The Best American Poetry 1998, a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor John Hollander.
Poets and poems included Poet Poem Where poem previously appeared Jonathan Aaron "Mr. Moto's Confession" The New Republic Agha Shahid Ali "The Floating Post Office" The Kenyon Review Dick Allen "The Cove" The Hudson Review A. R. Ammons "Now Then" Michigan Quarterly Review Daniel Anderson "A Possum's Tale" Raritan James Applewhite "Botanical Garden: The Coastal Plains" The Southern Review Craig Arnold "Hot" Poetry Sarah Arvio from "Visits from the Seventh" The Paris Review John Ashbery "Wakefulness"] The New Yorker Frank Bidart "The Second Hour of the Night" The Threepenny Review Robert Bly "A Week of Poems at Bennington" AGNI George Bradley "In an Old Garden" The New Yorker John Bricuth from "Just Let me Say This About That" Southwest Review Anne Carson "TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2)" The Paris Review Turner Cassity "Symbol of the Faith" Southwest Review Henri Cole "Self-Portrait as Four Styles of Pompeian Wall Painting" The New Republic Billy Collins "Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey" Poetry Alfred Corn "Jaffa" New England Review James Cummins "Echo" The Antioch Review Thomas M. Disch "What Else Is There" Poetry Denise Duhamel "The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope" Salt Hill Lynn Emanuel "Like God" Boston Review Irving Feldman "Movietime" The Kenyon Review Emily Fragos "Apollo's Kiss" Chelsea (magazine) Debora Greger "Mass in B Minor" New England Review Allen Grossman "Weird River" Partisan Review Thom Gunn "To Cupid" The New Yorker Marilyn Hacker "Again, The River" Ploughshares Rachel Hadas "Pomegranate Variations" The Kenyon Review Donald Hall "Letter with No Address" Ploughshares Joseph Harrison "The Cretonnes of Penelope" The Paris Review Anthony Hecht "Rara Avis in Terris" The New Republic Daryl Hine "The World Is Everything That Is the Case" Poetry Edward Hirsch "The Lectures on Love" The Paris Review Richard Howard "The Job Interview" The New Republic Andrew Hudgins "The Hanging Gardens" River Styx Mark Jarman "The Word "Answer" Connecticut Review Donald Justice "Stanzas on a Hidden Theme" The New Yorker Brigit Pegeen Kelly "The Orchard" New England Review Karl Kirchwey "Roman Hours" The Yale Review Carolyn Kizer "Second Time Around" Michigan Quarterly Review Kenneth Koch "Ballade" The Yale Review John Koethe "The Secret Amplitude" Southwest Review Rika Lesser "About Her" Poetry Phillis Levin "Ontological" The New Criterion Philip Levine "Drum" Michigan Quarterly Review Rebecca McClanahan "Making Love" The Gettysburg Review J. D. McClatchy "Descartes's Dream" Southwest Review Heather McHugh "Past All Understanding" Denver Quarterly Sandra McPherson "Chalk-Circle Compass" Poetry W. S. Merwin "The Chinese Mountain Fox" The Yale Review Robert Mezey "Joe Simpson [ 1919-1996]" The New Yorker A. F. Moritz "Artisan and Clerk" The Yale Review Thylias Moss "The Right Empowerment of Light" Michigan Quarterly Review William Mullen "Enchanted Rock" The Yale Review Eric Ormsby "Flamingos" The Gettysburg Review Jacqueline Osherow "Views of La Leggenda della Vera Croce" Western Humanities Review Robert Pinsky "Ode to Meaning" The Threepenny Review Reynolds Price "The Closing, the Ecstasy" Poetry Wyatt Prunty "March" Connecticut Review Stephen Sandy "Four Corners, Vermont" The New Republic Alan Shapiro "The Coat" Ploughshares Robert B. Shaw "A Geode" The Hudson Review Charles Simic "Ambiguity's Wedding" FIELD Mark Strand "The View" The London Review of Books James Tate "Dream On" American Poetry Review Sidney Wade "A Calm November. Sunday in the Fields." Denver Quarterly Derek Walcott "Signs" Conjunctions Rosanna Warren "'Departure'" The New Republic Rachel Wetzsteon "from "Home and Away"" The Paris Review Susan Wheeler "Shanked on the Red Bed" The New Yorker Richard Wilbur "For C." The New Yorker C. K. Williams "The Bed" Ontario Review Greg Williamson "The Dark Days" The Yale Review Charles Wright "Returned to the Yaak Cabin, I Overhear an Old Greek Song" Poetry
See also 1998 in poetry
Notes
External links Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared