{"product_id":"best-american-poetry-2017-9781501127755","title":"Best American Poetry 2017","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBest American Poetry 2017 - Edited by Natasha Trethewey\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2017 presents the most notable poems of the year, curated by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. This annual anthology delivers what Robert Pinsky describes as \"a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEditor Credentials\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNatasha Trethewey brought unprecedented reach to the role of US Poet Laureate, as noted by Librarian of Congress James Billington, who recognized how she \"consistently and dramatically expanded the power\" of the position. Through public office hours, nationwide travel, and her innovative PBS NewsHour segment \"Where Poetry Lives,\" Trethewey reached millions of readers and viewers. Marilyn Nelson praises \"the wide scope of Trethewey's interests and her adept handling of form\" which have created \"an opus of classics both elegant and necessary.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's Inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 2017 edition features Trethewey's carefully selected poems accompanied by her introductory essay, highlighting what she considers \"elegant and necessary\" works that contribute to the national conversation about verse and its cultural role. The anthology serves as an authoritative guide to contemporary American poetry, revealing who's who and what's happening in the field each year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Series\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Best American Poetry series, edited by David Lehman, stands apart from typical anthologies. It functions as an essential annual publishing event that poetry readers, writers, and scholars anticipate. Trethewey's genius for exploring historical depths and personal experience to craft striking verse brings distinctive insight to this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His poetry collections include The Morning Line, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. His most recent nonfiction work is The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNatasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed the nineteenth United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard. She is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi and the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, where she also directs the Creative Writing Program. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Domestic Work, Bellocq's Ophelia, Native Guard, and Thrall. She is also the author of a book of creative nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681023955218,"sku":"9781501127755","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f3876a8b-48d3-4d21-9ffb-61caad89c58b.jpg?v=1733947776","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/best-american-poetry-2017-9781501127755","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}