The Best American Poetry 1993 book cover
The Best American Poetry 1993, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Louise Glück.
Poets and poems included
| Poet | Poem | Where poem previously appeared |
| A. R. Ammons | "Garbage" | American Poetry Review |
| John Ashbery | "Baked Alaska" | The New Yorker |
| Michael Atkinson | "The Same Trouble with Beauty You've Always Had" | Ontario Review |
| Stephen Berg | "Cold Cash" | The Kenyon Review |
| Sophie Cabot Black | "Interrogation" | AGNI |
| Stephanie Brown | "Chapter One" | American Poetry Review |
| Charles Bukowski | "Three Oranges" | OnTheBus |
| Hayden Carruth | "At His Last Gig" | The Ohio Review |
| Tom Clark | "Statue" | American Poetry Review |
| Killarney Clary | ""An Unlikely One Will Guide Me..."" | Ploughshares |
| Marc Cohen | "Sometimes in Winter" | Santa Monica Review |
| Billy Collins | "Tuesday, June 4th, 1991" | Poetry |
| Peter Cooley | "Macular Degeneration" | Iowa Review |
| Carolyn Creedon | "litany" | American Poetry Review |
| Barbara Cully | "Repressed Theme" | Free Lunch |
| Carl Dennis | "The Window in Spring" | Shenandoah |
| Tim Dlugos | "Healing the World from Battery Park" | Hanging Loose |
| Stephen Dobyns | "Favorite Iraqi Soldier" | The Paris Review |
| Denise Duhamel | "Feminism" | Hanging Loose |
| Stephen Dunn | "The Vanishings" | The Paris Review |
| Roger Fanning | "Shoelace" | Phoebe |
| Alice B. Fogel | "The Necessity" | Boston Review |
| Tess Gallagher | "One Kiss" | Fine Madness |
| Albert Goldbarth | "Life Is Happy," | Boulevard |
| Jorie Graham | "What the Instant Contains" | Epoch (magazine) |
| Allen Grossman | "Great Work Farm Elegy" | Colorado Review |
| Thom Gunn | "The Butcher's Son" | The New Yorker |
| Donald Hall | "Pluvia" | The Nation |
| Mark Halliday | "Vegetable Wisdom" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Daniel Halpern | "Argument" | Western Humanities Review |
| Paul Hoover | "Theory" | Ploughshares |
| David Ignatow | "Absolutely" | Boulevard |
| Josephine Jacobsen | "Hourglass" | The New Yorker |
| Mark Jarman | "Questions for Ecclesiastes" | New England Review |
| Rodney Jones | "Grand Projection" | New England Review |
| Donald Justice | "Invitation to a Ghost" | Sewanee Theological Review |
| Brigit Pegeen Kelly | "The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery" | The Gettysburg Review |
| Robert Kelly | "Mapping" | Grand Street |
| Jane Kenyon | "Having It Out with Melancholy" | Poetry |
| Pamela Kircher | "Looking at the Sea" | The Ohio Review |
| Kenneth Koch | "Talking to Patrizia" | Poetry |
| Phyllis Koestenbaum | "Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor" | Poetry New York |
| Stanley Kunitz | "Chariot" | The Gettysburg Review |
| Denise Levertov | "In California During the Gulf War" | American Poetry Review |
| Lisa Lewis | "The Urinating Man" | Poetry East |
| Thomas Lux | "Grim Town in a Steep Valley" | Field |
| Elizabeth Macklin | "The Nearsighted" | The New Yorker |
| Tom Mandel | "Open Rebuke (Concealed Love)" | Hambone |
| James McMichael | from "The Person She Is" | TriQuarterly |
| Sandra McPherson | "Waiting for Lesser Duckweed: On a Proposal of lssa's" | Iowa Review |
| W.S. Merwin | "The Stranger" | Poetry |
| Susan Mitchell | "Rapture" | Provincetown Arts |
| A. F. Moritz | "April Fool's Day, Mount Pleasant Cemetery" | Spoon River Quarterly |
| Mary Oliver | "Poppies" | The Kenyon Review |
| Ron Padgett | "Advice to Young Writers" | The World |
| Michael Palmer | "Who Is to Say" | Epoch |
| Lucia Maria Perillo | "Skin" | Ontario Review |
| Wang Ping | "Of Flesh and Spirit" | The World |
| Lawrence Raab | "Magic Problems" | Shenandoah |
| Adrienne Rich | "Not Somewhere Else, But Here" | Southwest Review |
| Laura Riding | "Makeshift" | Chelsea |
| Gjertrud Schnackenberg | "Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ" | The Yale Review |
| Hugh Seidman | "Icon" | Pequod |
| Charles Simic | "This Morning" | The New Yorker |
| Louis Simpsom | "Suddenly" | The Hudson Review |
| Gary Snyder | "Ripples on the Surface" | Grand Street |
| Gerald Stern | "Coleman Valley Road" | Black Warrior Review |
| Ruth Stone | "That Winter" | American Poetry Review |
| Mark Strand | from "Dark Harbor" | The New Republic |
| James Tate | "In My Own Backyard" | American Poetry Review |
| John Updike | "To a Former Mistress, Now Dead" | Poetry |
| Ellen Bryant Voigt | "Song and Story" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Susan Wheeler | "A Filial Republic" | No Roses Review |
| C. K. Williams | "A Dream of Mind: The Gap" | The Threepenny Review |
| Dean Young | "The Business of Love Is Cruelty" | Poetry East |
See also
Notes
External links
- Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared
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