The Best of the Best American Poetry
eBook - ePub

The Best of the Best American Poetry

1988-1997

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Best of the Best American Poetry

1988-1997

About this book

Every year since 1988 a major poet has selected seventy-five poems for publication in The Best American Poetry. The series has quickly grown in both sales and prestige, as poetry itself has seen a remarkable resurgence in popularity and vitality, fueled by established poets at the peak of their powers and a new generation of daring voices. As we approach the millennium, now is the opportune moment to take stock of american poetry and choose the work that will stand the test of time. Harold Bloom, a commanding presence on the American literary state, has read all 750 poems in the series and has picked the "best of the best." He precedes his selections with a compelling and highly provocative essay on the state of American letters, in which he fiercely champions the endangered realm of the aesthetic over the politically correct. Diverse in style, method, and metaphor, the seventy-five poems Bloom has chosen go a long way toward defining a contemporary canon of American poetry. This exciting volume reflects not only the taste of the current editor, but the predilections of the all-star list of poets who have contributed their time and intellect to make this series what is today: a "valuable, invaluable, supervaluable" (Beloit Poetry Journal) record of an ever-changing, always exciting art.

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Information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
1998
Print ISBN
9781451658880
eBook ISBN
9781439106068
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction
  6. Dance Mania
  7. Anxiety’s Prosody
  8. Garbage
  9. From Strip
  10. Baked Alaska
  11. Myrtle
  12. The Problem of Anxiety
  13. It Is Marvellous …
  14. The Fire Fetched Down
  15. Inevitably, She Declined
  16. The Life of Towns
  17. My Cousin Muriel
  18. True Solar Holiday
  19. litany
  20. The Cardinal Detoxes: A Play in One Act
  21. Terminal Laughs
  22. The Printer’s Error
  23. Powers of Congress
  24. Salutations to Fernando Pessoa
  25. Celestial Music
  26. Vespers
  27. Manifest Destiny
  28. What the Instant Contains
  29. The Piano Player Explains Himself
  30. Prophecy
  31. The Porcelain Couple
  32. St. Luke Painting the Virgin
  33. Prospects
  34. Man on a Fire Escape
  35. Kinneret
  36. An Old-Fashioned Song
  37. The See-Saw
  38. Like Most Revelations
  39. Nostalgia of the Lakefronts
  40. Invitation to a Ghost
  41. The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery
  42. Three Songs at the End of Summer
  43. When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
  44. Sonogram
  45. One Train May Hide Another
  46. Facing It
  47. Psyche’s Dream
  48. Scouting
  49. Histoire
  50. An Essay on Friendship
  51. A Room at the Heart of Things
  52. The “Ring” Cycle
  53. Family Week at Oracle Ranch
  54. The Stranger
  55. Havana Birth
  56. Protracted Episode
  57. The Warmth of Hot Chocolate
  58. At the Lakehouse
  59. Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?
  60. Movie
  61. A Mathematics of Breathing
  62. Outsider Art
  63. The Present Perfect
  64. The Seasons
  65. Country Fair
  66. The Something
  67. Ripples on the Surface
  68. Reading in Place
  69. From Dark Harbor
  70. Morning, Noon and Night
  71. Sleeping with Boa
  72. Omeros
  73. The Cormorant
  74. Diversion
  75. What Memory Reveals
  76. Lying
  77. A Wall in the Woods: Cummington
  78. Disjecta Membra
  79. Madrid
  80. The Cradle Logic of Autumn
  81. Contributors’ Notes And Comments
  82. Excerpts From The Introductions With Headnotes By David Lehman
  83. Acknowledgments
  84. Cumulative Series Index
  85. Appendix1