The Best American Poetry 1993, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Louise Glück.
Poets and poems included Poet Poem Where poem previously appeared A. R. Ammons "Garbage" American Poetry Review John Ashbery "Baked Alaska" The New Yorker Michael Atkinson "The Same Trouble with Beauty You've Always Had" Ontario Review Stephen Berg "Cold Cash" The Kenyon Review Sophie Cabot Black "Interrogation" AGNI Stephanie Brown "Chapter One" American Poetry Review Charles Bukowski "Three Oranges" OnTheBus Hayden Carruth "At His Last Gig" The Ohio Review Tom Clark "Statue" American Poetry Review Killarney Clary ""An Unlikely One Will Guide Me..."" Ploughshares Marc Cohen "Sometimes in Winter" Santa Monica Review Billy Collins "Tuesday, June 4th, 1991" Poetry Peter Cooley "Macular Degeneration" Iowa Review Carolyn Creedon "litany" American Poetry Review Barbara Cully "Repressed Theme" Free Lunch Carl Dennis "The Window in Spring" Shenandoah Tim Dlugos "Healing the World from Battery Park" Hanging Loose Stephen Dobyns "Favorite Iraqi Soldier" The Paris Review Denise Duhamel "Feminism" Hanging Loose Stephen Dunn "The Vanishings" The Paris Review Roger Fanning "Shoelace" Phoebe Alice B. Fogel "The Necessity" Boston ReviewTess Gallagher "One Kiss" Fine Madness Albert Goldbarth "Life Is Happy," Boulevard Jorie Graham "What the Instant Contains" Epoch (magazine) Allen Grossman "Great Work Farm Elegy" Colorado Review Thom Gunn "The Butcher's Son" The New Yorker Donald Hall "Pluvia" The Nation Mark Halliday "Vegetable Wisdom" The Virginia Quarterly Review Daniel Halpern "Argument" Western Humanities Review Paul Hoover "Theory" Ploughshares David Ignatow "Absolutely" Boulevard Josephine Jacobsen "Hourglass" The New Yorker Mark Jarman "Questions for Ecclesiastes" New England Review Rodney Jones "Grand Projection" New England Review Donald Justice "Invitation to a Ghost" Sewanee Theological Review Brigit Pegeen Kelly "The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery" The Gettysburg Review Robert Kelly "Mapping" Grand Street Jane Kenyon "Having It Out with Melancholy" Poetry Pamela Kircher "Looking at the Sea" The Ohio Review Kenneth Koch "Talking to Patrizia" Poetry Phyllis Koestenbaum "Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor" Poetry New York Stanley Kunitz "Chariot" The Gettysburg Review Denise Levertov "In California During the Gulf War" American Poetry Review Lisa Lewis "The Urinating Man" Poetry East Thomas Lux "Grim Town in a Steep Valley" Field Elizabeth Macklin "The Nearsighted" The New Yorker Tom Mandel "Open Rebuke (Concealed Love)" Hambone James McMichael from "The Person She Is" TriQuarterly Sandra McPherson "Waiting for Lesser Duckweed: On a Proposal of lssa's" Iowa Review W.S. Merwin "The Stranger" Poetry Susan Mitchell "Rapture" Provincetown Arts A. F. Moritz "April Fool's Day, Mount Pleasant Cemetery" Spoon River Quarterly Mary Oliver "Poppies" The Kenyon Review Ron Padgett "Advice to Young Writers" The World Michael Palmer "Who Is to Say" Epoch Lucia Maria Perillo "Skin" Ontario Review Wang Ping "Of Flesh and Spirit" The World Lawrence Raab "Magic Problems" Shenandoah Adrienne Rich "Not Somewhere Else, But Here" Southwest Review Laura Riding "Makeshift" Chelsea Gjertrud Schnackenberg "Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ" The Yale Review Hugh Seidman "Icon" Pequod Charles Simic "This Morning" The New Yorker Louis Simpsom "Suddenly" The Hudson Review Gary Snyder "Ripples on the Surface" Grand Street Gerald Stern "Coleman Valley Road" Black Warrior Review Ruth Stone "That Winter" American Poetry Review Mark Strand from "Dark Harbor" The New Republic James Tate "In My Own Backyard" American Poetry Review John Updike "To a Former Mistress, Now Dead" Poetry Ellen Bryant Voigt "Song and Story" The Atlantic Monthly Susan Wheeler "A Filial Republic" No Roses Review C. K. Williams "A Dream of Mind: The Gap" The Threepenny Review Dean Young "The Business of Love Is Cruelty" Poetry East
See also 1993 in poetry
Notes
External links Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared