The Best American Poetry: 2005

Lehman, David [Series Editor]; Paul Muldoon [Guest Editor/Introduction]; John Ashbery, Stephen Dunn, Galway Kinnell, and D. Nurkse

ISBN 10: 0743257383 / ISBN 13: 9780743257381

Published by Scribner Poetry / Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005

About this Item

First printing of the first edition. Signed by David Lehman directly on the title page; additionally signed at their page of contribution by John Ashbery, Stephen Dunn, Galway Kinnell, and D. Nurkse. Light shallow crimping at spine ends, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Best American Poetry: 2005
• Publisher: Scribner Poetry / Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743257383
• ISBN 13: 9780743257381
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Leslie Goldman (Jacket design); Christie's Images
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • A Collection of Poetry
  • Signed First Editions
  • Modern First Editions

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.

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 eleven books of poetry include Playlist, Poems in the Manner Of, New and Selected Poems, When a Woman Loves a Man, and  The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is One Hundred Autobiographies  A Memoir. 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.