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The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest
edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of
Nightingale, proving that this is "a 'best' anthology that really
lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best
American Poetry anthology series has been "one of the mainstays of
the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each
volume in the series presents some of the year's most remarkable
poems and poets. Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah's
Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called "a poet of observation and
history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that
help us live in a world of contraries" by the Los Angeles Times. In
The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array
of work that speaks eloquently to the "contraries" of our present
moment in time.
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best
American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its
title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry
series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication
world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a
selection of the year's most brilliant, striking, and innovative
poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into
their work. For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew
Zapruder, whose own poems are "for everyone,
everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings" (NPR),
has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American
poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online
magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is
sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry
loyalists and newcomers to the series. The series and guest editors
contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current
state of American poetry.
In celebration of his one-hundredth birthday, a charming,
irresistibly readable, and handsomely packaged look back at the
life and times of the greatest entertainer in American history,
Frank Sinatra. Sinatra's Century is an irresistible collection of
one-hundred short reflections on the man, his music, and his
larger-than-life story, by a lifetime fan who also happens to be
one of the poetry world's most prominent voices. David Lehman uses
each of these short pieces to look back on a single facet of the
entertainer's story-from his childhood in Hoboken, to his emergence
as "The Voice" in the 1940s, to the wild professional (and
romantic) fluctuations that followed. Lehman offers new insights
and revisits familiar stories-Sinatra's dramatic love affairs with
some of the most beautiful stars in Hollywood, including Lauren
Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, and Ava Gardner; his fall from grace in the
late 1940s and resurrection during the "Capitol Years" of the
1950s; his bonds with the rest of the Rat Pack; and his long tenure
as the Chairman of the Board, viewed as the eminence grise of
popular music inspiring generations of artists, from Bobby Darin to
Bono to Bob Dylan. Brimming with Lehman's own lifelong affection
for Sinatra, the book includes lists of unforgettable performances;
engaging insight on what made Sinatra the model of American
machismo-and the epitome of romance; and clear-eyed assessments of
the foibles that impacted his life and work. Warm and enlightening,
Sinatra's Century is full-throated appreciation of Sinatra for
every fan.
There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry.
Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems
collected in "The Best American Erotic Poems" celebrate this
exuberant sensuality.
These poems range across the varied landscapes of love and sex and
desire -- from the intimate parts of the body to the end of an
affair, from passion to solitary self-pleasure. With candor and
imagination, they capture the delights and torments of sex and
sexuality, nudity, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy.
David Lehman, the distinguished editor of the celebrated "Best
American Poetry" series, has culled a witty, titillating, and
alluring collection that starts with Francis Scott Key, Emily
Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane, encompasses Frank O'Hara,
Anne Sexton, John Updike, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Kevin
Young, and Sharon Olds, and concludes with the rising stars of a
whole new generation of versifiers, including Sarah Manguso, Ravi
Shankar, and Brenda Shaughnessy.
In a section of the book that is sure to prompt discussion and
further reading, the living poets write about their favorite works
of erotic writing.
This book will delight, surprise, and inspire.
Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023
edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that
really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since its debut
in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the
mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American
Poets). Each volume presents some of the year’s most striking and
innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering
insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2023 guest
editor Elaine Equi, whose own work is “deft, delicate [and]
subversive” (August Kleinzahler), has made astute choices
representing contemporary poetry at its most dynamic. The result is
an exceptionally coherent vision of American poetry today.
Including valuable introductory essays contributed by the series
and guest editors, the 2023 volume is sure to capture the attention
of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series.
The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American
poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K.
Smith, providing renewed proof that this is "a 'best' anthology
that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988,
The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of
the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each
volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with
comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work.
The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K.
Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are,
Toi Derricotte's words, "beautiful and serene" in their surfaces
with an underlying "sense of an unknown vastness." In The Best
American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of
works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri
Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Gluck,
Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young.
A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry series, traces the form in all its dazzling variety from Poe and Emerson to Auden and Ashbery and on, right up to the present. In his brilliant and lucid introduction, Lehman defines the prose poem, summarizes its French heritage, and outlines its history in the United States. Included here are important works from masters of American literature, as well as poems by contemporary mainstays and emerging talents who demonstrate why the form has become an irresistible option for the practicing poet today. Great American Prose Poems is a marvelous collection, a must-have for anyone interested in the current state of the art.
This special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the "Best
American Poetry "series, which has become an institution. From its
inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored,
ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized.
