song / Carolyn Kizer -- A time zone / Kenneth Koch -- Morning in America / John Koethe -- Work song / Mark Levine -- Dark songs: slave house and synagogue / Laurence Lieberman -- At the classics teacher's / Elizabeth Macklin -- An essay on friendship / J.D. McClatchy -- Smash and scatteration / James McManus -- The 'ring' cycle / James Merrill -- Sky of clouds / Susan Mitchell -- Benedick's complaints: Much Ado About Nothing / Gary Mitchner -- Protracted episode / A.F. Moritz -- Lunchcounter freedom / Thylias Moss -- Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942 / Joyce Carol Oates.
2. Chronic meanings / Bob Perelman -- Evidence / Robert Polito -- Night subway / Katha Pollitt -- Into the open / Susan Prospere -- The new reforms / Jack Roberts -- Merlin / David St. John -- Two poems / Sherod Santos -- Leaves / Lloyd Schwartz -- Past lives / Robyn Selman -- The seasons / David Shapiro -- Living color / Laurie Sheck -- Country fair / Charles Simic -- The wound / David R. Slavitt -- The woman as figure / Charlie Smith -- The Haiku master / Elizabeth Spires -- For seven women / Ruth Stone -- War movie: last leave, 1944 / Patricia Storace -- I am a Finn / James Tate -- Reminiscence forward / Molly Tenenbaum -- Reruns / David Trinidad -- Revenge / Chase Twichell -- Omeros / Derek Walcott -- Song / Rosanna Warren -- Lasting influence / Susan Wheeler -- Reading Lao Tzu again in the new year / Charles Wright.

Call number

1. ReCAP 24-12168

Source (note)

1. of the Dedalus Foundation;

Title

1. The Best American poetry, 1991 / Mark Strand, editor and David Lehman, series editor.

Publisher

1. New York : Collier Books, [1991]

Edition

1. First Collier books editioin.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. The Best American poetry series
2. Best American poetry.

Local note

1. Copy in ReCAP 24-12168 inscribed.

Source

1. Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2024. NN

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Strand, Mark, 1934-2014.
2. Lehman, David, 1948-
3. Dedalus Foundation, donor NN

LCCN

1. 88644281

ISBN

1. 0220698445 (pbk.)
2. 9780020698449 (paperback)
3. 0020698445 (paperback)

Research call number

1. ReCAP 24-12168