{"product_id":"9781501127793","title":"Best American Poetry 2018","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBest American Poetry 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): David Lehman, Dana Gioia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 2018 edition of the \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry, served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently sits as the Poet Laureate of California, but he is also a graduate of Stanford Business School and was once a Vice President at General Foods. He has studied opera and is a published librettist, in addition to his prolific work in critical essay writing and editing literary anthologies. Having lived several lives, Gioia brings an insightful, varied, eclectic eye to this year’s \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With his classic essay “Can Poetry Matter?”, originally run in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAtlantic \u003c\/i\u003ein 1991, Gioia considered whether there is a place for poetry to be a part of modern American mainstream culture. Decades later, the debate continues, but \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry 2018\u003c\/i\u003e stands as evidence that poetry is very much present, relevant, and finding new readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"Always excellent.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Each year, a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and memorable: and over the years, as good a comprehensive overview of contem-porary poetry as there can be.\"\u003cbr\u003e“A year’s worth of the very best!”\u003cbr\u003e\"An essential purchase.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bestamericanpoetry.com\/\"\u003e series\u003c\/a\u003e has become one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world. For each volume, a guest editor is enlisted to cull the collective output of large and small literary journals published that year to select 75 of the year’s 'best' poems. The guest editor is also asked to write an introduction to the collection, and the anthologies would be indispensable for these essays alone; combined with [David] Lehman’s'state-of-poetry' forewords and the guest editors’ introductions, these anthologies seem to capture the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501127793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40932196352206,"sku":"9781501127793","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_6cf49ca0-53f0-4c18-bf18-cd4e7f456070.jpg?v=1645733689","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501127793","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}