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The best American poetry

John Ashbery, editor ; David Lehman, series editor

Collier : Macmillan, 1988-

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Statements of responsibility varies: 1990, Jorie Graham, editor; 1992, Charles Simic, editor; 1993, Louise Glück, editor; 1995, Richard Howard, editor; 1996, Adrienne Rich, editor; 1997, James Tate, editor; 1998, John Hollander, editor; 1999, Robert Bly, editor; 2000, Rita Dove, editor; 2001, Robert Hass, editor; 2002, Robert Creeley, editor; 2003, Yusef Komunyakaa, editor; 2005, Paul Muldoon, editor; 2006, Billy Collins, editor; 2007, Heather McHugh, editor; 2008, Charles Wright, editor; 2009, David Wagoner, editor; 2010, Amy Gerstler, editor; 2011, Kevin Young, editor; 2012, Mark Doty, editor; 2013, Denise Duhamel, editor; 2014, Terrance Hayes, editor; 2015, Sherman Alexie, editor; 2016, Edward Hirsch, editor; 2017, Natasha Trethewey, editor; 2018, Dana Gioia, editor; 2019, Major Jackson, editor

1995-: Publisher varies: New York ; Tokyo : Scribner, 2010-: New York ; Scribner Poetry

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Volume

1995 ISBN 9780684801513

Description

The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on discovery and surprise, and he has gleaned the most inventive and searching writing from a wide variety of literary journals. The themes and imagery here are indisputably "American," as our best poets continue to mine personal as well as communal experience for their work. Now in its eighth year, this series has established itself as a rich and vibrant source of new poetry -- celebrated in bookstores and on college campuses. Welcome, once again, the memorable voices and unique pleasures of Best American Poetry. Featuring: Margaret Atwood Sally Ball Catherine Bowman Stephanie Brown Lewis Buzbee Cathleen Calbert Rafael Campo William Carpenter Nicholas Christopher Jane Cooper James Cummins Olena Kalytiak Davis Lynn Emanuel Elaine Equi Irving Feldman Donald Finkel Aaron Fogel Richard Frost Allen Ginsberg Peter Gizzi Jody Gladding Elton Glaser Albert Goldbarth Beckian Fritz Goldberg Laurence Goldstein Barbara Guest Marilyn Hacker Judith Hall Anthony Hecht Edward Hirsch Janet Holmes Andrew Hudgins T.R. Hummer Brigit Pegeen Kelly Karl Kirchwey Carolyn Kizer Wayne Koestenbaum John Koethe Yusef Komunyakaa Maxine Kumin Lisa Lewis Rachel Loden Robert Hill Long James Longenbach Gail Mazur J. D. McClatchy Heather McHugh Susan Musgrave Charles North Geoffrey O'Brien Jacqueline Osherow Molly Peacock Carl Phillips Marie Ponsot Bin Ramke Katrina Roberts Michael J. Rosen Kay Ryan Mary Jo Salter Tony Sanders Stephen Sandy Grace Schulman Robyn Selman Alan Shapiro Reginald Shepherd Anglea Sorby Laurel Trivelpiece Paul Violi Arthur Vogelsang David Wagoner Charles H. Webb Ed Webster David Wojahn Jay Wright Stephen Yenser
Volume

1996 ISBN 9780684814513

Description

From Simon & Schuster, in its ninth year, The Best American Poetry 1996 is universally acclaimed as the best anthology in the field. The compilation includes a diverse abundance of poems published in 1995 in more than 40 publications ranging from The New Yorker to The Paris Review to Bamboo Ridge.
Volume

1998 ISBN 9780684814537

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Published annually, this title is the 1998 collection of the best American poetry, featuring poems from such writers as Anthony Hecht, Richard Wilbur, and Rosanna Warren. Published in hardback.
Volume

1997 ISBN 9780684814544

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A selection of the 75 best American poems of 1997 chosen by poet James Tate. The verse and prose poems are by both established figures such as Jorie Graham, Donald Hall and John Ashberry, and emerging poets such as Billy Collins and Linda Gregerson.
Volume

