The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
Kay Ryan’s recently concluded two-year term as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poether awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, four Pushcart Prizes,...
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Kay Ryan’s recently concluded two-year term as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poether awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Ryan’s The Best of It: New and Selected Poems has garnered lavish praise. The two hundred poems in The Best of It offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poemsall of which are sure to appeal equally to longtime fans and general readers.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802145215 (0802145213)
Publish date: April 2nd 2011
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
t their best, Ryan's poems are gem-like, with astounding observations that give a brilliant little flash as you examine them: Oh! At worst, they are doggerel, sing-songly little nothings with no point beyond description (in the manner of giraffe...carafe, though that isn't actually one of her rhymes...
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