The Best American Poetry 2024 : The Best American Poetry series - David Lehman

The Best American Poetry 2024

By: David Lehman, Mary Jo Salter

Paperback | 3 September 2024

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Renowned poet Mary Jo Salter, whose command of verse forms and high intelligence is universally acknowledged, selects the poems for the 2024 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).

The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets) since 1988. Each volume presents a curated selection of the year’s most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering unique insight into their work.

Here, guest editor Mary Jo Salter, whose own poems display a sublime wit “driven by a compulsion to confront the inexplicable” (James Longenbach), has picked seventy-five poems that capture the dynamism of American poetry today. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that assess the current state of American poetry, and this year’s edition is certain to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the most important poetry anthology of our time.
Industry Reviews
"Every poem in this collection has been selected by an extraordinarily fine and thoughtful poet. In her introduction, [Mary Jo] Salter writes, 'I still find it almost impossible to come up with Universally Useful Criteria for evaluating a poem,' but reading the work she’s assembled here is a terrific way of broadening and understanding your own criteria."
—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

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