2000 ISBN 9780684842813

Description

Since its debut in 1988, sales for The Best American Poetry have nearly quadrupled. Now, in the midst of a present explosion in the interest of poetry nationwide (The New York Times), this renowned series promises to deliver one of its finest volumes yet with Rita Dove as the year's guest editor. One of the most prominent figures in the poetry world, former Poet Laureate Dove brings all of her dynamism and well-honed acumen to bear on the project.Dove has chosen the best poems of the year from a wide range of literary magazines and journals. Along with the work of today's most celebrated poets, including W. S. Merwin, Lucille Clifton, Susan Mitchell, and John Ashbery, Dove has also selected several fresh and diverse poems from a host of groundbreaking newcomers. Featuring comments from the poets elucidating their work and a Foreword by Series Editor David Lehman, The Best American Poetry 2000 is an especially strong addition to the series People magazine called, a year's worth of the very best.
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2000 : pbk ISBN 9780743200332

Description

Since its debut in 1988, sales for THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY have nearly quadrupled. Now, in the midst of a present 'explosion in the interest of poetry nationwide' (The New York Times), this renowned seried promises to deliver one of its finest volumes yet with Rita Dove as the year's guest editor. One of the most prominent figures in the poetry world, former Poet Laureate Dove brings all of her dynamism and well-honed acumen to bear on the project. Dove has chosen the best poems of the year from a wide range of literary magazines and journals. Along with the work of today's most celebrated poets, including W.S Merwin, Lucille Clifton, Susan Mitchell, and John Ashbery, Dove has also selected several fresh and diverse poems from a host of groundbreaking newcomers. Featuring comments from the poets elucidating their work and a Foreword by Series Editor David Lehman, THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2000 is an especially strong addition to the series PEOPLE magazine called, 'a year's worth of the very best.'

Table of Contents

CONTENTS Foreword by David Lehman Introduction by Rita Dove Kim Addonizio, "Virgin Spring" Pamela Alexander, "Semiotics" A. R. Ammons, "Shot Glass" Julianna Baggott, "Mary Todd on Her Deathbed" Erin Belieu, "Choose Your Garden" Richard Blanco, "Mango, Number 61" Janet Bowdan, "The Year" Grace Butcher, "Crow Is Walking" Lucille Clifton, "Signs" Billy Collins, "Man Listening to Disc" Jim Daniels, "Between Periods" Linh Dinh, "The Most Beautiful Word" Gregory Djanikian, "Immigrant Picnic" Denise Duhamel, "Incest Taboo" Christopher Edgar, "Birthday" Karl Elder, "Alpha Images" Lynn Emanuel, "Walt. I Salute You!" B. H. Fairchild, "Mrs. Hill" Charles Fort, "We Did Not Fear the Father" Frank X. Gaspar, "Seven Roses" Elton Glaser, "And in the Afternoons I Botanized" Ray Gonzalez, "For the Other World" Jennifer Grotz, "The Last Living Castrato" Thom Gunn, "The Dump" Mark Halliday, "Before" Barbara Hamby, "Ode to the Lost Luggage Warehouse at the Rome Airport" Forrest Hamer, "Goldsboro Narratives" Brenda Hillman, "Air for Mercury" Marsha Janson, "Considering the Demise of Everything" Mark Jarman, "Epistle" Patricia Spears Jones, "Ghosts" Rodney Jones, "Plea for Forgiveness" Donald Justice, "Ralph: A Love Story" Olena Kalytiak Davis, "Six Apologies, Lord" David Kirby, "At the Grave of Harold Goldstein" Carolyn Kizer, "The Oration" Lynne Knight, "The Muse of the Actual" Yusef Komunyakaa, "The Goddess of Quotas Laments" Thomas Lux, "Henry Clay's Mouth" Lynne McMahon, "We Take Our Children to Ireland" W. S. Merwin, "The Hours of Darkness" Susan Mitchell, "Lost Parrot" Jean Nordhaus, "Aunt Lily and Frederick the Great" Mary Oliver, "Work" Michael Palmer, "I Do Not" Paul Perry, "Paris" Carl Phillips, "'All art...'" Robert Pinsky, "Samurai Song" Donald Platt, "History & Bikinis" Stanley Plumly, "Kunitz Tending Roses" Lawrence Raab, "Permanence" Thomas Rabbitt, "The Beach at Falmouth Heights, Summer, 1952" Mary Jo Salter, "Au Pair" Rebecca Seiferle, "Welcome to Ithaca" Brenda Shaughnessy, "Postfeminism" Laurie Sheck, "from Black Series" Reginald Shepherd, "Semantics at Four P.M." Richard Siken, "The Dislocated Room" Cathy Song, "Mother of Us All" Gary Soto, "Chit-Chat with the Junior League Women" Gabriel Spera, "In a Field Outside the Town" A. E. Stallings, "Asphodel" Susan Stewart, "Wings" Adrienne Su, "The English Canon" Pamela Sutton, "There Is a Lake of Ice on the Moon" Dorothea Tanning, "No Palms" Natasha Trethewey, "Limen" Quincy Troupe, "Song" Reetika Vazirani, "Rahim Multani" Paul Violi, "As I Was Telling David and Alexandra Kelley" Derek Walcott, "Pissarro at Dusk" Richard Wilbur, "Fabrications" Susan Wood, "Analysis of the Rose as Sentimental Despair" John You, "Borrowed Love Poems" Dean Young, "The Infirmament" Contributors' Notes and Comments Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published Acknowledgments The Best American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Volume

