The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues—guest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Pages: 240 pages
Publisher:Scribner
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1501127557
The Best American Poetry series is “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and memorable” (Robert Pinsky); a guiding light for the mood and shape of modern American poetry. Each year, this series presents essential American verse and the poets who create it. Truly the “best” American poetry has appeared in this venerable collection for over twenty-five years.
MULTIMEDIA
Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community, Edward Hirsch
Poet Edward Hirsch reads “Cotton Candy” as part of “Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community,” a project developed by the Academy of American Poets in partnership with EDSITEment, the educational website of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), during the NEH’s 50th anniversary year-long celebration.
UO Today with Edward Hirsch
Poet Edward Hirsch discusses his love of poetry and its place in culture. He talks about and reads from his latest volume Gabriel: A Poem. Hirsch gave a reading on May 12, 2016 as a guest of the UO Creative Writing Program.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
“A ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Each year, a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and memorable: and over the years, as good a comprehensive overview of contem-porary poetry as there can be.”
—Robert Pinsky
“A year’s worth of the very best!”
—People
“An essential purchase.”
—Washington Post
“The Best American Poetry series has become one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world. For each volume, a guest editor is enlisted to cull the collective output of large and small literary journals published that year to select 75 of the year’s ‘best’ poems. The guest editor is also asked to write an introduction to the collection, and the anthologies would be indispensable for these essays alone; combined with [David] Lehman’s’state-of-poetry’ forewords and the guest editors’ introductions, these anthologies seem to capture the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry.”
—Academy of American Poets
