The Best American Poetry 1995 Book

	Foreword	9
	Introduction	15
	Bored	21
	Nocturnal	23
	Mr. X	25
	Schadenfreude	27
	Sunday, Tarzan in His Hammock	29
	The Woman Who Loved Things	31
	The Battle Hymn of the Republic	33
	Girl Writing a Letter	35
	Terminus	37
	The Infusion Room	40
	Sestina	43
	Thirty Years Rising	45
	Film Noir: Train Trip Out of Metropolis	48
	Sometimes I Get Distracted	50
	Terminal Laughs	51
	In the Clearing	54
	The Printer's Error	65
	For a Brother	68
	Salutations to Fernando Pessoa	69
	Another Day on the Pilgrimage	71
	Asparagus	75
	Undead White European Male	77
	A Still Life, Symbolic of Lines	80
	Being Pharaoh	83
	Permissive Entry: A Sermon on Fame	88
	If So	91
	Days of 1992	93
	St. Peregrinus' Cancer	96
	Prospects	98
	Unearthly Voices	99
	Against the Literal	103
	Seventeen	104
	Apocatastasis Foretold in the Shape of a Canvas of Smoke	106
	All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer	108
	Sonogram	113
	On a Line from Valery	114
	1975	115
	Falling Water	117
	Troubling the Water	129
	Getting the Message	132
	Bridget	134
	My Night with Philip Larkin	137
	Refuge	138
	What You Find in the Woods	141
	Fracture Santa Monica	143
	My Mammogram	145
	And What Do You Get	149
	Exchange of Fire	150
	Shooting for Line	152
	The Interior Prisoner	158
	Late Night Tete-a-Tete with a Moon in Transit	164
	Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?	175
	Toys	179
	Old Mama Saturday	181
	How Light Is Spent	183
	How Late Desire Looks	185
	The Night Before His Parents' First Trip to Europe His Mother Writes a Letter 'To Our Children'	187
	Outsider Art	189
	The Age of Reason	190
	Transit Authority	192
	Threads	194
	The Present Perfect	197
	Avec Amour	199
	Manufacturing	204
	Brotherhood	208
	Museum Piece	210
	The Nursery	212
	Scatter	214
	The Nose, the Grand Canyon, and the Sixties	217
	Walt Whitman Bathing	219
	The Shape of History	221
	San Joaquin Valley Poems: 1969	222
	Homage to Ryszard Kapuscinski	225
	The Cradle Logic of Autumn	229
	Blue Guide	231
	Contributors' Notes and Comments	239
	Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published	283
	Acknowledgments	286
	Cumulative Series Index	290