Overview
A mid an "explosion in the interest of poetry nationwide" , The Best American Poetry 2000 delivers one of the finest volumes yet in this renowned series. Guest editor Rita Dove, a distinguished figure in the poetry world and the second African-American poet ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, brings all of her dynamism and well-honed acumen to bear on this project. Dove used a simple yet exacting method to make her selections: "The final criterion," she writes in her introduction, "was Emily Dickinson's famed description -- if I felt that the top of my head had been taken off, the poem was in." The result is a marvelous collection of consistently high-quality poems diverse in form, tone, style, stance, and subject matter. With comments from the poets themselves illuminating their poems and a foreword by series editor David Lehman, The Best American Poetry 2000 is this year's must-have book for all poetry lovers.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780743200332
- ISBN-10: 0743200330
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Publish Date: September 2000
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.62 pounds
- Page Count: 288
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