THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1992
Guest Editor: CHARLES SIMIC

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Jonathan Aaron, Dance Mania
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Agha Shahid Ali, I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror
Appeared in: Field
John Ash, The Ungrateful Citizens
Appeared in: The Paris Review
John Ashbery, Poem at the New Year
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Robin Behn, Midwestern Villanelle
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Charles Bernstein, How I Painted Certain of My Pictures
Appeared in: Hambone
George Bilgere, Healing
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Elizabeth Bishop, Dear, My Compass...
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Robert Bly, The Crippled Godwit
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Lucie Brock-Broido, Inevitably, She Declined
Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review
Joseph Brodsky, Homage to Gerolamo Marcello
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Hayden Carruth, Sex
Appeared in: The Sewanee Review
Billy Collins, Nostalgia
Appeared in: The Georgia Review
Robert Creeley, Other
Appeared in: Grand Street
Kathleen de Azevedo, Famous Women--Claudette Colbert
Appeared in: Fine Madness
Carl Dennis, Spring Letter
Appeared in: Poetry
Deborah Digges, My Amaryllis
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Stephen Dunn, Smiles
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Susan Firer, The Bright Waterfall of Angels
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Alice Fulton, A Little Heart-to-Heart with the Horizon
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Tess Gallagher, We're All Pharaohs When We Die
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Amy Gerstler, On Wanting to Grow Horns
Appeared in: Witness
Jack Gilbert, Voices Inside and Out
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Louise Glück, Vespers
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Jill Gonet, Body Will
Appeared in: ZYZZYVA
Jorie Graham, Manifest Destiny
Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review
Allen Grossman, Poland of Death (IV)
Appeared in: Tikkun
Marilyn Hacker, Elysian Fields
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Donald Hall, Spring Glen Grammar School
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Daniel Halpern, Infidelities
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Robert Hass, My Mother's Nipples
Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review
Vickie Hearne, St. Luke Painting the Virgin
Appeared in: Raritan
Juan Felipe Herrera, Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual
Appeared in: New England Review
Edward Hirsch, Man on a Fire Escape
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Daniel Hoffman, Identities
Appeared in: Boulevard
John Hollander, Days of Autumn
Appeared in: Grand Street
Richard Howard, Like Most Revelations
Appeared in: Boston Pheonix
Lynda Hull, Lost Fugue for Chet
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Lawrence Joseph, Some Sort of Chronicler I Am
Appeared in: The Kenyon Review
Galway Kinnell, The Man on the Hotel Room Bed
Appeared in: The Ohio Review
Carolyn Kizer, Twelve O'clock
Appeared in: The Paris Review
Phyllis Koestenbaum, Admission of Failure
Appeared in: Epoch
Sharon Krinsky, Mystery Stories
Appeared in: Brooklyn Review
Maxine Kumin, Saga: Four Variations on the Sonnet
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Evelyn Lao, Green
Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review
Li-Young Lee, This Hour and What Is Dead
Appeared in: Ploughshares
Dionisio D. Martínez, Across These Landscapes of Early Darkness
Appeared in: Iowa Review
Mekeel McBride, All Hallows' Eve
Appeared in: North American Review
James McCorkle, " . . .The Storm is Passing Over"; She Sang
Appeared in: Verse
Jerry McGuire, Terminal
Appeared in: Callaloo
Sandra McPherson, Choosing an Author for Assurance in the Night
Appeared in: Field
Robert Morgan, Honey
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Thylias Moss, An Anointing
Appeared in: Epoch
Carol Muske, Red Trousseau
Appeared in: American Poetry Review
Mary Oliver, Rain
Appeared in: Poetry
Michael Palmer, Eighth Sky
Appeared in: Grand Street
Robert Pinsky, Avenue
Appeared in: Boston Pheonix
Lawrence Raab, The Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window
Appeared in: Denver Quarterly
Liam Rector, The Night the Lightning Bugs Lit Last in the Field Then Went Their Way
Appeared in: AGNI
Donald Revell, Plenitude
Appeared in: New Letters
Adrienne Rich, For a Friend in Travail
Appeared in: Poetry
Len Roberts, We Sat, So Patient
Appeared in: Boulevard
Lynda Schraufnagel, Trial
Appeared in: Western Humanities Review
Elizabeth Spires, Good Friday. Driving Westward.
Appeared in: The New Criterion
Rachel Srubas, I Want to Marry You
Appeared in: Another Chicago Magazine
David St. John, Lucifer in Starlight
Appeared in: Denver Quarterly
Richard Tillinghast, Anatolian Journey
Appeared in: The New Yorker
Lewis Turco, Kamelopard
Appeared in: The Formalist
Chase Twichell, Word Silence
Appeared in: The Yale Review
Rosanna Warren, Necrophiliac
Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly
Ioanna-Veronika Warwick, Eyeglasses
Appeared in: Exquisite Corpse
C. K. Williams, The Knot
Appeared in: Antaeus
Charles Wright, Winter-Worship
Appeared in: Field
Franz Wright, Depiction of Childhood
Appeared in: Field
Stephen Yenser, Vertumnal
Appeared in: The Yale Review

 

 
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