Best American Poetry 2008 Gets Early Buzz

This just in from Booklist:  Pulitzer Prize winner [Charles] Wright is on the hook as guest editor for the latest edition of this essential annual, and he asks, basically, what and who makes a "Best American Poet"? The poets he selected represent quality and diversity. Among the well-known contributors are Marvin Bell: "I awoke and was dead, so I decided to take my own life, and ended up / alive after my self-inflicted demise"; and his former colleague at Iowa, Jorie Graham: ". . . looking up, the sky makes you hear it, you know why we have come it / blues, you know the trouble at the heart, blue, blue . . ." Equally up to the task are newcomers Joshua Beckman and Erica Dawson, who writes, "The later it gets, the more the sky will grow / In a strange reversal. Immaterial." This is a fun, varied, and generous collection of poems by 75 poets at various stages in their writing lives, all of whom will inspire a wide spectrum of poetry lovers. — Mark Eleveld

Due in bookstores soon. You can pre-order here.

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[Didi]

I love the cover. Just love it.