The Best American Poetry 1999

The Best American Poetry 1999, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Robert Bly.

Poets and poems included Poet Poem Where poem previously appeared Dick Allen "The Selfishness of the Poetry Reader" The Café Review John Balaban "Story" Verse Coleman Barks "Bill Matthews Coming Along (1942-1997)" Figdust George Bilgere "Catch" The Sewanee Review Elizabeth Bishop "Foreign-Domestic" Conjunctions Chana Bloch "Tired Sex" The Atlantic Monthly Philip Booth "Narrow Road, Presidents' Day" American Poetry Review John Brehm "Sea of Faith" The Southern Review Hayden Carruth "Because I Am" Seneca Review Lucille Clifton "the mississippi river empties into the gulf" River City Billy Collins "Dharma" Poetry Robert Creeley "Mitch" Solo Lydia Davis "Betrayal" Hambone Debra Kang Dean "Taproot" Crab Orchard Review Chard deNiord "Pasternak" New England Review Russell Edson "Madam's Heart" The Prose Poem Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Buddha in the Woodpile" Blasts Dan Gerber "My Father's Fields" Poetry Louise Glück "Vita Nova" The New Yorker Ray Gonzalez "Breastbone" The Bitter Oleander John Haines "The Last Election" Many Mountains Moving Donald Hall "Smile" The Yale Review Jennifer Michael Hecht "September" The Antioch Review Bob Hicok "What Would Freud Say?" Cream City Review Jane Hirshfield "The Envoy" Blue Sofa Tony Hoagland "Lawrence" Ploughshares John Hollander "Beach Whispers" The New Yorker Amy Holman "Man Script" Literal Latte David Ignatow "The Story of Progress" Verse Gray Jacobik "The Circle Theatre" Alkali Flats Josephine Jacobsen "Last Will and Testament" Potomac Review Louis Jenkins "Two Prose Poems" Rosebud Mary Karr "The Patient" Poetry X. J. Kennedy "A Curse on a Thief" Harvard Review Galway Kinnell "Why Regret?" The New Yorker Carolyn Kizer "The Erotic Philosophers" The Yale Review Ron Koertge "1989" Solo Yusef Komunyakaa "Scapegoat" Ontario Review William Kulik "The Triumph of Narcissus and Aphrodite" Black Warrior Review James Laughlin "Nunc Dimittis" DoubleTake Dorianne Laux "The Shipfitter's Wife" DoubleTake Li-Young Lee "The Sleepless Grape" Water Stone Denise Levertov "First Love" Kalliope Philip Levine "The Return" The Atlantic MonthlyDavid Mamet "A Charade" Ploughshares Gigi Marks "The Swim" Poetry William Matthews "Misgivings" Poetry Wesley McNair "The Characters of Dirty Jokes" Mid-American Review Czesław Miłosz "A Ball" Partisan Review Joan Murray from "Sonny's Face. Sonny's Hands" The Southern Review Sharon Olds "What It Meant" The Southern Review Mary Oliver "Flare" Shenandoah Franco Pagnucci "And Now" Acorn Molly Peacock "Say You Love Me" Fence Alberto Ríos "Writing from Memory" Meridian David Ray "Hemingway's Garden" New Millennium Writings Adrienne Rich "Seven Skins" The Progressive Kay Ryan "That Will to Divest" The Yale Review Sonia Sanchez "Last recording session/for papa joe" Painted Bride Quarterly Revan Schendler "The Public and the Private Spheres" Salmagundi Myra Shapiro "Longing and Wonder" Common Sense Charles Simic "Barber College Haircut" AGNI Louis Simpson "A Shearling Coat" The Hudson Review Thomas R. Smith "Housewarming" AGNI Marcia Southwick "A Star Is Born in the Eagle Nebula" The Gettysburg Review William Stafford "Ways to Live" Cream City Review Peggy Steele "The Drunkard's Daughter" Blue Sofa Ruth Stone "A Moment" Paterson Literary Review Larissa Szporluk "Deer Crossing the Sea" Green Mountains Review Diane Thiel "The Minefield" Tor House Newsletter David Wagoner "Thoreau and the Crickets" Ploughshares Richard Wilbur "This Pleasing Anxious Being" The New Yorker C.K. Williams "Archetypes" Ontario Review Charles Wright "American Twilight" Partisan Review Timothy Young "The Thread of Sunlight" The Journal of Family Life

The Best American Poetry 1999

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