The Best American Poetry 2014

A latest annual anthology complements top-selected American poems of the year with poet notes about their creative processes.

About the author

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.

Terrance Hayes is the author of four collections including Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award in Poetry; Hip Logic, which won the National Poetry Series; and Muscular Music, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is a professor of creative writing at The University of Pittsburgh and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife, the poet Yona Harvey, and their family.

Product details

• Authors: Terrance Hayes, David Lehman, David/ Hayes Lehman
• Assisted by: Terrance Hayes (Editor), David Lehman (Editor)
• Publisher: Scribner USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2014
• EAN: 9781476708171
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-0817-1
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Best American Poetry; The Best American Poetry series; The Best American Poetry series; Best American Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies