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Tables of Contents for The Best American Poetry 2001
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
9
8
David Lehman
Introduction
17
14
Robert Hass
``Notes for a Sermon on the Mount''
31
1
Nin Andrews
``The Plan''
32
2
Rae Armantrout
``Crossroads in the Past''
34
2
John Ashbery
``Jazz''
36
1
Angela Ball
``Crossed-Over, Fiend-Snitched, X-ed Out''
37
2
Mary Jo Bang
``When the Gods Put on Meter''
39
4
Cal Bedient
``Vague Poem''
43
2
Elizabeth Bishop
``The French Generals''
45
1
Robert Bly
``Sonnet Around Stephanie''
46
1
Lee Ann Brown
``Notes About My Face''
47
6
Michael Burkard
``Heartland''
53
2
Trent Busch
``Blouse of Felt''
55
2
Amina Calil
``Longing, a documentary''
57
2
Anne Carson
``Ceriserie''
59
2
Joshua Clover
``Snow Day''
61
2
Billy Collins
``En Famille''
63
4
Robert Creeley
``A Mown Lawn''
67
1
Lydia Davis
``Ma Ramon''
68
2
R. Erica Doyle
``The Cloud of Unknowing''
70
2
Christopher Edgar
``T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M.''
72
4
Thomas Sayers Ellis
``The Art of the Snake Story''
76
6
Amy England
``Contemporary American Poetry''
82
3
Alan Feldman
``Little Dantesque''
85
2
James Galvin
``Time''
87
2
Louise Gluck
``My Chakabuku Mama: a comic tale''
89
2
Jewelle Gomez
``Gulls''
91
4
Jorie Graham
``Waterborne''
95
3
Linda Gregerson
``The Singers Change, The Music Goes On''
98
1
Linda Gregg
``Enough rain for Agnes Walquist''
99
5
Allen Grossman
``Her Garden''
104
1
Donald Hall
``Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-Seven''
105
2
Anthony Hecht
``Nights''
107
4
Lyn Hejinian
``The Formation of Soils''
111
2
Brenda Hillman
``In Praise of Coldness''
113
1
Jane Hirshfield
``What the Lovers in the Old Songs Thought''
114
1
John Hollander
``After 65''
115
2
Richard Howard
``Doubt''
117
4
Fanny Howe
``Sweet Reader, Flanneled and Tulled''
121
3
Olena Kalytiak Davis
``The Emperor of China''
124
4
Shirley Kaufman
``The Quick and the Dead''
128
4
Galway Kinnell
``Dear Derrida''
132
5
David Kirby
``The Ashes''
137
2
Carolyn Kizer
``To World War Two''
139
3
Kenneth Koch
``Consolations Before an Affair, Upper West Side''
142
1
Noelle Kocot
``Songs of the Valley''
143
2
John Koethe
``Seven Deadly Sins''
145
5
Yusef Komunyakaa
``Wedding Day''
150
3
Mark Levine
``The Rider''
153
1
Sarah Manguso
``Tattoos''
154
10
J. D. McClatchy
``Mae West Chats It Up with Bessie Smith''
164
2
Colleen J. McElroy
``My One''
166
1
Heather McHugh
``Music for Homemade Instruments''
167
1
Harryette Mullen
``Our Kitty''
168
2
Carol Muske Dukes
``Where Leftover Misery Goes''
170
5
Alice Notley
``His Costume''
175
2
Sharon Olds
``The Nature of Things''
177
1
Kathleen Ossip
``Here''
178
1
Grace Paley
``Untitled (February 2000)''
179
2
Michael Palmer
``A Metal Denser Than, and Liquid''
181
4
John Peck
``The Ghost Shirt''
185
7
Lucia Perillo
``The Clearing''
192
2
Carl Phillips
``Jersey Rain''
194
2
Robert Pinsky
``A short narrative of breasts and womb in service of Plot entitled''
196
2
Claudia Rankine
``Architect''
198
2
Adrienne Rich
``Vectors: Forty-five Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays''
200
7
James Richardson
``What We Heard About the Japanese'' and ``What the Japanese Perhaps Heard''
207
3
Rachel Rose
``Furtherness''
210
2
Mary Ruefle
``Along Overgrown Paths''
212
1
James Schuyler
``Night Picnic''
213
1
Charles Simic
``Apple''
214
4
Susan Stewart
``Meteor''
218
2
Larissa Szporluk
``The Diagnosis''
220
1
James Tate
``I stopped writing poetry...''
221
6
Bernard Welt
``Sources of the Delaware''
227
3
Dean Young
``In Your Version of Heaven I Am Younger''
230
3
Rachel Zucker
Contributors' Notes and Comments
233
46
Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published
279
4
Acknowledgments
283