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Tables of Contents for The Best American Poetry 1997
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
9
8
David Lehman
Introduction
James Tate
Ai
"Back in the World"
25
3
Sherman Alexie
"The Exaggeration of Despair"
28
2
Agha Shahid Ali
"Return to Harmony 3"
30
2
A. R. Ammons
from "Strip"
32
4
Nin Andrews
"That Cold Summer"
36
2
L. S. Asekoff
"Rounding the Horn"
38
3
John Ashbery
"The Problem of Anxiety"
41
1
Marianne Boruch
"Camouflage"
42
2
Catherine Bowman
"No Sorry"
44
2
Joseph Brodsky
"Love Song"
46
1
Stephanie Brown
"Feminine Intuition"
47
2
Joshua Clover
"The Map Room"
49
2
Billy Collins
"Lines Lost Among Trees"
51
2
Gillian Conoley
"The Sky Drank In"
53
2
Jayne Cortez
"The Heavy Headed Dance"
57
2
Robert Creeley
"Won't It Be Fine?"
57
2
Carl Dennis
"History"
59
2
William Dickey
"The Death of John Berryman"
61
1
Robert Dow
"How Should I Say This?"
62
2
Thomas Sayers Ellis
"Atomic Bride"
64
4
Irving Feldman
"You Know What I'm Saying?"
68
1
Herman Fong
"Asylum"
69
2
Dick Gallup
"Backing into the Future"
71
1
Martin Galvin
"Introductions"
72
2
Amy Gerstler
"A Fan Letter"
74
3
Allen Ginsberg
"Is About"
77
2
Dana Gioia
"The Litany"
79
2
Elton Glaser
"Smoking"
81
1
Kate Gleason
"After Fighting for Hours"
82
1
Albert Goldbarth
"Complete with Starry Night and Bourbon Shots"
83
4
Jorie Graham
"Thinking"
87
2
Donald Hall
"The Porcelain Couple"
89
2
Daniel Halpern
"Her Body"
91
4
Robert Hass
"Interrupted Meditation"
95
3
Bob Hicok
"Heroin"
98
2
Paul Hoover
"California"
100
2
Christine Hume
"Helicopter Wrecked on a Hill"
102
2
Harry Humes
"The Butterfly Effect"
104
2
Don Hymans
"Passacaglia"
106
2
Lawson Fusao Inada
"Making It Stick"
108
2
Richard Jackson
"The Poem That Was Once Called `Desperate' But Is Now Striving to Become the Perfect Love Poem"
110
3
Gray Jacobik
"Dust Storm"
113
1
George Kalamaras
"Mud"
114
3
Jennifer L. Knox
"The Bright Light of Responsibility"
117
2
Philip Kobylarz
"A Bill, Posted"
119
3
Yusef Komunyakaa
"Jeanne Duval's Confession"
122
3
Elizabeth Kostova
"Suddenly I Realized I Was Sitting"
125
1
Denise Levertov
"The Change"
126
2
Larry Levis
"Anastasia and Sandman"
128
4
Matthew Lippman
"Hallelujah Terrible"
132
2
Beth Lisick
"Empress of Sighs"
134
2
Khaled Mattawa
"Heartsong"
136
2
William Matthews
"Vermin"
138
1
Josip Novakovich
"Shadow"
139
1
Josip Novakovich
from A Summer Evening
140
2
Catie Rosemurgy
"Mostly Mick Jagger"
142
2
Clare Rossini
"Valediction"
144
1
Mary Ruefle
"Topophilia"
145
2
Hillel Schwartz
"Recruiting Poster"
147
2
Maureen Seaton
"Fiddleheads"
149
3
Vijay Seshadri
"Lifeline"
152
6
Steven Sherrill
"Katyn Forest"
158
2
Charlie Smith
"The Something"
160
2
Charlie Smith
"Beds"
162
3
Leon Stokesbury
"Evening's End"
165
5
Mark Strand
"Morning, Noon and Night"
170
2
Jack Turner
"The Plan"
172
1
Karen Volkman
"Infernal"
173
2
Derek Walcott
"Italian Eclogues"
175
5
Rosanna Warren
"Diversion"
180
2
Lewis Warsh
"Downward Mobility"
182
1
Terence Winch
"Shadow Grammar"
183
2
Eve Wood
"Recognition"
185
1
Charles Wright
"Disjecta Membra"
186
11
Dean Young
"Frottage"
Contributors' Notes and Comments
199
44
Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published
243
2
Acknowledgments
245
4
Cumulative Series Index
249