{"product_id":"the-best-american-poetry-2024-9781982186807","title":"The Best American Poetry 2024","description":"\u003cb\u003eRenowned poet Mary Jo Salter, whose command of verse forms and high intelligence is universally acknowledged, selects the poems for the 2024 edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Best 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\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e series has been \"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world\" (Academy of American Poets) since 1988. Each volume presents a curated selection of the year's most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering unique insight into their work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, guest editor Mary Jo Salter, whose own poems display a sublime wit \"driven by a compulsion to confront the inexplicable\" (James Longenbach), has picked seventy-five poems that capture the dynamism of American poetry today. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that assess the current state of American poetry, and this year's edition is certain to capture the attention of both \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e loyalists and newcomers to the most important poetry anthology of our time.\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\u003eMary Jo Salter is Professor Emerita in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she taught from 2007 to 2022. She is the author of nine collections of poetry, all published by Knopf, including most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Surveyors\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZoom Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e. Former poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003e coeditor of three editions of \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1996, 2005, and 2018), and editor of Amy Clampitt's selected and collected poems, Salter is also an essayist, a lyricist, and a children's book author. She lives in Baltimore.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50895336603922,"sku":"9781982186807","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9000c48-c0bf-4eec-b499-e2692fd7dd6b.jpg?v=1738270403","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-best-american-poetry-2024-9781982186807","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}