The Best American Poetry 2007

The Best American Poetry 2007

"The Best American Poetry 2007", a volume in "The Best American Poetry series", was edited by poet Heather McHugh, guest editor, who made the final selections, and David Lehman, the general editor for the series.

This book is the 20th volume in the most popular annual poetry anthology in the United States. Along with popular poets who have often appeared in previous editions, such as Billy Collins, Louise Gluck and Galway Kinnell, the book includes poets of "off-center traditions" such as Rae Armantrout and Christian Bok. Some of McHugh's selections from newer poets "tend toward the experimental," according to a review in "Publisher's Weekly", which pointed to poems from Ben Lerner and Danielle Pafunda as evidence of this. "Publisher's Weekly" called it a "riskier than usual volume." [Brief book review, "The Best American Poetry 2007" in "Publishers Weekly", July 30, 2007]

Richard Wakefield, reviewing the volume in "The Seattle Times", wrote that McHugh's selections were "as eccentric, sometimes as unabashedly goofy, as any in the series' two decades," but among them were a couple of dozen "very fine" poems. Wakefield in particular praised the poems by Carmine Starnino and Brad Leithauser, but called the Nicky Beer selection merely "clever prose arranged as questions and answers," and that poem's inclusion probably due to a common "weakness" among poets for wordplay. McHugh's essay introducing the volume was briefer than those of most of her predecessors, according to Wakefield, but was itself almost worth the cost of the book and contains some phrasing "as good as anything in the volume." [ [http://newsbank.com] Via Newsbank Web site: Wakefield, Richard, "'Bestov, schmestov,' but these poems are pretty darned good", book review, "The Seattle Times", September 23, 2007, accessed October 6, [2007]

In her review of the book for "The Tampa Tribune", Karen Haymon wrote that the poems by established poets generally outshone the work of the lesser-known writers, with plenty of poems "good and worth reading" by established names such as Billy Collins, Donald Hall, and Robert Hass. However, Haymon called a poem by Brian Turner, an Iraq veteran, a pleasant discovery. [ [http://newsbank.com] Via Newsbank Web site: Long, Karen Haymon, "Best Of The Best 2007 Poems / Come From Familiar Poets", "The Tampa Tribune, Tampa, Florida, September 16, 2007, accessed October 6, 2007]

Poets and poems included

Listed in alphabetical order by author's name:

Publishing information

The book is published by Scribner.

224 pages

Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-7432-9972-5

Paperback: ISBN 978-0-7432-9973-2

ISBN 0743299736

ee also

* 2007 in poetry

Notes

External links

* [http://bestamericanpoetry.com/archive/?id=21] Web page for the book


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