The Best American Poetry 2004
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The Best American Poetry 2004 was edited by general editor David Lehman. This year's guest editor was Lyn Hejinian.
[edit] Poets and poems included
| Poet | Poem | Publication(s) where poem previously appeared |
| Kim Addonizio | "Chicken" | Five Points |
| Will Alexander | from "Solea of the Simooms" | No: a journal of the arts |
| Bruce Andrews | from "Dang Me" | SHINY |
| Rae Armantrout | "Almost" | Mississippi Review |
| Craig Arnold | "Your friend's arriving on the bus" | Open City |
| John Ashbery | "Wolf Ridge" | Conjunctions |
| Mary Jo Bang | "The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity" |
Ploughshares |
| Alan Bernheimer | "20 Questions" | SHINY, The Forward |
| Charles Bernstein | "Sign Under Test" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Anselm Berrigan | "Token Enabler" | Rattapallax, Mississippi Review, Can We Have Our Ball Back? |
| Mark Bibbins | from "Blasted Fields of Clover Bring Harrowing and Regretful Sighs" |
Boston Review |
| Oni Buchanan | "The Walk" | Conduit |
| Michael Burkard | "a cloud of dusk" | Lyric |
| Anne Carson | "Gnosticism" | The New Yorker |
| T.J. Clark | "Landscape with a Calm" | The Threepenny Review |
| Billy Collins | "The Centrifuge" | Fulcrum |
| Jack Collom | "3-4-00" | Ecopoetics |
| Michael Costello | "Ode to My lint and Boom Bolivia" | Columbia Poetry Review |
| Michael Davidson | "Bad Modernism" | No: a journal of the arts |
| Olena Kalytiak Davis | "You Art A Scholar, Horation, Speak To It" | Tin House |
| Jean Day | "Prose of the World Order" | 26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics |
| Linh Dinh | "13" | American Poetry Review |
| Rita Dove | "All Souls" | The New Yorker |
| Rachel Blau DuPlessis | "Draft 55:Quiptych" | Conjunctions |
| kari edwards | "short sorry" | Aufgabe |
| Kenward Elmslie | "Sibling Rivalry" | New American Writing |
| Aaron Fogel | "337,000, December, 2000" | Pataphysics |
| Ariel Greenberg | "Saints" | The Canary |
| Ted Greenwald | "Anyway" | SHINY |
| Barbara Guest | "Nostalgia of the Infinite" | No: a journal of the arts |
| Carla Harryman | "from Baby" | Sal Mimeo |
| Jane Hirshfield | "Poe: An Assay (I)" | The Threepenny Review, Poetry Daily |
| John Hollander | "For Fiddle-De-Dee" | Hotel Amerika |
| Fanny Howe | "Catholic" | Chicago Review |
| Kenneth Irby | "[Record]" | No: a journal of the arts |
| Major Jackson | from "Urban Renewal" | Provincetown Arts, Poetry Daily |
| Marc Jaffee | "King of Repetition" | Hanging Loose |
| Kenneth Koch | "The Man" | SHINY |
| John Koethe | "To an Audience" | TriQuarterly |
| Yusef Komunyakaa | "Ignis Fatuus" | The New Republic |
| Sean Manzano Labrador | "The Dark Continent" | Rapidfeed |
| Ann Lauterbach | "After Mahler" | No: a journal of the arts |
| Nathaniel Mackey | "Sound and Cerement" | Hotel Amerika |
| Harry Mathews | "Lateral Disregard" | SHINY |
| Steve McCaffery | "Some Versions of Pastoral" | TriQuarterly |
| K. Silem Mohammad | "Mars Needs Terrorists" | Kiosk |
| Erín Moure | "8 Little Theatres of the Cornices" | No: a journal of the arts |
| Paul Muldoon | "The Last Time I Saw Chris" | The New Yorker |
| Eileen Myles | "No Rewriting" | Mississippi Review |
| Alice Notley | "State of the Union" | Columbia Poetry Review |
| Jeni Olin | "Blue Collar Holiday" | Hanging Loose, Exquisite Corpse, Jacket |
| Danielle Pafunda | "RSVP" | Pleiades |
| Heidi Peppermint | "Real Toads" | La Petite Zine |
| Bob Perelman | "Here 2" | DCPoetry Anthology 2003 |
| Carl Phillips | "Pleasure" | Tin House |
| Robert Pinsky | "Samba" | The Threepenny Review |
| Carl Rakosi | "In the First Circle of Limbo" | American Poetry Review |
| Ed Roberson | "Ideas Gray Suits Bowler Hats Baal" | Chicago Review |
| Kit Robinson | "The 3D Matchmove Artist" | DCPoetry Anthology 2003 |
| Carly Sachs | "the story" | PMS |
| Jennifer Scappettone | "III" | Boston Review |
| Frederick Seidel | "Love Song" | Fence, Harper's |
| David Shapiro | "A Burning Interior" | SHINY |
| Ron Silliman | "Compliance Engineering" | Antennae |
| Bruce Smith | "Song of the Ransom of the Dark" | POOL |
| Brian Kim Stefans | "They're Putting a New Door In" | Boston Review |
| Gerald Stern | "Dog That I Am" | Lyric |
| Virgil Suarez | "La Florida" | New England Review |
| Arthur Sze | "Acanthus" | The Butcher Shop |
| James Tate | "Bounden Duty" | American Poetry Review |
| Edwin Torres | "The Theorist Has No Samba!" | Van Gogh's Ear |
| Rodrigo Toscano | "Meditatio Lectoris" | Kiosk, Rattapallax |
| Paul Violi | "Appeal to Grammarians" | Green Mountains Review |
| David Wagoner | "Trying to Make Music" | Hanging Loose |
| Charles Wright | "In Praise of Han Shan" | Five Points |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared
- Best American Poetry Web site main page
- [1] A damning review by Joan Houlihan in Boston Comment
- [2] A review by David Orr in The New York Times Book Review
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