Storm Damage Kathleen Raine, To the Sun Peter Reading, Final Demands Jeremy Reed, Engaging Form Carol Rumens, The Greening of the Snow Beach E. J. Scovell, Collected Poems Peter Scupham, The Air Show Jo Shapcott, Electroplating the Baby Lemn Sissay, Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist R.S. Thomas, The Echoes Return Slow Nika Turbina, First Draft: Poems by Nika Turbina, translated by Elaine Feinstein and Antonina W. Bouis, Marion Boyars Heathcote Williams, Whale Nation Anthologies The New British Poetry, a poetry anthology, jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram, respectively concerned with feminist, Afro-Caribbean, younger and British poetry revival poets, all writing from 1968 to 1988 Elaine Feinstein, editor, PEN New Poetry II, Quartet United States Meena Alexander, House of a Thousand Doors, poetry and prose, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States Ted Berrigan, A Certain Slant of Sunlight Joseph Brodsky: To Urania : Selected Poems, 1965-1985, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Russian-American Gwendolyn Brooks, Winnie Raymond Carver, In a Marine Light: Selected Poems Maxine Chernoff, Japan (Avenue B Press) Billy Collins, The Apple That Astonished Paris Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States Jane Hirshfield, Of Gravity & Angels John Hollander: Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language Harp Lake Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (posthumous), translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York first translation into English as "Poet in New York" this year (written in 1930, first published posthumously in 1940) William Logan, Sullen Weedy Lakes James Merrill, The Inner Room W. S. Merwin: The Rain in the Trees, New York: Knopf Selected Poems, New York: Atheneum Michael Palmer, Sun Marie Ponsot, The Green Dark Rosmarie Waldrop, Shorter American Memory (Paradigm Press) Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 1988 The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 1988, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by John Ashbery: A. R. Ammons Ralph Angel Rae Armantrout John Ash John Ashbery Ted Berrigan Mei-mei Berssenbrugge George Bradley Stefan Brecht Joseph Brodsky Nicholas Christopher Marc Cohen Wanda Coleman Clark Coolidge Alfred Corn Douglas Crase Robert Creeley Thomas M. Disch Kenward Elmslie Alice