2001 ISBN 9780743203838

Description

The annual publication of "The Best American Poetry" is an eagerly awaited event among poetry fans across the country. This year's volume in the critically acclaimed series presents American poetry in all its dazzling variety at a moment of extraordinary richness and originality.Guest editor Robert Hass, a former Poet Laureate and a central figure in the poetry world, brings his passionate intelligence to "The Best American Poetry 2001." In his engaging introduction, Hass writes that after sifting through dozens of literary magazines, he "found that there were large numbers of poems that gave me pleasure, seemed to have inventive force, or intellectual passion or surprise." The works he selected are diverse in every way and have only their excellence in common. Ranging from the traditional to the innovative, the book features important new poems from Anne Carson, Robert Creeley, Michael Palmer, Robert Pinsky, and Adrienne Rich; rare posthumous works by Elizabeth Bishop and James Schuyler; and poems by marvelous newcomers like Amy England, Olena Kalytiak Davis, and Rachel Zucker. With comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's always entertaining foreword assessing the current state of the art, "The Best American Poetry 2001" is a book every reader of poetry will want to have.
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2002 ISBN 9780743203852

Description

Since its inception in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has achieved brand-name status in the literary world as the preeminent showcase of each year's most important contributions to American poetry. Arriving at a time when, as series editor David Lehman writes in his foreword, the hunger for poetry and the need for elegy is great, this year's volume demonstrates poetry's astonishing vitality, its ability to move and inspire us in a way no other medium can. As do the previous volumes in this esteemed series, The Best American Poetry 2002 spotlights the work of today's most innovative and talented poets. The pleasure of the poems selected here, editor Robert Creeley explains in his introduction, is that they caught my fancy, some almost outrageously, some by their quiet, nearly diffident manner, some by unexpected turns of thought or insight, others by a confident authority and intent. Reflecting Creeley's standing as a figure revered across the wide spectrum of American poetry, this exceptional anthology features a diverse mix of established masters such as Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, and Charles Wright; rising stars like Anne Carson, Carl Phillips, and Rae Armantrout; and the leading lights of a younger generation, such as Anselm Berrigan, Jenny Boully, and Maggie Nelson. With comments from the poets elucidating their work, a thought-provoking introduction from Creeley, and Lehman's always popular foreword assessing the current state of poetry, The Best American Poetry 2002 will prove as irresistible to new readers as it is indispensable for poetry fans everywhere.
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2002 : pbk ISBN 9780743203869

Description

Since its inception in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has achieved brand-name status in the literary world as the preeminent showcase of each year's most important contributions to American poetry. This year's exceptional volume, edited by Robert Creeley, a figure revered across teh wide spectrum of American poetry, features a diverse mix of established masters, rising stars and the leading lights of a younger generation. The pleasure of the poems selected here, Creeley explains in his introduction, is "that they caught my fancy, some almost outrageously, some by their quiet, nearly diffident manner, some by unexpected turns of thought or insight, others by a confident authority and intent." With comments from the poets elucidating their work, a thought-provoking introduction from Creeley, and Lehman's always popular foreword assessing the current state of poetry, The Best American Poetry 2002 will prove as irresistible to new readers as it is indispensable for poetry fans everywhere.

