Best American Poetry 2016
Author(s): David Lehman
The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues guest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Best American Poetry series is a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and memorable (Robert Pinsky); a guiding light for the mood and shape of modern American poetry. Each year, this series presents essential American verse and the poets who create it. Truly the best American poetry has appeared in this venerable collection for over twenty-five years. A poet of decided brilliance since his 1981 debut collection, "For the Sleepwalkers," Edward Hirsch curates a thoughtful selection of poetry for 2016 and an Introduction to be savored. Jumpha Lahiri said of Hirsch, The trademarks of his poems are to be intimate but restrained, to be tender without being sentimental, to witness life without flinching, and above all, to isolate and preserve those details of our existence so often overlooked, so easily forgotten, so essential to our souls. Hirsch s choices for this collection reflect the soul of poetry in America. As ever, series editor David Lehman opens this year s edition with an insider s guide and a thoughtful contemplation of poetry today."
General Information
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- : Simon & Schuster
- : Scribner
- : 0.295
- : 05 September 2016
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : David Lehman
- : Paperback / softback
- : 811.608
- : 240
More About The Product
""The Best American Poetry" series has become one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world. For each volume, a guest editor is enlisted to cull the collective output of large and small literary journals published that year to select 75 of the year s 'best' poems. The guest editor is also asked to write an introduction to the collection, and the anthologies would be indispensable for these essays alone; combined with [David] Lehman s'state-of-poetry' forewords and the guest editors introductions, these anthologies seem to capture the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry. --Academy of American Poets"
