The Best American Poetry 1998
By: John Hollander, guest editor ; David Lehman, series editor
Series: Best American Poetry series
Publisher: Scribner
Published: August 1, 1998
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780684814537
Subjects: American poetry
Notes: Bio-bibliographies of poets: p. 283-325.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / David Lehman; title: Introduction / John Hollander; title: Mr. Moto's confession / Jonathan Aaron; title: The floating post office / Agha Shahid Ali; title: The cove / Dick Allen; title: Now then / A.R. Ammons; title: A possum's tale / Daniel Anderson; title: Botanical garden: the coastal plains / James Applewhite; title: Hot / Craig Arnold; title: from Visits from the seventh / Sarah Arvio; title: Wakefulness / John Ashbery; title: The second hour of the night / Frank Bidart; title: A week of poems at Bennington / Robert Bly; title: In an old garden / George Bradley; title: from Just let me say this about that (IV) / John Bricuth; title: TV men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) / Anne Carson; title: Symbol of the faith / Turner Cassity; title: Self-portraits as four styles of Pompeian wall painting / Henri Cole; title: Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey / Billy Collins; title: Jaffa / Alfred Corn; title: Echo / James Cummins; title: What else is there / Tom Disch; title: The difference between Pepsi and Pope / Denise Duhamel; title: Like God / Lynn Emanuel; title: Movietime / Irving Feldman; title: Apollo's kiss / Emily Fragos; title: Mass in B minor / Debora Greger; title: Weird river / Allen Grossman; title: To Cupid / Thom Gunn; title: Again, the river / Marilyn Hacker; title: Pomegranate variations / Rachel Hadas; title: Letter with no address / Donald Hall; title: The cretonnes of Penelope / Joseph Harrison; title: Rara Avis in Terris / Anthony Hecht; title: The world is everything that is the case / Darly Hine; title: The lectures on love / Edward Hirsch; title: The job interview / Richard Howard; title: The hanging gardens / Andrew Hudgins; title: The word 'Answer' / Mark Jarman; title: Stanzas on a hidden theme / Donald Justice; title: The orchard / Brigit Pegeen Kelly; title: Roman hours / Karl Kirchwey; title: Second time around / Carolyn Kizer; title: Ballade / Kenneth Koch; title: The secret amplitude / John Koethe; title: About her / Rika Lesser; title: Ontological / Phillis Levin; title: Drum / Philip Levin; title: Making love / Rebecca McClanahan; title: Descartes's dream / J.D. McClatchy; title: Past all understanding / Heather McHugh; title: Chalk-circle compass / Sandra McPherson; title: The Chinese mountain fox / W.S. Merwin; title: Joe Simpson [1919-1996] / Robert Mezey; title: Artisan and clerk / A.F. Moritz; title: The right empowerment of light / Thylias Moss; title: Enchanted rock / William Mullen; title: Flamingos / Eric Ormsby; title: Views of La Leggenda della Vera Croce / Jacqueline Osherow; title: Ode to meaning / Robert Pinsky; title: The closing/ the ecstasy / Reynolds Price; title: March / Wyatt Prunty; title: Four corners, Vermont / Stephen Sandy; title: The coat / Alan Shapiro; title: A geode / Robert B. Shaw; title: Ambiguity's wedding / Charles Simic; title: The view / Mark Strand; title: Dream on / James Tate; title: A calm November. Sunday in the fields / Sidney Wade; title: Signs / Derek Walcott; title: Departure / Rosanna Warren; title: from Home and away / Rachel Wetzsteon; title: Shanked on the red bed / Susan Wheeler; title: For C. / Richard Wilbur; title: The bed / C.K. Williams; title: The dark days / Greg Williamson; title: Returned to the Yaak cabin, I overhear an old Greek song / Charles Wright.