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword by David Lehman Introduction by Robert Creeley Rae Armantrout, "Up to Speed" John Ashbery, "The Pearl Fishers" Amiri Baraka, "The Golgotha Local" Charles Bernstein, "122" Anselm Berrigan, from Zero Star Hotel Frank Bidart, "Injunction" Jenny Boully, "The Body" T. Alan Broughton, "Ballad of the Comely Woman" Michael Burkard, "What I Threw into the Grave" Anne Carson, "Opposed Glimpse of Alice James, Garth James, Henry James, Robertson James and William James" Elizabeth Biller Chapman, "On the Screened Porch" Tom Clark, "Lullaby for Cuckoo" Peter Cooley, "Corpus Delicti" Clark Coolidge, "Traced Red Dot" Ruth Danon, "Long after (Mallarme)," Diane di Prima, "Midsummer" Theodore Enslin, "Moon Cornering" Elaine Equi, "O Patriarchy" Clayton Eshleman, "Animals out of the Snow" Norman Finkelstein, "Drones and Chants" Jeffrey Franklin, "To a Student Who Reads 'The Second Coming' as Sexual Autobiography" Benjamin Friedlander, "Independence Day" Gene Frumkin, "Surreal Love Life" Forrest Gander, "Carried Across" Peter Gizzi, "Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil" Louise Gluck, "Reunion" Albert Goldbarth, "The Gold Star" Donald Hall, "Affirmation" Michael S. Harper, "TCAT serenade: 4 4 98 (New Haven)" Everett Hoagland, "you: should be shoo be" Fanny Howe, "9-11-01" Ronald Johnson, "Poem" ("across dark stream") Maxine Kumin, "Flying" Bill Kushner, "Great" Joseph Lease, "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" Timothy Liu, "Felix Culpa" Nathaniel Mackey, "On Antiphon Island" Jackson Mac Low, "And Even You Elephants? (Stein 139/Titles 35)" Steve Malmude, "Perfect Front Door" Sarah Manguso, "Address to Winnie in Paris" Harry Mathews, "Butter & Eggs" Duncan McNaughton, "The quarry (1-13)" W. S. Merwin, "To My Father's Houses" Philip Metres, "Ashberries: Letters" Mong-Lan, "Trail" Jennifer Moxley, "Behind the Orbits" Eileen Myles, "Sympathy" Maggie Nelson, "Sunday Night" Charles North, "Sonnet" Alice Notley, "Haunt" D. Nurkse, "Snapshot from Niagara" Sharon Olds, "Frontis Nulla Fides" George Oppen, "Twenty-six Fragments" Jena Osman, "Starred Together" Carl Phillips, "Fretwork" Pam Rehm, "'A roof is no guarantee...'" Adrienne Rich, "Ends of the Earth" Corinne Robins, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" Elizabeth Robinson, "Tenets of Roots and Trouble" Ira Sadoff, "Self-Portrait with Critic" Hugh Seidman, "I Do Not Know Myself" Reginald Shepherd, "You Also, Nightingale" Ron Silliman, "For Larry Eigner, Silent" Dale Smith, "Poem after Haniel Long" Gustaf Sobin, "In Way of Introduction" Juliana Spahr, "Some of We and the Land That Was Never Ours" John Taggart, "Call" Sam Truitt, from Raton Rex, Part I Jean Valentine, "Do flies remember us" Lewis Warsh, "Eye Contact" Claire Nicolas White, "Return to Saint Odilienberg, Easter 2000" Nathan Whiting, "In Charge" Dara Wier, "Illumined with the Light of Fitfully Burning Censers" Charles Wright, "Nostalgia II" John Yau, "A Sheath of Pleasant Voices" Contributors' Notes and Comments Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published Acknowledgments
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2003 : pbk ISBN 9780743203883

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"Poetry encourages us to have dialogue through the observed, the felt, and the imaginary," writes editor Yusef Komunyakaa in his thought-provoking introduction to The Best American Poetry 2003. As a black child of the American South and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, Komunyakaa brings his singular vision to this outstanding volume. Included here is a diverse mix of senior masters, crowd-pleasing bards, rising stars, and the fresh voices of an emerging generation. With comments from the poets elucidating their work and series editor David Lehman's eloquent foreword assessing the state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2003 is a must-have for readers of contemporary poetry. Jonathan Aaron Beth Anderson Nin Andrews Wendell Berry Frank Bidart Diann Blakely Bruce Bond Catherine Bowman Rosemary Catacalos Joshua Clover Billy Collins Michael S. Collins Carl Dennis Susan Dickman Rita Dove Stephen Dunn Stuart Dybek Charles Fort James Galvin Amy Gerstler Louise Gluck Michael Goldman Ray Gonzalez Linda Gregg Mark Halliday Michael S. Harper Matthea Harvey George Higgins Edward Hirsch Tony Hoagland Richard Howard Rodney Jones Joy Katz Brigit Pegeen Kelly Galway Kinnell Carolyn Kizer Jennifer L. Knox Kenneth Koch John Koethe Ted Kooser Philip Levine J. D. McClatchy W. S. Merwin Heather Moss Stanley Moss Paul Muldoon Peggy Munson Marilyn Nelson Daniel Nester Naomi Shihab Nye Ishle Yi Park Robert Pinsky Kevin Prufer Ed Roberson Vijay Seshadri Alan Shapiro Myra Shapiro Bruce Smith Charlie Smith Maura Stanton Ruth Stone James Tate William Tremblay Natasha Trethewey David Wagoner Ronald Wallace Lewis Warsh Susan Wheeler Richard Wilbur C. K. Williams Terence Winch David Wojahn Robert Wrigley Anna Ziegler Ahmos Zu-Bolton II

