{"product_id":"the-best-american-poetry-2019-9781982106577","title":"The Best American Poetry 2019","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 2019 edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e--\"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world\" (Academy of American Poets)--now guest edited by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMajor Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 1988, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003esaid of the 2017 edition, \"The poems...have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative about life today...While readers may question some of the selections--an annual sport with this series--most will find much that resonates, including the insightful author notes at the back of the anthology.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe state of the world has inspired many to write poetry, and to read it--to share all the rage, beauty, and every other thing under the sun in the way that only poetry can. Now the foremost anthology of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Major Jackson, the poet and editor who, \"makes poems that rumble and rock\" (poet Dorianne Laux). This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year's most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.\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\u003eMajor Jackson is the author of five books of poetry including the forthcoming collection \u003ci\u003eThe Absurd Man\u003c\/i\u003e (Norton: 2020), \u003ci\u003eRoll Deep\u003c\/i\u003e (Norton: 2015), \u003ci\u003eHolding Company\u003c\/i\u003e (Norton: 2010), \u003ci\u003eHoops\u003c\/i\u003e(Norton: 2006) and \u003ci\u003eLeaving Saturn\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Georgia: 2002), finalist of a National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. He is the editor of Library of America's \u003ci\u003eCountee Cullen: Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in \u003ci\u003eAgni\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Paris Review, Ploughshares, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand World Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e. Major Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard A. Dennis Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Harvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493345464594,"sku":"9781982106577","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a405f518-19dc-468e-9506-798b0e79b33a.jpg?v=1730644795","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-best-american-poetry-2019-9781982106577","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}