Each volume consists of seventy-five poems chosen by a major
American poet acting as guest editor--from John Ashbery in 1988 to
Mark Doty in 2012, with stops along the way for such poets as
Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Louise Gluck, Adrienne Rich, Billy
Collins, Heather McHugh, and Kevin Young. Out of the 1,875 poems
that have appeared in "The Best American Poetry," here are 100 that
Robert Pinsky, the distinguished poet and man of letters, has
chosen for this milestone edition.
Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of "The Oxford Book of
American Poetry", brought completely up-to-date and dramatically
expanded by poet David Lehman. It is a rich, capacious volume,
featuring the work of more than 200 poets - almost three times as
many as the 1976 edition. With a succinct and often witty head note
introducing each author, it is certain to become the definitive
anthology of American poetry for our time. Lehman has gathered
together all the works one would expect to find in a landmark
collection of American poetry, from Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn
Ferry" to Stevens' "The Idea of Order at Key West", and from
Eliot's "The Waste Land" to Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex
Mirror". But, equally important, the editor has significantly
expanded the range of the anthology. The book includes not only
writers born since the previous edition, but also many fine poets
overlooked in earlier editions or little known in the past, but
highly deserving of attention. The anthology confers legitimacy on
the Objectivist poets; the so-called Proletariat poets of the
1930s; famous poets who fell into neglect or were the victims of
critical backlash (Edna St. Vincent Millay); poets whose true worth
has only become clear with the passing of time (Weldon Kees). Among
poets missing from Richard Ellmann's 1976 volume, but published
here are: W. H. Auden, Charles Bukowski, Donald Justice, Carolyn
Kizer, Kenneth Koch, Stanley Kunitz, Emma Lazarus, Mina Loy, Howard
Moss, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, James Schuyler, Elinor Wylie,
and Louis Zukosky. Many more women are represented: outstanding
poets, such as Josephine Jacobsen, Josephine Miles, May Swenson.
Numerous African-American poets receive their due, and unexpected
figures, such as the musicians Bob Dylan, Patti Smith and Robert
Johnson have a place in this important work. This stunning
collection redefines the great canon of American poetry from its
origins in the 17th century right up to the present. It is a
must-have anthology for anyone interested in American literature
and a book that is sure to be consulted, debated, and treasured for
years to come.
From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade; Nick and Nora Charles to Nero
Wolfe and Archie Goodwin; Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster,
and other femmes fatales-crime and crime solving in fiction and
film captivate us. Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's
ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder
mysteries? What do spy thrillers teach us, and what accounts for
the renewed popularity of morally ambiguous noirs? In The
Mysterious Romance of Murder, the poet and critic David Lehman
explores a wide variety of outstanding books and movies-some famous
(The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity), some known mainly to
aficionados-with style, wit, and passion. Lehman revisits the
smoke-filled jazz clubs from the classic noir films of the 1940s,
the iconic set pieces that defined Hitchcock's America, the
interwar intrigue of Eric Ambler's best fictions, and the intensity
of attraction between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Robert
Mitchum and Jane Greer, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. He also
considers the evocative elements of noir-cigarettes, cocktails,
wisecracks, and jazz standards-and offers five original noir poems
(including a pantoum inspired by the 1944 film Laura) and ironic
astrological profiles of Barbara Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich, and
Graham Greene. Written by a connoisseur with an uncanny feel for
the language and mood of mystery, espionage, and noir, The
Mysterious Romance of Murder will delight fans of the genre and
newcomers alike.
Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023
edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that
really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since its debut in
1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the
mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American
Poets). Each volume presents some of the year's most striking and
innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering
insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2023 guest
editor Elaine Equi, whose own work is "deft, delicate [and]
subversive" (August Kleinzahler), has made astute choices
representing contemporary poetry at its most dynamic. The result is
an exceptionally coherent vision of American poetry today.
Including valuable introductory essays contributed by the series
and guest editors, the 2023 volume is sure to capture the attention
of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series.
Much more than a word list, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
is a browsable source of inspiration as well as an authoritative
guide to selecting and using vocabulary. This essential guide for
writers provides real-life example sentences and a careful
selection of the most relevant synonyms, as well as new usage
notes, hints for choosing between similar words, a Word Finder
section organized by subject, and a comprehensive language guide.
The text is also peppered with thought-provoking reflections on
favorite (and not-so-favorite) words by noted contemporary writers,
including Joshua Ferris, Francine Prose, David Foster Wallace,
Zadie Smith, and Simon Winchester, many newly commissioned for this
edition.
The third edition revises and updates this innovative reference,
adding hundreds of new words, senses, and phrases to its more than
300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms. New features in this edition
include over 200 literary and humorous quotations highlighting
notable usages of words, and a revised graphical word toolkit
feature showing common word combinations based on evidence in the
Oxford Corpus. There is also a new introduction by noted language
commentator Ben Zimmer.
