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Author : Lyn Hejinian,David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780743257572
The eagerly anticipated new edition of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry is now a brand name in the literary world.
Author : Lyn Hejinian,David Lehman
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 074325757X
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 : David Lehman,Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781416592075
This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the last word in poetry today. Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected -- from a pool of several thousand published candidates -- the top seventy-five poems of the year. "The all-consuming interests of American poetry are the all-consuming interests of poetry all over," writes Muldoon in his incisive introduction to the volume. The Best American Poetry 2005 features a superb company of artists ranging from established masters of the craft, such as John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, and Charles Wright, to rising stars like Kay Ryan, Tony Hoagland, and Beth Ann Fennelly. With insightful comments from the poets elucidating their work, and series editor David Lehman's perspicacious foreword addressing the state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2005 is indispensable for every poetry enthusiast.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015060123042
A collection of a great variety of American poetry published in 2004.
Author : David Wagoner,David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1439166269
David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engaging notes from the poets, Wagoner's superb introductory essay, series editor David Lehman's astute foreword about the current state of poetry and criticism, and cover art from the beloved poet John Ashbery, The Best American Poetry 2009 is a memorable and delightful addition to a series dedicated to showcasing the work of poets at their best.
Author : Charles Wright,David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780743299756
An anthology of poetry selected as the best published in magazines and periodicals in 2007 by editor Charles Wright, featuring seventy-five poems by Carolyn Forche, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Alex Lemon, and others.
Author : David Lehman,Terrance Hayes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781476708157
Featuring an introduction by a National Book Award-winning writer and a foreword by the award-winning Best American Poetry series editor, a latest annual anthology complements top-selected American poems of the year with poet notes about their creative processes.
Author : David Lehman,Elaine Equi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781982186760
Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents some of the year’s most striking and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2023 guest editor Elaine Equi, whose own work is “deft, delicate [and] subversive” (August Kleinzahler), has made astute choices representing contemporary poetry at its most dynamic. The result is an exceptionally coherent vision of American poetry today. Including valuable introductory essays contributed by the series and guest editors, the 2023 volume is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series.
Author : David Lehman,Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781982186708
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year’s most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are “for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings” (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry.
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781982106638
"Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte's words, "beautiful and serene" in their surfaces with an underlying "sense of an unknown vastness." In The Best American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Gl
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781982106607
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year’s most remarkable poems and poets. Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah’s Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called “a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries” by the Los Angeles Times. In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the “contraries” of our present moment in time.
Author : David Lehman,Major Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781982106584
The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry—“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)—now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, “The poems...have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative about life today…While readers may question some of the selections—an annual sport with this series—most will find much that resonates, including the insightful author notes at the back of the anthology.” The state of the world has inspired many to write poetry, and to read it—to share all the rage, beauty, and every other thing under the sun in the way that only poetry can. Now the foremost anthology of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Major Jackson, the poet and editor who, “makes poems that rumble and rock” (poet Dorianne Laux). This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year’s most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.
Author : David Lehman,Rita Dove
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743200332
Former Poet Laureate Dove has chosen the best poems of the year from a wide range of literary magazines and journals, presenting works by W.S. Merwin, Lucille Clifton, Susan Mitchell, John Ashbery, and others. The poets comment about their work. Lehman writes the Foreword.
Author : David Lehman,Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781476708218
The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues with an exceptional volume edited by award-winning novelist and poet Sherman Alexie, now with a new essay by Alexie on reactions to the 2015 publication. Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry has become a mainstay for the direction and spirit of American poetry. Each volume in the series presents the year’s most extraordinary new poems and writers. Guest editor Sherman Alexie’s picks for The Best American Poetry 2015 highlight the depth and breadth of the American experience. Culled from electronic and print journals, the poems showcase some of our leading luminaries—Amy Gerstler, Terrance Hayes, Ron Padgett, Jane Hirshfield—and introduce a number of outstanding younger poets taking their place in the limelight. A leading figure since his breakout poetry collection The Business of Fancydancing in 1992, Sherman Alexie won the National Book Award for his novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. He describes himself as “lucky enough to be a full-time writer” and has written short stories, novels, screenplays, and essays—but he is at his core a poet. As always, series editor David Lehman’s foreword assessing the state of the art kicks off the book, followed by an introductory essay in which Alexie discusses his selections. The Best American Poetry 2015 is a guide to who’s who and what’s happening in American poetry today.
Author : Denise Duhamel,David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781476708027
Collects poems chosen by editor Denise Duhamel as the best of 2013, featuring 75 poets including Sherman Alexie, Daisy Fried, Elizabeth Hazen, and Noelle Kocot.