The Best American Poetry 2005: Series Editor David Lehman

The Best American Poetry 2005: Series Editor David Lehman
by David Lehman (Editor), Paul Muldoon (Editor) – December 24, 2016

This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the last word in poetry today. Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected from a pool of several thousand published candidates the top seventy five poems of the year. "The all-consuming interests of American poetry are the all-consuming interests of poetry all over," writes Muldoon in his incisive introduction to the volume.
The Best American Poetry 2005 features a superb company of artists ranging from established masters of the craft, such as John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, and Charles Wright, to rising stars like Kay Ryan, Tony Hoagland, and Beth Ann Fennelly.

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Product Details
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (December 24, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 145164647X
ISBN-13: 978-1451646474
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
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Author This Book

David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include Poems in the Manner Of, New and Selected Poems, Yeshiva Boys, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. His most recent nonfiction book is Sinatra’s Century. He teaches at The New School and lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Paul Muldoon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moy Sand and Gravel, Hay, and The Annals of Chile, among other noteworthy poetry collections. A former Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, he is currently Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.