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword by David Lehman Introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa Jonathan Aaron, "The End of Out of the Past " Beth Anderson, from "A Locked Room" Nin Andrews, "Dedicated to the One I Love" Wendell Berry, "Some Further Words" Frank Bidart, "Curse" Diann Blakely, "Rambling on My Mind" Bruce Bond, "Art Tatum" Catherine Bowman, from "1000 Lines" Rosemary Catacalos, "Perfect Attendance: Short Subjects Made from the Staring Photos of Strangers" Joshua Clover, "Aeon Flux: June" Billy Collins, "Litany" Michael S. Collins, "Six Sketches: When a Soul Breaks" Carl Dennis, "World History" Susan Dickman, "Skin" Rita Dove, "Fox Trot Fridays" Stephen Dunn, "Open Door Blues" Stuart Dybek, "Journal" Charles Fort, "The Vagrant Hours" James Galvin, "Ponderosa" Amy Gerstler, "An Offer Received in This Morning's Mail:" Louise Gluck, "Landscape" Michael Goldman, "Report on Human Beings" Ray Gonzalez, "Max Jacob's Shoes" Linda Gregg, "Beauty" Mark Halliday, "The Opaque" Michael S. Harper, "Rhythmic Arrangements (on prosody)" Matthea Harvey, "Sad Little Breathing Machine" George Higgins, "Villanelle" Edward Hirsch, "The Desire Manuscripts" Tony Hoagland, "Summer Night" Richard Howard, "Success" Rodney Jones, "Ten Sighs from a Sabbatical" Joy Katz, "Some Rain" Brigit Pegeen Kelly, "The Dragon" Galway Kinnell, "When the Towers Fell" Carolyn Kizer, "After Horace" Jennifer L. Knox, "Love Blooms at Chimsbury After the War" Kenneth Koch, "Proverb" John Koethe, "Y2K (1933)" Ted Kooser, "In the Hall of Bones" Philip Levine, "The Music of Time" J. D. McClatchy, "Jihad" W. S. Merwin, "To Zbigniew Herbert's Bicycle" Heather Moss, "Dear Alter Ego" Stanley Moss, "A History of Color" Paul Muldoon, "The Loaf" Peggy Munson, "Four Deaths That Happened Daily" Marilyn Nelson, "Asparagus" Daniel Nester, "Poem for the Novelist Whom I Forced to Write a Poem" Naomi Shihab Nye, "What Happened to Everybody" Ishle Yi Park, "Queen Min Bi" Robert Pinsky, "Anniversary" Kevin Prufer, "What the Paymaster Said" Ed Roberson, "Sequoia sempervirens" Vijay Seshadri, "The Disappearances" Alan Shapiro, "Sleet" Myra Shapiro, "For Nazim Hikmet in the Old Prison, Now a Four Seasons Hotel" Bruce Smith, "Song with a Child's Pacifier in It" Charlie Smith, "There's Trouble Everywhere" Maura Stanton, "Translating" Ruth Stone, "Lines" James Tate, "The Restaurant Business" William Tremblay, "The Lost Boy" Natasha Trethewey, "After Your Death" David Wagoner, "On Being Asked to Discuss Poetic Theory" Ronald Wallace, "In a Rut" Lewis Warsh, "Premonition" Susan Wheeler, "In Sky" Richard Wilbur, "Man Running" C. K. Williams, "The World" Terence Winch, "My Work" David Wojahn, "Scrabble with Matthews" Robert Wrigley, "Clemency" Anna Ziegler, "After the Opening, 1932" Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, "Reading the Bones: a Blackjack Moses nightmare" Contributors' Notes and Comments Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published Acknowledgments
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2006 ISBN 9780743229678

