The Best American Poetry 2020

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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 years most remarkable poems and poets.

Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utahs 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.

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David Lehman, the series editor ofThe Best American Poetry, editedTheOxford Book of American Poetry. His eleven books of poetry includeThe Morning Line,Playlist,Poems in the Manner Of,New and Selected Poems,When a Woman Loves a Man,andThe Daily Mirror.The most recent of his many nonfiction books isThe Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.