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Informationen zum Autor David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include The Morning Line, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York. Klappentext Collects poems chosen by editor Denise Duhamel as the best of 2013, featuring 75 poets including Sherman Alexie, Daisy Fried, Elizabeth Hazen, and Noelle Kocot. Zusammenfassung Edited this year by beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel! the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns. Over the last twenty-five years! the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn! eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase” ( The Washington Post ). This year! guest editor Denise Duhamel brings her wit and enthusiasm and her commitment to poetry in all its wide variety to bear on her choices for The Best American Poetry 2013 . These acts of imagination—from known stars and exciting newcomers—testify to the vitality of an art form that continues to endure and flourish! defying dour predictions of its demise! in the digital age. This edition of the most important poetry anthology in the United States opens with David Lehman’s incisive “state of the art” essay and Denise Duhamel’s engagingly candid discussion of the seventy-five poems that made her final cut.