The Morning Line is David Lehman's most ambitious book to date,
combining wit, quotidian charm, and off-the-cuff spontaneity of
poems written with candid and moving meditations on life, love,
aging, disease, friendship, chance, and the possibility of
redemption in a godless age. Lehman is a poetic ventriloquist, and
he expertly imitates Catullus and Francois Villon in new poems and
offers his fresh translations of Mayakovsky's "Cloud in Trousers"
and Hoelderlin's "Half-Life." The element of joie de vivre in
Lehman's work is distinctive and unusual in contemporary poetry.
In One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman
applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a
frightening diagnosis and painful treatment for cancer. No matter
how debilitating the medical procedures, Lehman wrote every day
during chemotherapy and in the aftermath of radical surgery. With
characteristic riffs of wit and imagination, he transmutes the
details of his inner life into a prose narrative rich in incident
and mental travel. The reader journeys with him from the first
dreadful symptoms to the sunny days of recovery. This "fake
memoir," as he refers ironically to it, features one-hundred short
vignettes that tell a life story. One Hundred Autobiographies is
packed with insights and epiphanies that may prove as indispensable
to aspiring writers as Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. Set against
the backdrop of Manhattan, Lehman summons John Ashbery, Kenneth
Koch, Edward Said, and Lionel Trilling among his mentors.
Dostoyevsky shows up, as does Graham Greene. Keith Richards and
Patti Hansen put in an appearance, Edith Piaf sings, Clint Eastwood
saves the neighborhood, and the Rat Pack comes along for the ride.
These and other avatars of popular culture help Lehman to make
sense of his own mortality and life story. One Hundred
Autobiographies reveals a stunning portrait of a mind against the
ropes, facing its own extinction, surviving and enduring.
David Lehman, a poet of wit, ingenuity, and formidable skill, draws
upon his heritage as a grandson of Holocaust victims and offers a
stirring autobiographical collection of poems that is his most
ambitious work to date. It covers an expansive range of subjects --
from love, sex, and romance to repentance, humility, the meaning of
democracy, Existentialism, modern European history, military
intelligence, and the rituals associated with faith and prayer. The
title poem, "Yeshiva Boys," is a work in twelve parts that blends
the elements of espionage fiction, memory, history, and moral
philosophy. It reflects David's experience as a student in an
orthodox Yeshiva, and it, along with many other poems in the book,
explores what it means to be a Jew in America, what is gained and
lost in assimilating to secular culture, how to understand the
peculiar destiny of the Jewish people, and how to reconcile the
existence of God with the knowledge of evil. Beautiful,
provocative, and accessible, this is David Lehman's most inspired
collection.
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Parker Smathers; Contributions by David Lehman; Edited by Rosemary Ceravolo; Joseph Ceravolo
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Like an underground river, the astonishing poems of Joseph Ceravolo
have nurtured American poetry for fifty years, a presence deeply
felt but largely invisible. Collected Poems offers the first full
portrait of Ceravolo's aesthetic trajectory, bringing to light the
highly original voice that was operating at an increasing remove
from the currents of the time. From a poetics associated with Frank
O'Hara and John Ashbery to an ever more contemplative, deeply
visionary poetics similar in sensibility to Zen and Dante, William
Blake and St. John of the Cross, this collection shows how
Ceravolo's poetry takes on a direct, quiet lyricism: intensely
dedicated to the natural and spiritual life of the individual. As
Ron Silliman notes, Ceravolo's later work reveals him to be "one of
the most emotionally open, vulnerable and self-knowing poets of his
generation." Many new pieces, including the masterful long poem
"The Hellgate," are published here for the first time. This volume
is a landmark edition for American poetry, and includes an
introduction by David Lehman.
The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary
American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary
world.
"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.
Since its inception in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has achieved brand-name status in the literary world as the preeminent showcase of each year's most important contributions to American poetry. This year's exceptional volume, edited by Robert Creeley, a figure revered across teh wide spectrum of American poetry, features a diverse mix of established masters, rising stars and the leading lights of a younger generation. The pleasure of the poems selected here, Creeley explains in his introduction, is "that they caught my fancy, some almost outrageously, some by their quiet, nearly diffident manner, some by unexpected turns of thought or insight, others by a confident authority and intent." With comments from the poets elucidating their work, a thought-provoking introduction from Creeley, and Lehman's always popular foreword assessing the current state of poetry, The Best American Poetry 2002 will prove as irresistible to new readers as it is indispensable for poetry fans everywhere.
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