''The Best American Poetry 1990'', a volume in ''
The Best American Poetry series
''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.
Background
The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...
'', was edited by
David Lehman and by guest editor
Jorie Graham. The book contains seventy-five poems with a range of
poet-authors from a college freshman to the 1990
United States Poet Laureate. David Lehman publicly commented that poetry in America retains its vitality for both the poet and reader, after the 1989 series book attained bestseller status.
Graham chose, as one of the best American poems published in the 12-month period, a work by her husband
"X Marks the West: James Galvin"
at the ''MiPoesias'' literary magazine website ("He was married to Jorie Graham for about 25 years, until they broke up in 2000."), accessed October 9, 2007 at the time, James Galvin.
Poets and poems included
Most represented publications in this volume
The following publications were represented more than once in this year's volume:
See also
* 1990 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
* Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day.
* Jason Shinder, an American poet, expands a New York C ...
Notes
External links
Web page for contents of the book
with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared
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