- Introduction
- John Ashbery, Paradoxes and Oxymorons (1981)
- Tato Laviera, tito madera smith (1981)
- Richard Wilbur, The Ride (1982)
- Lucille Clifton, my dream about the second coming (1982 / 1987)
- Carla Harryman, Possession (1982)
- John Hollander, Songs & Sonnets (1983)
- Carl Dennis, More Music (1984 / 1985)
- Liam Rector, Saxophone (1984)
- Czesław Miłosz, trans. Robert Pinsky and Czesław Miłosz, Incantation (1984)
- Robert Grenier, Shoe from the Waves (1984)
- Rita Dove, Lightnin’ Blues (1986)
- A. R. Ammons, Target (1987)
- Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It (1987 / 1988)
- Diane Glancy, Hamatawk (1988 / 1991)
- Lucie Brock-Broido, Domestic Mysticism (1988)
- Killarney Clary, Above the Inland Empire today (1989)
- John Yau, Modern Love (1989)
- Robert Creeley, Oh (1990)
- Charles Wright, December Journal (1990)
- Allen Grossman, The Piano Player Explains Himself (1991)
- Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World XIII (Dedications) (1991)
- Louise Glück, Lamium (1992)
- James Merrill, Self-Portrait in TyvekTM Windbreaker (1992 / 1995)
- Linda Gregerson, Salt (1993 / 1996)
- Kay Ryan, Emptiness (1993)
- Albert Goldbarth, “A Wooden Eye. An 1884 Silver Dollar. A Homemade Explosive. A Set of False Teeth. And a 14-Karat Gold Ashtray” (1995 / 1998)
- Harryette Mullen, honey jars of hair (1995)
- Stanley Kunitz, Halley’s Comet (1995)
- Michael Palmer, Letters to Zanzotto: Letter 3 (1995)
- Robert Hass, Our Lady of the Snows (1996)
- C. D. Wright, Key Episodes from an Earthly Life (1996)
- Juan Felipe Herrera, Blood on the Wheel (1999)
- Carter Revard, A Song That We Still Sing (2001)
- Allan Peterson, Epigraph (2001)
- Rae Armantrout, Our Nature (2001)
- Elizabeth Alexander, Race (2001)
- Liz Waldner, A / ppeal A / pple A / dam A / dream (2002)
- kari edwards, >> > >> > >> PLEASE FORWARD & > >> (2003)
- Agha Shahid Ali, Tonight (1996 / 2003)
- D. A. Powell, [when he comes he is neither sun nor shade: a china doll] (2004)
- Angie Estes, Sans Serif (2005)
- W. S. Merwin, To the Wires Overhead (2005 / 2007)
- Bernadette Mayer, On Sleep (2005)
- Donald Revell, Moab (2005 / 2007)
- Terrance Hayes, The Blue Terrance (2006)
- Jorie Graham, Futures (2007 / 2008)
- Laura Kasischke, Miss Weariness (2007)
- Frank Bidart, Song of the Mortar and Pestle (2008)
- Robyn Schiff, Lustron: The House America Has Been Waiting For (2008)
- Mary Jo Bang, Q Is for the Quick (2009)
- Lucia Perillo, Viagra (2009)
- Melissa Range, The Workhorse (2010)
- Joseph Massey, Prescription (2011)
- dg nanouk okpik, Date: Post Glacial (2012)
- Rosa Alcalá, Class (2012)
- Gabby Bess, Oversized T-Shirts (2012 / 2013)
- Brenda Shaughnessy, Hide-and-Seek with God (2012)
- Claudia Rankine, You and your partner go to see the film (2014)
- Brandon Som, Oulipo (2014)
- Ross Gay, Weeping (2015)
- Sources
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Credits
- Index
The Poem Is You
60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them
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