The Best American Poetry

The 1999 edition of The Best American Poetry will exceed the expectations of the many thousands of readers who eagerly await the annual arrival of this truly memorable anthology (Chicago Tribune). Guest editor Robert Bly, an award-winning poet and translator -- famous, too, for his leadership role in the men's movement and his bestselling book, Iron John -- has made selections that present American poetry in all its dazzling originality, richness, and variety. The year's poems are striking in their vibrancy; they all display that essential energy that Bly calls heat, whether the heat of friendship, the heat of form, or the heat that results when a poet brings the soul up close to the thing he or she is contemplating. With comments from the poets illuminating their work, The Best American Poetry 1999 reflects the most exciting and memorable poetry being written at the end of the millennium.

Author: Robert Bly
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 09/01/1999
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.49w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780684860039

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/26/1999 pg. 84

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.