Brodsky: On Grief and Reason: Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Russian-American Henri Cole, The Look of Things Nicholas Coles & Peter Oresick, For a Living (University of Illinois Press) Alice Fulton, Sensual Math Michael S. Harper, Honorable Amendments Fanny Howe, O'Clock Walter K. Lew, editor, Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American poetry, New York: Kaya Productions James Merrill, A Scattering of Salts (his last book) Carl Rakosi, Poems, 1923-1941 Mary Oliver, Blue Pastures Michael Palmer, At Passages Molly Peacock, Original Love Carl Phillips, Cortége Giorgos Seferis, Complete Poems (in English), translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Helen Vendler, The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham, Harvard University Press John Hollander, The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art, criticism The Best American Poetry 1995 Richard Howard is the guest editor for The Best American Poetry 1995 (David Lehman, series editor). Howard changes the rules of inclusion for this year: "[P]oets whose work has appeared three or more times in this series are here and now ineligible, as are all seven former editors of the series." A total of 75 poems are included. Poems from these 75 poets were in this year's anthology: Margaret Atwood Sally Ball Catherine Bowman Stephanie Brown Lewis Buzbee Cathleen Calbert Rafael Campo William Carpenter Nicholas Christopher Jane Cooper James Cummins Olena Kalytiak Davis Lynn Emanuel Elaine Equi Irving Feldman Donald Finkel Aaron Fogel Richard Frost Allen Ginsberg Peter Gizzi Jody Gladding Elton Glaser Albert Goldbarth Beckian Fritz Goldberg Laurence Goldstein Barbara Guest Marilyn Hacker Judith Hall Anthony Hecht Edward Hirsch Janet Holmes Andrew Hudgins T. R. Hummer Brigit Pegeen Kelly Karl Kirchwey Carolyn Kizer Wayne Koestenbaum John Koethe Yusef Komunyakaa Maxine Kumin Lisa Lewis Rachel Loden James Longenbach Robert Hill Long Gail Mazur J. D. McClatchy Heather McHugh Susan Musgrave Charles North Geoffrey O'Brien Jacqueline Osherow Molly Peacock Carl Phillips Marie Ponsot Bin Ramke Katrina Roberts Michael J. Rosen Kay Ryan Mary Jo Salter Tony Sanders Stephen Sandy Grace Schulman Robyn Selman Alan Shapiro Reginald Shepherd Angela Sorby Laurel Trivelpiece Paul Violi Arthur Vogelsang David Wagoner Charles H. Webb Ed Webster David Wojahn Jay Wright Stephen Yenser Other in English Aharon Shabtai, Ha-lev ("The Heart"), Hebrew The Labourers of Herakles Works published in other languages Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native