The Best American Poetry 2009: Series Editor David Lehman (The Best American Poetry series)
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Book
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ISBN 10
0743299779
ISBN 13
9780743299770
Category
Poetry
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Publication Year
2009
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Pages
240
Subject
Poetry- American, Poetry- Anthologies
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Abstract
In the year that America — in the form of Obama's commissioning of a poem to mark his inauguration — honored poetry, poetry honors America. David Lehman, distinguished editor of Scribner's acclaimed series, BEST AMERICAN POETRY has tapped David Wagoner as guest editor for 2009, a poet who brings his keen sense of America to the anthology.
Although the poetry collected in this volume runs the gamut of themes from love to Freud to the beauty of the matriarchs in Genesis, the idea of America is a prominent unifying thread that spans throughout — as Derek Walcott interrogates the meaning of change in government in "A Sea-Change", only to be interrogated back by Vincent Stanley in "At the New York Public Library, I heard Derek Walcott dismiss the prose poem." -- from book's website.
Although the poetry collected in this volume runs the gamut of themes from love to Freud to the beauty of the matriarchs in Genesis, the idea of America is a prominent unifying thread that spans throughout — as Derek Walcott interrogates the meaning of change in government in "A Sea-Change", only to be interrogated back by Vincent Stanley in "At the New York Public Library, I heard Derek Walcott dismiss the prose poem." -- from book's website.
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