Synopses & Reviews
Poetry phenomenon Kevin Young and renowned series editor David Lehman present the 2011 edition of the Best American Poetry
series—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” ( Chicago Tribune
). With its high-profile editorship, the Best American Poetry series continues to be, as Robert Pinsky says, “as good a comprehensive overview of contemporary poetry as there can be.”
Lucille Clifton praised Kevin Young’s “gift of storytelling and understanding of the music inherent in the oral tradition of language [which] re-creates for us an inner history that is compelling and authentic and American.” Young’s own highly original, vivid, bluesy sensibility informs the poems in the 2011 edition of The Best American Poetry . Representing the wealth, the breadth, and the tremendous energy of poetry in the United States today, this edition features poems from some of our country’s most beloved poets, including Carolyn Forche, Sherman Alexie, Billy Collins, and Richard Wilbur, and exciting poems from a constellation of rising stars: Terrance Hayes, Rae Armantrout, Natasha Trethewey, and Jennifer Knox among them.
Eagerly anticipated by scholars, students, readers, and poets alike, Scribner’s Best American Poetry series has achieved brand-name status in the literary world, and the 2011 volume will inspire a wide spectrum of poetry lovers everywhere.
Synopsis
The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.
Synopsis
The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.
About the Author
David Lehman, series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include New and Selected Poems, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. He teaches in the New School graduate writing program and lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.