David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engaging notes from the poets, Wagoner's superb introductory essay, series editor David Lehman's astute foreword about the current state of poetry and criticism, and cover art from the beloved poet John Ashbery, The Best American Poetry 2009 is a memorable and delightful addition to a series dedicated to showcasing the work of poets at their best.Poems in such forms as these have turned up in recent and current volumes of The Best American Poetry, as have, to be sure, sonnets, ... an anagram and to write an acrostic poem based on 4. aWhen a riddler, using the bold weapon of metaphor, forces us to contemplate an icicle as a plant, it is an imaginative coup; briefly, anbsp;...
Title | : | The Best American Poetry 2009 |
Author | : | David Wagoner, David Lehman |
Publisher | : | Simon and Schuster - 2009-09-22 |
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