Press) received the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award, Rosellen Brown, Cora Fry's Pillow Book Russell Edson, The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson Jane Hirshfield, The October Palace Edward Hirsch, Earthly Measures John Hollander, Animal Poems Andrew Hudgins, The Glass Hammer Galway Kinnell, Imperfect Thirst (Houghton Mifflin) Kenneth Koch: On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988, New York: Knopf One Train: Poems, New York: Knopf James McMichael, Each in a Place Apart Robert Pinsky, translation of Dante's Inferno Wendy Rose, Bone Dance Mary Jo Salter, Sunday Skaters Patti Smith, Early Work Rosmarie Waldrop, A Key Into the Language of America (New Directions Publishers) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories, with pieces on George Oppen, John Berryman, Robinson Jeffers, and Stanley Kunitz Ian Hamilton, editor, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English, New York: Oxford University Press Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman, a study of Sylvia Plath Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook Carl Woodring, editor, Columbia History of British Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press Anthologies in the United States Douglas Messerli, editor, From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry, 1960-1990, including American and Canadian poets; Sun and Moon Press (Messerli's own imprint) Carolyn Forché, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness Jane Hirshfield, editor, Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-Three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women Paul Hoover, editor, Postmodern American Poetry (Norton) The introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by Charles Olson, and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945; about 20 short essays on poetics also included E. Ethelbert Miller, In Search of Color Everywhere, including almost 150 African-American poets Poets in The Best American Poetry 1994 anthology Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1994 edited by David Lehman, guest editor A. R. Ammons: Dick Allen Tom Andrews John Ashbery Burlin Barr Cynthia Bond Catherine Bowman George Bradley Charles Bukowski Rebecca Byrkit Amy Clampitt Michelle T. Clinton James Cummins Ramola Dharmaraj Thomas M. Disch Mark Doty Denise Duhamel Tony Esolen Richard Foerster Alice Fulton Allison Funk Jorie Graham Debora Greger Donald Hall Forrest Hamer Lyn Hejinian Roald Hoffmann John Hollander Janet Holmes Paul Hoover Richard Howard Phyllis Janowitz Mark Jarman Alice Jones Rodney Jones Brigit Pegeen Kelly Caroline Knox Kenneth Koch Dionisio D. Martínez J. D. McClatchy Jeffrey McDaniel