The Best American Poetry 1996
The Best American Poetry 1996, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Adrienne Rich.
Poets and poems included
Poet | Poem | Where poem previously appeared |
Latif Asad Abdullah | "The Tombs" | Extracts from Pelican Bay |
Sherman Alexie | "Capital Punishment" | Indiana Review |
Margaret Atwood | "Morning in the Burned House" | North American Review |
Thomas Avena | "Cancer Garden" | The Occident |
Marie Annharte Baker | "Porkskin Panorama" | Callaloo |
Sidney Burris | "Strong's Winter" | The Southern Review |
Rosemary Catacalos | "David Talamantez on the Last Day of Second Grade" | The Texas Observer |
Marilyn Chin | "Cauldron" | The Kenyon Review |
Wanda Coleman | "American Sonnet (35)" | River City |
Jacqueline Dash | "Me Again" | In Time |
Ingrid de Kok | "Transfer" | TriQuarterly |
William Dickey | "The Arrival of the Titanic" | Poetry |
Nancy Eimers | "A Night Without Stars" | Alaska Review Quarterly |
Nancy Eimers | "A History of Navigation" | Poetry Northwest |
Martin Espada | "Rednecks" | Ploughshares |
Martin Espada | "Sleeping on the Bus" | The Progressive |
Beth Ann Fennelly | "Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding" | Farmer's Market |
Robert C. Fuentes | "In This Place" | Extracts from Pelican Bay |
Rámon Garcia, Salmo | "Para El" | The Americas Review |
Suzanne Gardinier | "Two Girls" | The American Voice |
Frank Gaspar | "Kapital" | The Kenyon Review |
Reginald Gibbons | "White Beach" | The Southern Review |
C. S. Giscombe | "All (Facts, Stories, Chance)" | River Styx |
Kimiko Hahn | "Possession: A Zuihitsu" | Another Chicago Magazine |
Gail Hanlon | "Plainsong" | Poetry Flash |
Henry Hart | "The Prisoner of Camau" | Beloit Poetry Journal |
William Heyen | "The Steadying" | Triquarterly |
Jonathan Johnson | "Renewal" | Cream City Review |
Jane Kenyon | "Reading Aloud to My Father" | Poetry |
August Kleinzahler | "Two Canadian Landscapes" | Private |
Yusef Komunyakaa | "Nude Study" | The Kenyon Review |
Stanley Kunitz | "Touch Me" | The New Yorker |
Natasha Le Bel | "Foot Fire Burn Dance" | Hanging Loose |
Natasha Le Bel | "Boxing the Female" | Hanging Loose |
Carolyn Lei-Lanilau | "Kolohe or Communication" | Manoa |
Valerie Martínez | "It Is Not" | Prairie Schooner |
Davis McCombs | "The River and Under the River" | No Roses Review |
Sandra McPherson | "Edge Effect" | Poetry |
James Merrill | "b o d y" | The New York Times |
W. S. Merwin | "Lament for the Makers" | Poetry |
Jane Miller | "Far Away" | Colorado Review |
Susan Mitchell | "Girl Tearing Up Her Face" | The Paris Review |
Pat Mora | "Mangos y limones" | Prairie Schooner |
Alice Notley | "One of the Longest Times" | Fourteen Hills |
Naomi Shihab Nye | "The Small Vases from Hebron" | Many Mountains Moving |
Alicia Ostriker | "The Eighth and Thirteenth" | Poetry Flash |
Raymond Patterson | "Harlem Suite" | Drumvoices Revue |
Carl Phillips | "As From a Quiver of Arrows" | The Atlantic Monthly |
Wing Ping | "Song of Calling Souls" | Sulfur |
Sterling Plumpp | "Poet and When the Spirit Spray-Paints the Sky" | TriQuarterly |
Katherine Alice Power | "Sestina for Jaime" | In Time |
Reynolds Price | "Twenty-One Years" | The Southern Review |
Alberto Alvaro Ríos | "Domingo Limón" | Prairie Schooner |
Pattiann Rogers | "Abundance and Satisfaction" | Iowa Review |
Quentin Rowan | "Prometheus at Coney Island" | Hanging Loose |
David Shapiro | "For the Evening Land" | Lingo |
Angela Shaw | "Crepuscule" | Poetry |
Reginald Shepherd | "Skin Trade" | Ploughshares |
Enid Shomer | "Passive Resistance" | Poetry |
Gary Soto | "Fair Trade" | Prairie Schooner |
Jean Starr | "Flight" | Callaloo |
Deborah Stein | "heat" | Hanging Loose |
Roberta Tejada | "Honeycomb perfection of this form before me..." | Sulfur |
Chase Twichell | "Aisle of Dogs" | Iowa Review |
Luís Alberto Urrea | "Ghost Sickness" | Many Mountains Moving |
Jean Valentine | "Tell Me, What Is the Soul" | The New Yorker |
Alma Luz Villanueva | "Crazy Courage" | Prairie Schooner |
Karen Volkman | "The Case" | The Paris Review |
Diane Wakoski | "The Butcher's Apron" | Many Mountains Moving |
Ron Welburn | "Yellow Wolf Spirit" | Callaloo |
Susan Wheeler | "Run on a Warehouse" | The Paris Review |
Paul Wilis | "Meeting Like This" | Weber Studies |
Anne Winters | "The Mill-Race" | TriQuarterly |
C. Dale Young | "Vespers" | The Southern Review |
Ray A. Young Bear | "Our Bird Aegis" | Callaloo |
See also
Notes
External links
- Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared
- Drumvoices Revue, vol. 4 -- Raymond Patterson's "Harlem Suite" is on p. 136-137
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