The Best American Poetry 1997 - Hardcover

Tate, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684814544 ISBN 13: 9780684814544

Publisher: Scribner, 1997

Synopsis

An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry

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Review:

"The daily routine of our lives can be good and even wonderful, but there is still a hunger in us for the mystery of the deep waters, and poetry can fulfill that hunger." So writes James Tate, editor of the 1997 edition of Best American Poetry. The poems that follow his essay bear out the claim. Including work by Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Mark Strand, and other first-rate poets, the 1997 collection again delights the reader with the variety and quality of poetry now being written. Here is a taste, from Mark Strand's contribution, "Morning, Noon and Night": "Whatever the starcharts told us to watch for or the maps / Said we would find, nothing prepared us for what we discovered. / We toiled in the shadowless depths of noon, / While an alien wind slept in the branches, and dead leaves / Turned to dust in the streets." This series consistently produces collections that are essential reading for poetry lovers.

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. His most recent nonfiction book is Sinatra’s Century. He teaches at The New School and lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684814544
• ISBN 13: 9780684814544
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Lehman David