Contents

FOREWORD [5]; Frank Bidart, SIX POEMS [10]; Louise Glück, THREE POEMS [15]; Jorie Graham, FIVE POEMS [18]; Calvin Bedient, FIVE NOTES ON AMERICAN POETRY [26]; Frank Bidart, NOT FRANK AND I [29]; Russell Edson, FIVE PROSE POEMS, WHOLE BRAIN POETRY [40]; Brian Henry, THREE POEMS [54]; Christopher Merrill, POEM AND SEQUENCE [56]; A. R. Ammons, TWO POEMS [61]; Robert Mezey, ON FORM [65]; Donald Justice, TWO POEMS [75]; Robert Mezey, THREE POEMS [78]; Edward Hirsc, POEM SEQUENCE [80]; Calvin Bedient, POEM [85]; Samuel Menashe, SEVEN POEMS [87]; Robert Pinsky, AN ALPHABET OF MY DEAD FIVE POEMS/THE MEANING OF AMERICAN POETRY AT THE PRESENT TIME [89]; Lee Briccetti, THE PUBLISHING SCENE [115]; Louise Glück, ON MANNERISM [121]; Charles Simic, DICKINSON’S GRANDCHILDREN [139]; Samuel Menashe, GIVING THE DAY ITS DUE [142]; Stephen Berg, CAUSE AND COMMAND POEM SEQUENCE [139]; Phillip Levine, FOUR POEMS [151];C. K Williams, FOUR POEMS [159]; Charles Simic, POEM [165]; Helen Vendler, BOTH/AND [166]; Harry Clifton, THE AMERICAN MILOSZ [178]; Michael Donaghy, THE EXILE’S ACCENT / FOUR POEMS [183]; Chris Agee, THREE POEMS [188]; John Haines, PROSE POEM AND TWO POEMS [192]; David Copeland Morris, INHUMANISM, ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND AMERICAN LITERATURE [195]; Christopher Merrill, NATURE’S DISCIPLINE [210]; Gary Snyder, POEM [213]; Garrett Hongo, ON ESSENTIALISM [214]; Pattiann Rogers, GREAT PLAINS / EIGHT POEMS [221];Garrett Hongo, TWO POEMS [232]; Sandra McPherson, SEVEN POEMS [234]; John Daniel, FIVE POEMS [247]; Galway Kinnell, THREE POEMS [254]; W S. Merwin, FIVE POEMS [258]; Dennis O’Driscoll, GOLDEN NEWIES [242]; Eamon Grennan, WHAT I HEARD THERE [259]; Seamus Heaney, THRESHOLD AND FLOOR / POEM [265]; Wendy Rose, THE ITCH / FIVE POEMS [269]; Rita Dove, THREE POEMS [279]; Charles Wright, SIX POEMS [282]; List of CONTRIBUTORS [286].