Best American Poetry 2013

Best American Poetry 2013

EnglishEbook
Lehman, David
Scribner
EAN: 9781476708140
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Beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel selects the poems for the 2013 edition of The Best American Poetry, ';a ';best' anthology that really lives up to its title' (Chicago Tribune).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 imaginationfrom known stars and exciting newcomerstestify 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. Reflecting the vibrant state of our country's contemporary poetry scene, The Best American Poetry 2013 includes such eminences as John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, James Tate, and Richard Wilbur, as well as the fast-rising hot poets Sherman Alexie, Nin Andrews, Anna Maria Hong, Timothy Donnelly, Mary Ruefle, and Major Jackson.
EAN 9781476708140
ISBN 1476708142
Binding Ebook
Publisher Scribner
Publication date September 10, 2013
Pages 240
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Lehman, David
Series The Best American Poetry series