In The Best American Poetry 2001, poet and guest editor Robert Hass wrote, "There are roughly three traditions in American poetry at this point: a metrical tradition that can be very nervy and that is also basically classical in impulse; a strong central tradition of free verse made out of both romanticism and modernism, split between the impulses of an inward and psychological writing and an outward and realist one, at its best fusing the two; and an experimental tradition that is usually more passionate about form than content, perception than emotion, restless with the conventions of the art, skeptical about the political underpinnings of current practice, and intent on inventing a new one, or at least undermining what seems repressive in the current formed style. [...] At the moment there are poets doing good, bad, and indifferent work in all these ranges." Critic Maureen McLane said of Hass' description that "it's hard to imagine a more judicious account of major tendencies."[3]
Sharon Thesen, editor, The New Long Poem Anthology, Burnaby, British Columbia: Talonbooks
Daniel Wincenty, Words of Wisdom from a Man Claiming to be Fred Rogers (Coach House Books) ISBN978-1-55245-067-3
India, in English
Imtiaz Dharker, I Speak for the Devil ( Poetry in English ), first foreign edition brought out from United Kingdom by Bloodaxe (first India edition: Penguin Books India, 2003)[5]
Carol Ann Duffy, editor, Hand in Hand: An Anthology of Love Poems, Picador (anthology); 36 poets from around the world were each invited to select a love poem written by someone of the opposite sex and appearing opposite the selecting poet's own love poem[16]
James Fenton: A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed, Viking / Farrar, Straus and Giroux[17]
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
Stephen Wade, editor, Gladsongs and Gatherings: Poetry and Its Social Context in Liverpool Since the 1960s, Liverpool University Press, ISBN0-85323-727-1
Paul Muldoon, Poems 1968–1998 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; Irish poet living in the United States
Amos Oz, The Same Sea (Harcourt); a novel about sexual hanky-panky involving a man, son and several women; most of the book is in verse; the author collaborated on the translation by Nicholas de Lange); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Jay Wright, Transfigurations: Collected Poems (Louisiana State University Press); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Anthologies in the United States
Caroline Kennedy, editor, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a hardcover New York Times best seller for 15 weeks late this year and into 2002.[24]
Michelle Yeh and N. G. D. Malmqvist, Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Columbia University Press
Ewa Lipska, Sklepy zoologiczne ("Pet Shops"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie[37]
Tadeusz Różewicz, Nożyk profesora ("The Professor's Knife"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie[38]
Tomasz Różycki, Chata Umaita ("Country Cottage"), Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża[39]
Jan Twardowski, Kiedy mówisz. When You Say, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie[40]
Other languages
Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Adolf Endler, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2002 ("Poetry Yearbook 2002"), publisher: Beck; anthology; Germany[41]
Katrine Marie Guldager, Ankomst Husumgade, publisher: Gyldendal; Denmark[42]
Klaus Høeck, In nomine, publisher: Gyldendal; Denmark[43]
Chen Kehua, Hua yu lei yu heliu ("Flowers and Tears and Rivers") Chinese (Taiwan)[44]
Jun Er, Chenmo yu xuanhua de shijie ("Quiet in a Tumultuous World"), Chinese (People's Republic of China)[45]
Rahman Henry, Circusmukhorito Graam, ( A Book of Poetry ), Bangladesh.
Rie Yasumi, 平凡な兎 ("Ordinary Rabbit") and やすみりえのとっておき川柳道場 ("Senryu Dojo reserve: Fun begins at any time"), Japan
^[2] Hass quoted from his Introduction to The Best American Poetry 2001, by Maureen McLane in "Eclectic collection: A new anthology of American works includes a wide range of forms, styles and themes", a review of the book on page 4 of the Books section of the Chicago Tribune, September 23, 2001, accessed via Newsbank.com Web site, October 13, 2007
^ abc"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
^[6] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
^Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927– )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
^McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
^[7] Garner, Dwight, "TBR/ Inside the List" column, The New York Times Book Review, January 15, 2006
^Web page titled "Jean Royer"Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine at L'Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
^Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in EnglishArchived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine and PolishArchived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
^Web pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (in EnglishArchived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine and PolishArchived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010
^Web page titled "Tomasz Różycki", at Culture.pl website, retrieved March 1, 2010
^Web page titled "Jan Twardowski"Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
^Lundtofte, Anne Mette, translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte, "Author Profile: Katrine Marie Guldager", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, dated "2005", retrieved January 1, 2010
^Web page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
^Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008
^Patten, Simon, "Jun Er"Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008