{"product_id":"the-best-american-poetry-2021-9781982106638","title":"The Best American Poetry 2021","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is \"a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title\" (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been \"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world\" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2021\u003c\/i\u003e is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte's words, \"beautiful and serene\" in their surfaces with an underlying \"sense of an unknown vastness.\" In \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2021, \u003c\/i\u003eSmith has selected a distinguished array of works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young.\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\u003eTracy K. Smith, guest editor, served as United States Poet Laureate from 2017-2019 and is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eWade in the Water\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Life on Mars\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Light\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2015. Educated at Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford, she is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650391675154,"sku":"9781982106638","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3e3108b9-09ac-4209-9501-f08c2886536e.jpg?v=1733287616","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-best-american-poetry-2021-9781982106638","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}