The Best American Poetry 2001
By Robert Hass (Editor); David Lehman (Editor); Billy Collins (Editor)
(Scribner Book Company, Paperback, 9780743203845, 288pp.)
Publication Date: August 2001
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Hardcover, Paperback
Categories: American - General, Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Description
"The Best American Poetry" series returns with a volume that is sure to dazzle seasoned fans and newcomers alike. Guest editor Robert Hass, a former Poet Laureate and a central figure in the poetry world, brings his passionate intelligence to "The Best American Poetry 2001." In his engaging introduction, Hass writes that after sifting through dozens of literary magazines, he "found that there were large numbers of poems that gave me pleasure, seemed to have inventive force, or intellectual passion or surprise." The works he selected are diverse in every way with only their excellence in common. With comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's always entertaining foreword assessing the current state of the art, "The Best American Poetry 2001" presents the richness and originality of this exciting moment in the history of American poetry.
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