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Tables of Contents for The Best American Poetry 1999
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
9
19
David Lehman
Introduction
19
14
Robert Bly
``The Selfishness of the Poetry Reader''
33
2
Dick Allen
``Story''
35
2
John Balaban
``Bill Matthews Coming Along (1942--1997)''
37
2
Coleman Barks
``Catch''
39
1
George Bilgere
``Foreign-Domestic''
40
1
Elizabeth Bishop
``Tired Sex''
41
1
Chana Bloch
``Narrow Road, Presidents' Day''
42
3
Philip Booth
``Sea of Faith''
45
2
John Brehm
``Because I Am''
47
1
Hayden Carruth
``the mississippi river empties into the gulf''
48
1
Lucille Clifton
``Dharma''
49
2
Billy Collins
``Mitch''
51
3
Robert Creeley
``Betrayal''
54
1
Lydia Davis
``Taproot''
55
2
Debra Kang Dean
``Pasternak''
57
1
Chard deNiord
``Madam's Heart''
58
1
Russell Edson
``A Buddha in the Woodpile''
59
3
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
``My Father's Fields''
62
2
Dan Gerber
``Vita Nova''
64
2
Louise Gluck
``Breastbone''
66
2
Ray Gonzalez
``The Last Election''
68
2
John Haines
``Smile''
70
3
Donald Hall
``September''
73
1
Jennifer Michael Hecht
``What Would Freud Say?''
74
3
Bob Hicok
``The Envoy''
77
2
Jane Hirshfield
``Lawrence''
79
2
Tony Hoagland
``Beach Whispers''
81
1
John Hollander
``Man Script''
82
3
Amy Holman
``The Story of Progress''
85
1
David Ignatow
``The Circle Theatre''
86
2
Gray Jacobik
``Last Will and Testament''
88
3
Josephine Jacobsen
``Two Prose Poems''
91
2
Louis Jenkins
``The Patient''
93
2
Mary Karr
``A Curse on a Thief''
95
2
X. J. Kennedy
``Why Regret?''
97
2
Galway Kinnell
``The Erotic Philosophers''
99
5
Carolyn Kizer
``1989''
104
2
Ron Koertge
``Scapegoat''
106
1
Yusef Komunyakaa
``The Triumph of Narcissus and Aphrodite''
107
2
William Kulik
``Nunc Dimittis''
109
1
James Laughlin
``The Shipfitter's Wife''
110
1
Dorianne Laux
``The Sleepless Grape''
111
1
Li-Young Lee
``First Love''
112
2
Denise Levertov
``The Return''
114
2
Philip Levine
``A Charade''
116
1
David Mamet
``The Swim''
117
1
Gigi Marks
``Misgivings''
118
1
William Matthews
``The Characters of Dirty Jokes''
119
2
Wesley McNair
``A Ball''
121
1
Czeslaw Milosz
``Sonny's Hands''
122
2
Joan Murray
``What It Meant''
124
2
Sharon Olds
``Flare''
126
6
Mary Oliver
``And Now''
132
1
Franco Pagnucci
``Say You Love Me''
133
2
Molly Peacock
``Hemingway's Garden''
135
4
David Ray
``Seven Skins''
139
4
Adrienne Rich
``Writing from Memory''
143
3
Alberto Rios
``That Will to Divest''
146
1
Kay Ryan
``Last recording session/for papa joe''
147
1
Sonia Sanchez
``The Public and the Private Spheres''
148
2
Revan Schendler
``Longing and Wonder''
150
2
Myra Shapiro
``Barber College Haircut''
152
1
Charles Simic
``A Shearling Coat''
153
1
Louis Simpson
``Housewarming''
154
1
Thomas R. Smith
``A Star Is Born in the Eagle Nebula''
155
2
Marcia Southwick
``Ways to Live''
157
3
William Stafford
``The Drunkard's Daughter''
160
1
Peggy Steele
``A Moment''
161
1
Ruth Stone
``Deer Crossing the Sea''
162
1
Larissa Szporluk
``The Minefield''
163
1
Diane Thiel
``Thoreau and the Crickets''
164
2
David Wagoner
``This Pleasing Anxious Being''
166
2
Richard Wilbur
``Archetypes''
168
2
C. K. Williams
``American Twilight''
170
1
Charles Wright
``The Thread of Sunlight''
171
2
Timothy Young
Contributors' Notes and Comments
173
43
Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published
216
3
Acknowledgments
219