The Best American Poetry 1992
The Best American Poetry 1992, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Charles Simic.
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The Best American Poetry 1992 book cover
In the Forward, Lehman writes, "No critic will ever have the effect on our poets than certain of their grade school teachers had — the ones often credited by the poets themselves for their lifelong devotion to the art."[1]
Lehman's forward also mentioned various public comments about the nation's lack of interest in poetry and questions about its future.
Poets and poems included
Poet | Poem | Where poem previously appeared |
Jonathan Aaron | "Dance Mania" | The Paris Review |
Agha Shahid Ali | "I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror" | Field |
John Ash | "The Ungrateful Citizens" | The Paris Review |
John Ashbery | "Poem at the New Year" | The New Yorker |
Robin Behn | "Midwestern Villanelle" | Iowa Review |
Charles Bernstein | "How I Painted Certain of My Pictures" | Hambone |
George Bilgere | "Healing" | Iowa Review |
Elizabeth Bishop | "Dear, My Compass..." | The New Yorker |
Robert Bly | "The Crippled Godwit" | Ploughshares |
Lucie Brock-Broido | "Inevitably, She Declined" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
Joseph Brodsky | "Homage to Gerolamo Marcello" | The New Yorker |
Hayden Carruth | "Sex" | The Sewanee Review |
Billy Collins | "Nostalgia" | The Georgia Review |
Robert Creeley | "Other" | Grand Street |
Kathleen de Azevedo | "Famous Women--Claudette Colbert" | Fine Madness |
Carl Dennis | "Spring Letter" | Poetry |
Deborah Digges | "My Amaryllis" | Ploughshares |
Stephen Dunn | "Smiles" | Iowa Review |
Susan Firer | "The Bright Waterfall of Angels" | Iowa Review |
Alice Fulton | "A Little Heart-to-Heart with the Horizon" | Ploughshares |
Tess Gallagher | "We're All Pharaohs When We Die" | The Paris Review |
Amy Gerstler | "On Wanting to Grow Horns" | Witness |
Jack Gilbert | "Voices Inside and Out" | Ploughshares |
Louise Glück | "Vespers" | The New Yorker |
Jill Gonet | "Body Will" | ZYZZYVA |
Jorie Graham | "Manifest Destiny" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
Allen Grossman | "Poland of Death (IV)" | Tikkun |
Marilyn Hacker | "Elysian Fields" | The Paris Review |
Donald Hall | "Spring Glen Grammar School" | The New Yorker |
Daniel Halpern | "Infidelities" | The Paris Review |
Robert Hass | "My Mother's Nipples" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
Vickie Hearne | "St. Luke Painting the Virgin" | Raritan |
Juan Felipe Herrera | "Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual" | New England Review |
Edward Hirsch | "Man on a Fire Escape" | The New Yorker |
Daniel Hoffman | "Identities" | Boulevard |
John Hollander | "Days of Autumn" | Grand Street |
Richard Howard | "Like Most Revelations" | Boston Phoenix |
Lynda Hull | "Lost Fugue for Chet" | The Kenyon Review |
Lawrence Joseph | "Some Sort of Chronicler I Am" | The Kenyon Review |
Galway Kinnell | "The Man on the Hotel Room Bed" | The Ohio Review |
Carolyn Kizer | "Twelve O'clock" | The Paris Review |
Phyllis Koestenbaum | "Admission of Failure" | Epoch |
Sharon Krinsky | "Mystery Stories" | Brooklyn Review |
Maxine Kumin | "Saga: Four Variations on the Sonnet" | Ploughshares |
Evelyn Lao | "Green" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
Li-Young Lee | "This Hour and What Is Dead" | Ploughshares |
Dionisio D. Martínez | "Across These Landscapes of Early Darkness" | Iowa Review |
Mekeel McBride | "All Hallows' Eve" | North American Review |
James McCorkle | "" . . .The Storm is Passing Over"; She Sang" | Verse |
Jerry McGuire | "Terminal" | Callaloo |
Sandra McPherson | "Choosing an Author for Assurance in the Night" | Field |
Robert Morgan | "Honey" | The Atlantic Monthly |
Thylias Moss | "An Anointing" | Epoch |
Carol Muske | "Red Trousseau" | American Poetry Review |
Mary Oliver | "Rain" | Poetry |
Michael Palmer | "Eighth Sky" | Grand Street |
Robert Pinsky | "Avenue" | Boston Phoenix |
Lawrence Raab | "The Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window" | Denver Quarterly |
Liam Rector | "The Night the Lightning Bugs Lit Last in the Field Then Went Their Way" | AGNI |
Donald Revell | "Plenitude" | New Letters |
Adrienne Rich | "For a Friend in Travail" | Poetry |
Len Roberts | "We Sat, So Patient" | Boulevard |
Lynda Schraufnagel | "Trial" | Western Humanities Review |
Elizabeth Spires | "Good Friday. Driving Westward." | The New Criterion |
Rachel Srubas | "I Want to Marry You" | Another Chicago Magazine |
David St. John | "Lucifer in Starlight" | Denver Quarterly |
Richard Tillinghast | "Anatolian Journey" | The New Yorker |
Lewis Turco | "Kamelopard" | The Formalist |
Chase Twichell | "Word Silence" | The Yale Review |
Rosanna Warren | "Necrophiliac" | The Atlantic Monthly |
Ioanna-Veronika Warwick | "Eyeglasses" | Exquisite Corpse |
C. K. Williams | "The Knot" | Antaeus |
Charles Wright | "Winter-Worship" | Field |
Franz Wright | "Depiction of Childhood" | Field |
Stephen Yenser | "Vertumnal" | The Yale Review |
Publications most frequently represented
In order of frequency, these are the publications most represented this year:
See also
Notes
- Lehman, David, Forward, The Best American Poetry 1992, 1992, page xi
External links
- Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared
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