York Times "notable book of the year") Stanley Lombardo (translator), Odyssey by Homer, Hackett (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990–1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States Constance Merritt, A Protocol for Touch: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, selected by Eleanor Wilner W. S. Merwin, translation, Purgatorio from The Divine Comedy of Dante; New York: Knopf; (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Grazyna Miller, Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath) Michael O'Brien, Sills: Selected Poems, Zoland Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud (prose poem) Grace Paley, Begin Again: Collected Poems Michael Palmer, The Promises of Glass Carl Phillips, Pastoral Robert Pinsky, Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Michael Ryan, A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing (essays) Gjertrud Schnackenberg: The Throne of Labdacus, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Supernatural Love: Poems 1976–1992, Derek Walcott, The Prodigal (West Indian) Louis Zukofsky, Wesleyan University Press begins publishing The Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings of Louis Zukofsky (posthumous) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States John Ashbery, Other Traditions (Harvard University Press), thoughts on six poets (John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert); from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (criticism) Alison Lurie, Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson Helen Vendler, Seamus Heaney, Anthologies in the United States Stephen Berg, David Bonanno, and Arthur Vogelsang, editors, The Body Electric, anthology of poetry published in The American Poetry Review, 1972–1999.(W.W. Norton & Company), 820 pages American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, two volumes, The Library of America (Henry Adams to May Swenson) Cary Nelson, editor, Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Oxford University Press (also published in the United Kingdom) Jeffrey Paine, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, and Helen Vendler, editors, The Poetry of Our World: an International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, New York: HarperCollins Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 2000 These 75 poets had poems published in The Best American Poetry 2000, edited by David Lehman, with Rita Dove as guest editor: Kim Addonizio Pamela Alexander A. R. Ammons Julianna Baggott Erin Belieu