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The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.
Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry.
The 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. This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year's most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.
Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry.
The 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. This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year's most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.
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Reviews
"...one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world."
Academy of American Poets
"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."
The Washington Post
"...makes poems that rumble and rock."
poet Dorianne Laux
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