THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2002
Guest Editor: ROBERT CREELEY

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Rae Armantrout, Up to Speed
Appeared in: Chicago Review
John Ashbery, The Pearl Fishers
Appeared in: Verse
Amiri Baraka, The Golgotha Local
Appeared in: Skanky Possom
Charles Bernstein, 12²
Appeared in: Slope
Anselm Berrigan, from Zero Star Hotel
Appeared in: Bombay Gin
Frank Bidart, Injunction
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Jenny Boully, The Body
Appeared in: Seneca Review
T. Alan Broughton, Ballad of the Comely Woman
Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal
Michael Burkard, What I Threw into the Grave
Appeared in: jubilat
Anne Carson, Opposed Glimpse of Alice James, Garth James, Henry James, Robertson James and William James
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Elizabeth Biller Chapman, On the Screened Porch
Appeared in: Poetry
Tom Clark, Lullaby for Cuckoo
Appeared in: Skanky Possom
Peter Cooley, Corpus Delicti
Appeared in: Pleiades
Clark Coolidge, Traced Red Dot
Appeared in: New American Writing
Ruth Danon, Long after (Mallarmé)
Appeared in: 3rd Bed
Diane di Prima, Midsummer
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Theodore Enslin, Moon Cornering
Appeared in: Chicago Review
Elaine Equi, O Patriarchy
Appeared in: Skanky Possom
Clayton Eshleman, Animals out of the Snow
Appeared in: Skanky Possom
Norman Finkelstein, Drones and Chants
Appeared in: Hambone
Jeffrey Franklin, To a Student Who Reads 'The Second Coming' as Sexual Autobiography
Appeared in: New England Review
Benjamin Friedlander, Independence Day
Appeared in: Can We Have Our Ball Back?
Gene Frumkin, Surreal Love Life
Appeared in: Hambone
Forrest Gander, Carried Across
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Peter Gizzi, Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil
Appeared in: Boston Review
Louise Glück, Reunion
Appeared in: Slate
Albert Goldbarth, The Gold Star
Appeared in: The Antioch Review
Donald Hall, Affirmation
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Michael S. Harper, TCAT serenade: 4 4 98 (New Haven)
Appeared in: Harvard Review
Everett Hoagland, you: should be shoo be
Appeared in: Crux
Fanny Howe, 9/11/2001
Appeared in: Can We Have Our Ball Back?
Ronald Johnson, "Poem" ("across dark stream")
Appeared in: Hambone
Maxine Kumin, Flying
Appeared in: Connecticut Review
Bill Kushner, Great
Appeared in: Boondoggle
Joseph Lease, "Broken World" (For James Assatly)
Appeared in: Colorado Review
Timothy Liu, Felix Culpa
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Mộng-Lan, Trail
Appeared in: jubilat
Jackson Mac Low, And Even You Elephants? (Stein 139/Titles 35)
Appeared in: Deluxe Rubber Chicken
Nathaniel Mackey, On Antiphon Island
Appeared in: jubilat
Steve Malmude, Perfect Front Door
Appeared in: The Hat
Sarah Manguso, Address to Winnie in Paris
Appeared in: jubilat
Harry Mathews, Butter & Eggs
Appeared in: Boston Review
Duncan McNaughton, The quarry (1-13)
Appeared in: Hambone
W. S. Merwin, To My Father's Houses
Appeared in: The New York Review of Books
Philip Metres, Ashberries: Letters
Appeared in: New England Review
Jennifer Moxley, Behind the Orbits
Appeared in: Pressed Wafer
Eileen Myles, Sympathy
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Maggie Nelson, Sunday Night
Appeared in: The Hat
Charles North, Sonnet
Appeared in: Boston Review
Alice Notley, Haunt
Appeared in: Pharos
D. Nurkse, Snapshot from Niagara
Appeared in: Barrow Street
Sharon Olds, Frontis Nulla Fides
Appeared in: Ploughshares
George Oppen, Twenty-six Fragments
Appeared in: Facture
Jena Osman, Starred Together
Appeared in: Hambone
Carl Phillips, Fretwork
Appeared in: The Threepenny Review
Pam Rehm, 'A roof is no guarantee...'
Appeared in: Chicago Review
Adrienne Rich, Ends of the Earth
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Corinne Robins, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Appeared in: Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Elizabeth Robinson, Tenets of Roots and Trouble
Appeared in: Hambone
Ira Sadoff, Self-Portrait with Critic
Appeared in: AGNI
Hugh Seidman, I Do Not Know Myself
Appeared in: Poetry
Reginald Shepherd, You Also, Nightingale
Appeared in: New England Review
Ron Silliman, For Larry Eigner, Silent
Appeared in: Facture
Dale Smith, Poem after Haniel Long
Appeared in: Mungo vs. Ranger
Gustaf Sobin, In Way of Introduction
Appeared in: Hambone
Juliana Spahr, Some of We and the Land That Was Never Ours
Appeared in: Chicago Review
John Taggart, Call
Appeared in: The Caf? Review
Sam Truitt, from "Raton Rex, Part I"
Appeared in: Boston Review
Jean Valentine, Do flies remember us
Appeared in: Colorado Review
Lewis Warsh, Eye Contact
Appeared in: The Hat
Claire Nicolas White, Return to Saint Odilienberg, Easter 2000
Appeared in: Witness
Nathan Whiting, In Charge
Appeared in: Hanging Loose
Dara Wier, Illumined with the Light of Fitfully Burning Censers
Appeared in: Volt
Charles Wright, Nostalgia II
Appeared in: Ploughshares
John Yau, A Sheath of Pleasant Voices
Appeared in: Verse

 

 
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