The Best American Poetry by Hejinian, Lyn

The Best American Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743257572)

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The Best American Poetry by Hejinian, Lyn

The Best American Poetry

$18.99
The Best American Poetry by Hejinian, Lyn

The Best American Poetry

$18.99
Format: Paperback
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The Best American Poetry 2004 celebrates the vitality and richness of poetry in the United States and Canada today. Guest editor Lyn Hejinian, acclaimed for her own innovative writing, has chosen seventy-five important new poems and contributed a provocative introductory essay. Through her selections, Hejinian has created an essential nexus -- a meeting place for readers to encounter an extraordinary range of poets. With illuminating comments from the writers, and series editor David Lehman's insightful foreword evaluating the current state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2004 is an indispensable addition to a series that has established itself as the first word on what's new and noteworthy in the poetry of our times.

Author: Lyn Hejinian
ISBN-10: 074325757X
ISBN-13: 9780743257572
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2004
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.52w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2004 pg. 84
New York Times 11/21/2004 pg. 24
By Lyn Hejinian
By Lyn Hejinian
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Lyn Hejinian is the author or coauthor of more than two dozen books of poetry, including The Fatalist and My Life. She recently received the sixty-sixth Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for distinguished poetic achievement at mid-career. She lives in Berkeley and teaches at the University of California.

David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include The Morning Line, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

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