{"product_id":"the-best-american-poetry-2022-9781982186685","title":"The Best American Poetry 2022","description":"\u003cb\u003eMatthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"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 selection of the year's most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2022 \u003c\/i\u003eguest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are \"for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings\" (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry.\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\u003eMatthew Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry, including\u003ci\u003e Come on All You Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year; \u003ci\u003eFather's Day\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWhy Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eStory of a Poem\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship. His poetry has been adapted and performed by Gabriel Kahane and Brooklyn Rider and Attacca Quartet at Carnegie Hall and San Francisco Performances and was the libretto for \u003ci\u003eVespers for a New Dark Age\u003c\/i\u003e, a piece by Missy Mazzoli commissioned for the Ecstatic Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. He was Guest Editor of \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry 2022\u003c\/i\u003e, and from 2016 to 2017, he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the weekly Poetry Column for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is editor at large at Wave Books, and teaches in the MFA in creative writing program at Saint Mary's College of California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50705834508562,"sku":"9781982186685","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25612a27-4683-4a14-836b-2daade8454dd.jpg?v=1734488644","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-best-american-poetry-2022-9781982186685","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}