The Best American poetry, 2004 / Lyn Hejinian, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.

Chicken / Kim Addonizio -- from "Solea of the Simoons" / Will Alexander -- from "Dang Me" / Bruce Andrews -- Almost / Rae Armantrout -- Your friend's arriving on the bus / Craig Arnold -- Wolf Ridge / John Ashbery -- The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity / Mary Jo Bang -- 20 Questions / Alan Bernheimer -- Sign Under Test / Charles Bernstein -- Token Enabler / Anselm Berrigan -- from "Blasted Fields of Clover Bring Harrowing and Regretful Sighs" / Mark Bibbins -- The Walk / Oni Buchanan -- a cloud of dusk / Michael Burkard -- Gnosticism / Anne Carson -- Landscape with a Calm / T. J. Clark -- The Centrifuge / Billy Collins -- 3-4-00 / Jack Collom -- Ode to My Flint and Boom Bolivia / Michael Costello -- Bad Modernism / Michael Davidson -- You Art A Scholar, Horatio, Speak To It / Olena Kalytiak Davis -- Prose of the World Order / Jean Day -- 13 / Linh Dinh -- All Souls / Rita Dove -- Draft 55: Quiptych / Rachel Blau Duplessis -- short sorry / kari edwards -- Sibling Rivalry / Kenward Elmslie -- 337,000, December, 2000 / Aaron Fogel -- Saints / Arielle Greenberg -- Anyway / Ted Greenwald -- Nostalgia of the Infinite / Barbara Guest -- from "Baby" / Carla Harryman -- Poe: An Assay (1) / Jane Hirshfield -- For 'Fiddle-De-Dee' / John Hollander -- Catholic / Fanny Howe -- [Record] / Kenneth Irby -- from "Urban Renewal" / Major Jackson -- King of Repetition / Marc Jaffee -- The Man / Kenneth Koch -- To an Audience / John Koethe -- Ignis Fatuus / Yusef Komunyakaa -- The Dark Continent / Sean Manzano Labrador -- After Mahler / Ann Lauterbach -- Sound and Cerement / Nathaniel Mackey -- Lateral Disregard / Harry Mathews - Some Versions of Pastoral / Steve McCaffery -- Mars Needs Terrorists / K. Silem Mohammed -- 8 Little Theatres of the Cornices / Erin Moure -- The Last Time I Saw Chris / Paul Muldoon -- No Rewriting / Eileen Myles -- State of the Union / Alice Notley -- Blue Collar Holiday / Jeni Olin -- RSVP / Danielle Pafunda -- Real Toads / Heidi Peppermint -- Here 2 / Bob Perelman -- Pleasure / Carl Phillips -- Samba / Robert Pinsky -- In the First Circle of Limbo / Carl Rakosi -- Ideas Gray Suits Bowler Hats Baal / Ed Roberson -- The 3D Matchmove Artist / Kit Robinson -- the story / Carly Sachs -- III / Jennifer Scappettone -- Love Song / Frederick Seidel -- A Burning Interior / David Shapiro -- Compliance Engineering / Ron Silliman -- Song of the Ransom of the Dark / Bruce Smith -- They're Putting a New Door In / Brian Kim Stefans -- Dog That I Am / Gerald Stern -- La Florida / Virgil Suarez -- Acanthus / Arthur Sze -- Bounden Duty / James Tate -- The Theorist Has No Samba! / Edwin Torres -- Meditatio Lectoris / Rodrigo Toscano -- Appeal to the Grammarians / Paul Violi -- Trying to Make Music / David Wagoner -- In Praise of Han Shan / Charles Wright.