poem and three elegies Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood, lyric poems Louise Glück, Meadowlands Haim Gouri, Milim Be-Dami Holeh Ahavah ("Words in My Love-Sick Blood"), selected poems in English translation Detroit: Wayne State University Press, Paul Henry, Captive Audience, Seren Mark Jarman and David Mason, editors, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism Ronald Johnson, ARK (Albuquerque: Living Batch Press & University of New Mexico Press) Kenneth Koch, The Art of Poetry, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press (criticism) Maxine Kumin, Connecting the Dots James McMichael, The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996 W. S. Merwin Editor, Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology, Washington: Counterpoint Translator, Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines The Vixen: Poems, New York: Knopf Robert Pinsky, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 James Reiss, The Parable of Fire Patti Smith, The Coral Sea Gary Snyder, Mountains and Rivers Without End Brian Swann, editor, Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems, New York: Random House Henry Taylor, Understanding Fiction: Poems 1986-1996 C. K. Williams, The VigilPoets in The Best American Poetry 1996 Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1996, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Adrienne Rich: Latif Asad Abdullah Sherman Alexie Margaret Atwood Thomas Avena Marie Annharte Baker Sidney Burris Rosemary Catacalos Marilyn Chin Wanda Coleman Jacqueline Dash Ingrid de Kok William Dickey Nancy Eimers Nancy Eimers Martin Espada Martin Espada Beth Ann Fennelly Robert C. Fuentes Rámon Garcia, Salmo Suzanne Gardinier Frank Gaspar Reginald Gibbons C. S. Giscombe Kimiko Hahn Gail Hanlon Henry Hart William Heyen Jonathan Johnson Jane Kenyon August Kleinzahler Yusef Komunyakaa Stanley Kunitz Natasha Le Bel Natasha Le Bel Carolyn Lei-Lanilau Valerie Martínez Davis McCombs Sandra McPherson James Merrill W. S. Merwin Jane Miller Susan Mitchell Pat Mora Alice Notley Naomi Shihab Nye Alicia Ostriker Raymond Patterson Carl Phillips Wing Ping Sterling Plumpp Katherine Alice Power Reynolds Price Alberto Álvaro Ríos Pattiann Rogers Quentin Rowan David Shapiro Angela Shaw Reginald Shepherd Enid Shomer Gary Soto Jean Starr Deborah Stein Roberta Tejada Chase Twichell Luís Alberto Urrea Jean Valentine Alma Luz Villanueva Karen Volkman Diane Wakoski Ron Welburn Susan Wheeler Paul Wilis Anne Winters C. Dale Young Ray A. Young Bear Other in English Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (The Call Of The Marching Bell), a philosophical poetry book in Urdu; M.A.K. Khalil translation into English of the 1923 work