The reversed pietà: Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish"
Flower power: Louise Glück's The Wild iris
Veracity unshaken: A.R. Ammons'Sumerian vistas
Recomposed and clarified: James Merrill's The Inner room
Southern weather: Dave Smith
Huge pits of darkness, high peaks of lights: Robinson Jeffers
New York pastoral: James Schuyler
Imagination pressing back: Frank Bidart, Albert Goldbarth, and Amy Clampitt
Election and reprobation: Donald Davie's Collected poems
A world of foreboding: Charles Simic
American Zen: Gary Snyder's No nature
A steely glitter chasing shadows: John Ashbery's Flow chart
A dissonant triad: Henri Cole, Rita Dove, and August Kleinzahler
The black dove: Rita Dove, poet laureate
Drawn to figments and occasion: Lucie Brock-Broido's A Hunger
Second thoughts: Seamus Heaney's The Haw lantern
A wounded man falling towards me: Seamus Heaney's The Government of the tongue
Earth and ethereality: Seamus Henry's Selected poems, 1966-1987
Mapping the air: Adrienne Rich and Jorie Graham
Married to hurry and grim song: Jorie Graham's The End of beauty
Fin-de-siècle poetry: Jorie Graham.