{"product_id":"the-best-american-poetry-2005-series-editor-david-lehman-9781451646474","title":"The Best American Poetry 2005: Series Editor David Lehman","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e series reflects the latest developments and represents the last word in poetry today.\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected -- from a pool of several thousand published candidates -- the top seventy-five poems of the year. \"The all-consuming interests of American poetry are the all-consuming interests of poetry all over,\" writes Muldoon in his incisive introduction to the volume. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2005\u003c\/i\u003e features a superb company of artists ranging from established masters of the craft, such as John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, and Charles Wright, to rising stars like Kay Ryan, Tony Hoagland, and Beth Ann Fennelly. \u003cbr\u003e With insightful comments from the poets elucidating their work, and series editor David Lehman's perspicacious foreword addressing the state of the art, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2005\u003c\/i\u003e is indispensable for every poetry enthusiast.\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Muldoon\u003c\/b\u003e is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMoy Sand and Gravel, Hay, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Annals of Chile, \u003c\/i\u003e among other noteworthy poetry collections. A former Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, he is currently Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50850426224914,"sku":"9781451646474","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_81c9eaab-e757-4f0b-8568-ecf7d6f7443d.jpg?v=1737411851","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-best-american-poetry-2005-series-editor-david-lehman-9781451646474","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}