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"So welcome, readers, to a plurality of poets, a cornucopia of tropes, and a range of interests." -- From Billy Collins's introduction The Best American Poetry series offers a distinguished poet's selection of poems published in the course of a year. The guest editor for 2006 is Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, who has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in an array of styles and forms. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry -- from Laura Cronk's marvelous "Sestina for the Newly Married" to the elegant limericks of R. S. Gwynn and from Reb Livingston on butter to Mark Halliday's "Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women." In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he chose seventy-five poems from among the thousands he considered. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's thought-provoking foreword, The Best American Poetry 2006 is a brilliant addition to a series that links the most noteworthy verse and prose poems of our time to a readership as discerning as it is devoted to the art of poetry.
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2004 ISBN 9780743257374

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The Best American Poetry 2004 celebrates the vitality and richness of poetry in the United States and Canada today. In her provocative introduction, guest editor Lyn Hejinian, herself among the most acclaimed and innovative contemporary writers, expresses the need for this anthology. "Meaning in poetry," she writes, "is created by the linking together of poems to form the large, ancient, and ever new human undertaking of thinking together about the things that matter to us." Through her selections, Hejinian has created an essential nexus -- a meeting place for readers to encounter and commune with an extraordinary range of poets. She has brought together renowned figures such as John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Billy Collins as well as many new and unheralded voices from whom we're going to be hearing a lot more in the future.With illuminating comments from the poets on their work, 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.
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2005 ISBN 9780743257381

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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.
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2005 : pbk ISBN 9780743257589

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This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the state of the art 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. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's perspicacious foreword, The Best American Poetry 2005 is indispensable for every poetry enthusiast.
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2006 : pbk ISBN 9780743257596

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Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in a range of styles and forms, for The Best American Poetry 2006. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry. In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he chose seventy-five poems from among the thousands he considered. With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's thought-provoking foreword, The Best American Poetry 2006 is a brilliant addition to a series that links the most noteworthy verse and prose poems of our time to a readership as discerning as it is devoted to the art of poetry.
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2007 ISBN 9780743299725

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The twentieth edition of The Best American poetry series celebrates the rich and fertile landscape of American poetry. Renowned poet Heather McHugh loves words and the unexpected places they take you; her own poetry elevates wordplay to a species of metaphysical wit. For this year's anthology McHugh has culled a spectacular group of poems reflecting her passion for language, her acumen, and her vivacious humor. From the thousands of poems published or posted in one year, McHugh has chosen seventy-five that fully engage the reader while illustrating the formal and tonal diversity of American poetry. With new work by established poets such as Louise Gluck, Robert Hass, and Richard Wilbur, The Best American Poetry 2007 also features such younger talents as Ben Lerner, Meghan O'Rourke, Brian Turner, and Matthea Harvey. Graced with McHugh's fascinating introduction, the anthology includes the ever-popular notes and comments section in which the contributors write about their work. Series editor David Lehman's engaging foreword limns the necessity of poetry. The Best American Poetry 2007 is an exciting addition to a series committed to covering the American poetry scene and delivering great poems to a broad audience.
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2007 : pbk ISBN 9780743299732

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Celebrated poet McHugh and renowned editor Lehman present the 20th edition of the popular and comprehensive Best American Poetry series.
Volume

2008 ISBN 9780743299749

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The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles Wright. Known for his meditative and beautiful observations of landscape, change, and time,Wright brings his particular sensibility to this year's anthology, which contains an ecumenical slant that is unprecedented for the series. He has gathered an astonishing selection of work that includes new poems by Carolyn Forche, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Frank Bidart, Frederick Seidel, Patti Smith, and Kevin Young and showcases a dazzling array of rising stars like Joshua Beckman, Erica Dawson, and Alex Lemon. With captivating and revelatory notes from the poets on their works and sage and erudite introductory essays by Wright and series editor David Lehman, The Best American Poetry 2008 will be read, discussed, debated, and prized for years to come.
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2008 : pbk ISBN 9780743299756

