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Author: Rita Dove
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 0143106430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-09-13
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1982186704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMatthew 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: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0547819226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2020-09-08
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 198210659X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-09-28
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1982106646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is “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 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 Glück, Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young.
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-09-20
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1439181519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.
Author: Ed Ochester
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2007-04-08
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0822978180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suarez, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others. Throughout its forty-year history, the Pitt Poetry Series has provided a voice for the diversity that is American poetry, representing poets from many backgrounds without allegiance to any one school or style. American Poetry Now is a true representation of contemporary American poetry. Ed Ochester, series editor for nearly thirty years, has assembled a quintessential selection-along with biographies and photos, an enlightening introduction, and a suggested list for further reading, all in a highly accessible format. American Poetry Now is a sweeping anthology that will delight poetry fans, students, teachers, and general readers alike.
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1476708193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects poems chosen by editor Sherman Alexie as the best of 2015, featuring poets such as Sarah Arvio, Chen Chen, Andrew Kozma, and Terence Winch.
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0195123735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.
Author: David Baker
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1610754972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.
