Best American Poetry 2020

The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale.

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. He has written such nonfiction books as Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Summary

The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).

Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year’s most remarkable poems and poets.

Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah’s Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called “a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries” by the Los Angeles Times. In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the “contraries” of our present moment in time.

Product details

• Authors: David Lehman, David Rekdal Lehman, Paisley Rekdal, Rekdal Paisley
• Assisted by: Paisley Rekdal (Editor)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781982106607
• ISBN: 978-1-982106-60-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Best American Poetry series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, POETRY / General, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), United States of America, USA, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry anthologies (various poets)