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The "Best American Poetry" series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles Wright. Known for his meditative and beautiful observations of landscape, change, and time, Wright brings his particular sensibility to this year's anthology, which contains an ecumenical slant that is unprecedented for the series. He has gathered an astonishing selection of work that includes new poems by Carolyn Forche, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Frank Bidart, Frederick Seidel, Patti Smith, and Kevin Young and showcases a dazzling array of rising stars like Joshua Beckman, Erica Dawson, and Alex Lemon. With captivating and revelatory notes from the poets on their works and sage and erudite introductory essays by Wright and series editor David Lehman, "The Best American Poetry 2008" will be read, discussed, debated, and prized for years to come.
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2009 : pbk ISBN 9780743299770

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Award-winning poet David Wagoner and renowned editor David Lehman present the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry-"a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Eagerly anticipated by scholars, students, readers, and poets alike, Scribner's Best American Poetry series has achieved brand-name status in the literary world, serving as a yearly guide to who's who in American poetry. Known for his marvelous narrative skill and humane wit, David Wagoner is one of the few poets of his generation to win the universal admiration of his peers. Working in conjunction with series editor David Lehman, Wagoner brings his refreshing eye to this year's anthology. With new work by established poets, such as Billy Collins, Denise Duhamel, Mark Doty, and Bob Hicok, The Best American Poetry 2009 also features some of tomorrow's leading luminaries. Readers of all ages and backgrounds will treasure this illuminating collection of modern American verse. With its high-profile editorship and its generous embrace of American poetry in all its exuberant variety, the Best American Poetry series continues to be, as Robert Pinsky says, "as good a comprehensive overview of contemporary poetry as there can be."
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2011 : pbk ISBN 9781439181492

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The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.
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2013 : pbk ISBN 9781476708133

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Edited this year by beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns. Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: "an essential purchase" (The Washington Post). This year, guest editor Denise Duhamel brings her wit and enthusiasm and her commitment to poetry in all its wide variety to bear on her choices for The Best American Poetry 2013. These acts of imagination--from known stars and exciting newcomers--testify to the vitality of an art form that continues to endure and flourish, defying dour predictions of its demise, in the digital age. This edition of the most important poetry anthology in the United States opens with David Lehman's incisive "state of the art" essay and Denise Duhamel's engagingly candid discussion of the seventy-five poems that made her final cut.
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2018 : [hardback] ISBN 9781501127793

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The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry-"a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune)-collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia. The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry, served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently sits as the Poet Laureate of California, but he is also a graduate of Stanford Business School and was once a Vice President at General Foods. He has studied opera and is a published librettist, in addition to his prolific work in critical essay writing and editing literary anthologies. Having lived several lives, Gioia brings an insightful, varied, eclectic eye to this year's Best American Poetry. With his classic essay "Can Poetry Matter?", originally run in The Atlantic in 1991, Gioia considered whether there is a place for poetry to be a part of modern American mainstream culture. Decades later, the debate continues, but Best American Poetry 2018 stands as evidence that poetry is very much present, relevant, and finding new readers.
Volume

2018 : pbk ISBN 9781501127809

Description

The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry-"a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune)-collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia. The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry, served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently sits as the Poet Laureate of California, but he is also a graduate of Stanford Business School and was once a Vice President at General Foods. He has studied opera and is a published librettist, in addition to his prolific work in critical essay writing and editing literary anthologies. Having lived several lives, Gioia brings an insightful, varied, eclectic eye to this year's Best American Poetry. With his classic essay "Can Poetry Matter?", originally run in The Atlantic in 1991, Gioia considered whether there is a place for poetry to be a part of modern American mainstream culture. Decades later, the debate continues, but Best American Poetry 2018 stands as evidence that poetry is very much present, relevant, and finding new readers.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA06969682
  • ISBN
    • 0020441819
    • 0020441827
    • 0684191873
    • 0020327854
    • 0020698445
    • 0684195011
    • 0020698461
    • 0684801515
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    • 0743203852
    • 0743203860
    • 0743203887
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    • 0743229673
    • 9780743257596
    • 9780743299725
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    • 9780743299749
    • 9780743299756
    • 9780743299763
    • 9780743299770
    • 9781439181478
    • 9781439181454
    • 9781439181508
    • 9781439181492
    • 9781439181539
    • 9781439181522
    • 9781476708027
    • 9781476708133
    • 9781476708157
    • 9781476708195
    • 9781501127557
    • 9781501127564
    • 9781501127632
    • 9781501127793
    • 9781501127809
    • 9781982106560
    • 9781982106577
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    v.
  • Size
    21-23 cm
  • Subject Headings
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