The Best American Poetry 2005

Lehman, David; Muldoon, Paul

ISBN 10: 0743257588 / ISBN 13: 9780743257589

Published by Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A., 2005

About this Item

This copy has a publisher error affecting the first 22 pages. All text is readable, but pages only bound at bottom third and at slant--the tops of the pages (NOT text) are clipped. Rest of the book is bound normally. Cover has edge wear, creases, scratches, rubbed/bent cover/page corners, rubbed spine, slightly chipped. Notes/underlining in text.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Best American Poetry 2005
• Publisher: Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743257588
• ISBN 13: 9780743257589
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

Guest edited by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, an annual anthology of contemporary American works includes pieces by such established writers as John Ashbery, Donald Justice, and Charles Wright as well as up-and-coming poets, in a volume that features a range of forms and includes writer commentary. Simultaneous. 20,000 first printing.

About the Author

David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include Poems in the Manner Of, New and Selected Poems, Yeshiva Boys, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Paul Muldoon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moy Sand and Gravel, Hay, and The Annals of Chile, among other noteworthy poetry collections. A former Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, he is currently Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.