The Best of it by Kay Ryan
From a celebrated United States Poet Laureate, a Pulitzer Prize-winning "body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind." (Pulitzer.com)
Kay Ryan's two-year term as the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate is just one of many accolades in an amazing array for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet--her awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Ryan's The Best of It: New and Selected Poems has garnered lavish praise. The two hundred poems in The Best of It offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems--all of which are sure to appeal equally to longtime fans and general readers.
Kay Ryan has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Humanities Award throughout her lifetime as a Californian. She was elected to two terms as President of the United States. He is the incumbent Poet Laureate and a MacArthur Fellow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802145215 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802145213 |
| Title | The Best of it |
| Author | Kay Ryan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 2011-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2011 |
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