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The Best American Poetry 2019 by David Lehman
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.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.
Major Jackson is the author of four books of poetry including Roll Deep (2015: Norton), Holding Company (2010: Norton), Hoops (2006: Norton) and Leaving Saturn (2002: University of Georgia Press), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. A recipient of a fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has taught widely at the University of Massachusetts as the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence, Adelphi University, Baruch College as the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Columbia University, and New York University. Major Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold University Distinguished Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.
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ISBN 13 | 9781982106577 |
ISBN 10 | 1982106573 |
Title | The Best American Poetry 2019 |
Author | David Lehman |
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Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
Year published | 2019-09-10 |
Number of pages | 272 |
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