Phyllis Grosskurth, Byron: The Flawed Angel (Peter Davison/Houghton Mifflin), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (Basic Books) "ruminations on the art of translation" with a 16th-century French poem as the prime example, one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" John Hollander, The Work of Poetry (criticism) Sam McCready, A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press (scholarship) Nicholas Murray, A Life of Matthew Arnold (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Belknap/Harvard University), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" Anthologies in the United States Harold Bloom edits The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997 Ross and Kathryn Petras, editors, Very Bad Poetry (Vintage) The Best American Poetry 1997 Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1997, edited by David Lehman, guest editor James Tate: Ai Sherman Alexie Agha Shahid Ali A. R. Ammons Nin Andrews L. S. Asekoff Leevester Clay John Ashbery Marianne Boruch Catherine Bowman Joseph Brodsky Stephanie Brown Joshua Clover Billy Collins Gillian Conoley Jayne Cortez Robert Creeley Carl Dennis William Dickey Robert Dow Thomas Sayers Ellis Irving Feldman Herman Fong Dick Gallup Martin Galvin Amy Gerstler Allen Ginsberg Dana Gioia Elton Glaser Kate Gleason Albert Goldbarth Jorie Graham Donald Hall Daniel Halpern Robert Hass Bob Hicok Paul Hoover Christine Hume Harry Humes Don Hymans Lawson Fusao Inada Richard Jackson Gray Jacobik George Kalamaras Jennifer L. Knox Philip Kobylarz Yusef Komunyakaa Elizabeth Kostova Denise Levertov Larry Levis Matthew Lippman Beth Lisick Khaled Mattawa William Matthews Josip Novakovich Geoffrey Nutter Catie Rosemurgy Clare Rossini Mary Ruefle Hillel Schwartz Maureen Seaton Vijay Seshadri Steven Sherrill Charles Simic Charlie Smith Leon Stokesbury Mark Strand Jack Turner Karen Volkman Derek Walcott Rosanna Warren Lewis Warsh Terence Winch Eve Wood Charles Wright Dean Young Other in English Margaret Avison, Not Yet but Still, Australia Works published in other languages Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: French language France Olivier Barbarant, Aragon: la mémoire et l'excès, publisher: Editions Champ Vallon, Yves Bonnefoy, L'Encore Aveugle, Seyhmus Dagtekin, Artères-solaires, publisher: L'Harmattan; Kurdish Turkish poet writing in French, living in and published in France