The Best of the Best American Poetry by Lehman, David

The Best of the Best American Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781451658880)

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The Best of the Best American Poetry by Lehman, David

The Best of the Best American Poetry

$18.99
The Best of the Best American Poetry by Lehman, David

The Best of the Best American Poetry

$18.99
Format: Paperback
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Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American Poetry

This special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized. Each volume consists of seventy-five poems chosen by a major American poet acting as guest editor--from John Ashbery in 1988 to Mark Doty in 2012, with stops along the way for such poets as Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Louise Gl?k, Adrienne Rich, Billy Collins, Heather McHugh, and Kevin Young. Out of the 1,875 poems that have appeared in The Best American Poetry, here are 100 that Robert Pinsky, the distinguished poet and man of letters, has chosen for this milestone edition.

Author: David Lehman
ISBN-10: 1451658885
ISBN-13: 9781451658880
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2013
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2013 pg. 70
Booklist 03/15/2013 pg. 42
Shelf Awareness 04/05/2013
Publishers Weekly 04/15/2013
By David Lehman
By David Lehman
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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.

Robert Pinsky was the nation's Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000. An acclaimed poet and scholar of poetry, he is also an internationally renowned man of letters. His Selected Poems was published in paperback in March 2012. His other books include The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide and his bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He teaches at Boston University and is the poetry editor at Slate.

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