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 JournalWilliam 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" LingoAngela 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

The Best American Poetry 1996

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