The best of it new and selected poems
Kay Ryan is the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States. Here is the poet's own selection of more than two hundred poems, offering both longtime followers and new readers a stunning retrospective of her earlier work as well as a generous selection of powerful new poems.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] :
Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West,
c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Kay Ryan is the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States. Here is the poet's own selection of more than two hundred poems, offering both longtime followers and new readers a stunning retrospective of her earlier work as well as a generous selection of powerful new poems. |
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| Item Description: | More than 200 poems, selected by the poet. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 270 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2011. |
| ISBN: | 9780802119148 : 080211914X 9780802145215 (pbk.) 0802145213 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: | Her first collection, Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends, was privately published in 1983. Ryan found a commercial publisher for her second collection, Strangely Marked Metal, but her work went nearly unrecognized until the mid 1990s, when some of her poems were anthologized and the first reviews appeared in national journals. She received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2004, and published her sixth collection of poetry, The Niagara River. Ryan's other awards include the 2001 Maurice English Poetry Award, a fellowship in 2001 from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her poems have been included in three Pushcart Prize anthologies and have been selected four times for The Best American Poetry. Ryan's collection The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award. She was awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for this collection. Ryan was named the 16th Library of Congress Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry and served 2 terms from 2008 to 2010. She currently serves as one of Chancellors of The Academy of American Poets. (Bowker Author Biography) |
