''The Best American Poetry 1999'', 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
David Lehman (born June 11, 1948[David Lehman]
at poets.org) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and li ...
and by guest editor
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ' ...
.
Poets and poems included
See also
*
1999 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
* 1 May 1999 — Andrew Motion becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for 10 years
* 1 July 1999 — Scotland's ...
Notes
External links
Web page for contents of the book with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared
Reviews
"On the Prosing of Poetry: How Contemporary American Poets Are Denaturing the Poem", by Joan Houlihan at ''Boston Comment'' Web site. (A negative reaction to much in this volume)
"What is Found", a positive review in ''Thumbscrew'', No. 16, Summer 2000
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