Description: The Best American Poetry 2024 by David Lehman, Mary Jo Salter Renowned poet Mary Jo Salter, whose command of verse forms and high intelligence is universally acknowledged, selects the poems for the 2024 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a best anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets) since 1988. Each volume presents a curated selection of the years most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering unique insight into their work. Here, guest editor Mary Jo Salter, whose own poems display a sublime wit "driven by a compulsion to confront the inexplicable" (James Longenbach), has picked seventy-five poems that capture the dynamism of American poetry today. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that assess the current state of American poetry, and this years edition is certain to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the most important poetry anthology of our time. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include The Morning Line, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.Mary Jo Salter is Professor Emerita in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she taught from 2007 to 2022. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, all published by Knopf, including most recently The Surveyors and Zoom Rooms. Former poetry editor of The New Republic, coeditor of three editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry (1996, 2005, and 2018), and editor of Amy Clampitts selected and collected poems, Salter is also an essayist, a lyricist, and a childrens book author. She lives in Baltimore. Details ISBN1982186801 Author Mary Jo Salter Publisher Simon & Schuster Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781982186807 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-09-03 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Audience General US Release Date 2024-09-03 AU Release Date 2024-09-17 Series The Best American Poetry series Alternative 9781982186791 Pages 240 DEWEY 811.608 Imprint Scribner We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161291220;
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