The best American poetry, 2016

Updated annually, and collected from electronic and print journals, an anthology showcases recent work from the best known and up-and-coming contemporary poets.

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Other Authors: Hirsch, Edward (Editor), Lehmann, David (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner Poetry, 2016.
Edition:First Scribner edition.
Series:Best American poetry.
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Summary:Updated annually, and collected from electronic and print journals, an anthology showcases recent work from the best known and up-and-coming contemporary poets.
Physical Description:xxiv, 211 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1501127551
9781501127557
9781501127564
150112756X
Author Notes:David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry , is also the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry . His eleven books of poetry include Playlist , Poems in the Manner Of , New and Selected Poems , When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is One Hundred Autobiographies A Memoir . He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote national bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry . He has published nine books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems , which brings together thirty-five years of work, and Gabriel: A Poem , a book-length elegy for his son that The New Yorker calls "a masterpiece of sorrow." He has also published five prose books about poetry. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City.