The Best American Poetry 2004
Series Editor David Lehman
$36.41
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2004
Summary
The Best American Poetry 2004 celebrates the vitality and richness of poetry in the United States and Canada today. Guest editor Lyn Hejinian, acclaimed for her own innovative writing, has chosen seventy-five important new poems and contributed a provocative introductory essay. Through her selections, Hejinian has created an essential nexus – a meeting place for readers to encounter an extraordinary range of poets. With illuminating comments from the writers, and series editor David Lehman’s insightful foreword evaluating the current state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2004 is an indispensable addition to a series that has established itself as the first word on what’s new and noteworthy in the poetry of our times.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743257572 |
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| ISBN-10: | 074325757X |
| Author: | Lyn Hejinian, David Lehman |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Best American Poetry (Paperback) |
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Critics Review
Robert Pinsky 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 contemporary poetry as there can be.
Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian is the author or coauthor of more than two dozen books of poetry, including The Fatalist and My Life. She recently received the sixty-sixth Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for distinguished poetic achievement at mid-career. She lives in Berkeley and teaches at the University of California.
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. He has written such nonfiction books as Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.
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