{"product_id":"the-best-american-poetry-2000-9780743200332","title":"The Best American Poetry 2000","description":"A mid an \"explosion in the interest of poetry nationwide\" \u003ci\u003e(The New York Times), The Best American Poetry 2000\u003c\/i\u003e delivers one of the finest volumes yet in this renowned series. Guest editor Rita Dove, a distinguished figure in the poetry world and the second African-American poet ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, brings all of her dynamism and well-honed acumen to bear on this project. Dove used a simple yet exacting method to make her selections: \"The final criterion,\" she writes in her introduction, \"was Emily Dickinson's famed description -- if I felt that the top of my head had been taken off, the poem was in.\" The result is a marvelous collection of consistently high-quality poems diverse in form, tone, style, stance, and subject matter. With comments from the poets themselves illuminating their poems and a foreword by series editor David Lehman, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2000\u003c\/i\u003e is this year's must-have book for all poetry lovers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Lehman, the series editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, edited \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Book of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. His books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eThe Morning Line\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen a Woman Loves a Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mirror.\u003c\/i\u003e The most recent of his many nonfiction books is \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327723180306,"sku":"9780743200332","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62a222e8-7fb2-4519-ac66-9ad60562ce2c.jpg?v=1727719501","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-best-american-poetry-2000-9780743200332","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}