title: The Best American Poetry 1993
text: # The Best American Poetry 1993
  
  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 |
  