The Best American Poetry 2020

Name: The Best American Poetry 2020
Author: Victoria Chang
ISBN: 9781982106614

by Victoria Chang, Paisley Rekdal, David Lehman, Julia Alvarez, Brandon Amico, Rick Barot, Kaveh Bassiri, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Ryan Black, Bruce Bond, William Brewer, Lucie Brock-Broido, Ama Codjoe, Meg Day, Timothy Donnelly, Hazem Fahmy, Vievee Francis, Rachel Galvin, Julian Gewirtz, Regan Good, Christine Gosnay, Jorie Graham, Samuel Green, B.C. Griffith, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Jennifer Grotz, Camille Guthrie, Janice N. Harrington, Tony Hoagland, Kimberly Johnson, Troy Jollimore, Ilya Kaminsky, Douglas Kearney, Donika Kelly, Christopher Kempf, Steven Kleinman, Jennifer L. Knox, Yusef Komunyakaa, Shara Lessley, Steven Leyva, Cate Lycurgus, Khaled Mattawa, Jennifer Militello, John Murillo, Susan Leslie Moore, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Sharon Olds, Heather Christle, Matthew Olzmann, Paul Otremba, Cecily Parks, Carl Phillips, Stanley Plumly, Jana Prikryl, Kevin Prufer, Ariana Reines, Max Ritvo, Clare Rossini, Robyn Schiff, Brandon Som, Jon William Stout, Arthur Sze, James Tate, Craig Morgan Teicher, Lynne Thompson, Matthew Thorburn, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, Corey Van Landingham, Rosanna Warren, Robert Wrigley, Ryo Yamaguchi, John Yau, Emily Yong, Monica Youn, Matthew Zapruder

304 pages2020ScribnerISBN 9781982106614

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The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year’s most remarkable poems and poets. Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah’s Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called “a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries” by the Los Angeles Times. In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the “contraries” of our present moment in time.