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From the smoky jazz clubs to crowded schoolrooms, from street corners to the steps of the Capitol on Inaugural Day, America is celebrating its poetry, and "The Best American Poetry 1993" adds generously to the nation's chorus of contemporary voices. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Gluck, guest editor of the 1993 edition, has chosen seventy-five poems from nearly four dozen literary journals and magazines - more than ever before. Thirty poets make their debut in the series the "Washington Post" champions as the "best hope we have to extending the audience" of American poetry.