New York: Knopf William Logan, Vain Empires: Poems, (Penguin, paper); a New York Times "notable book of the year" W. S. Merwin: Translator, East Window: The Asian Translations, translated poems from earlier collections, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: Knopf Michael Palmer, The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995 (New Directions), first retrospective of Palmer's work selected by the author himself reprinting much work that had gone out of print Carl Phillips, From the DevotionsMarie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Frederick Seidel Going Fast: Poems, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Mark Strand, Blizzard of One: Poems, (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States Patti Smith, Patti Smith CompleteJames Tate, Shroud of the Gnomes: Poems, (Ecco); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Richard Tayson, The Apprentice of Fever, winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Well Well Reality (The Post-Apollo Press) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Laurence Breiner, An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, scholarship Kenneth Koch, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, New York: Scribner Eric L. Haralson, editor, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Mary Oliver, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical VerseAnthologies in the United States Barbara Tran, Monique T. D. Truong, and Luu Truong Khoi, editors, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop Poets in The Best American Poetry 1998 Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1999, general editor David Lehman, guest editor John Hollander: Jonathan Aaron Agha Shahid Ali Dick Allen A. R. Ammons Daniel Anderson James Applewhite Craig Arnold Sarah Arvio John Ashbery Frank Bidart Robert Bly George Bradley John Bricuth Anne Carson Turner Cassity Henri Cole Billy Collins Alfred Corn James Cummins Thomas M. Disch Denise Duhamel Lynn Emanuel Irving Feldman Emily Fragos Debora Greger Allen Grossman Thom Gunn Marilyn Hacker Rachel Hadas Donald Hall Joseph Harrison Anthony Hecht Daryl Hine Edward Hirsch Richard Howard Andrew Hudgins Mark Jarman Donald Justice Brigit Pegeen Kelly