The Best American Poetry 2002 [Paperback]

Since its inception in 1988,The Best American Poetryseries has achieved brand-name status in the literary world as the preeminent showcase of each year's most important contributions to American poetry.This year's exceptional volume, edited by Robert Creeley, a figure revered across teh wide spectrum of American poetry, features a diverse mix of established masters, rising stars and the leading lights of a younger generation. The pleasure of the poems selected here, Creeley explains in his introduction, is that they caught my fancy, some almost outrageously, some by their quiet, nearly diffident manner, some by unexpected turns of thought or insight, others by a confident authority and intent. With comments from the poets elucidating their work, a thought-provoking introduction from Creeley, and Lehman's always popular foreword assessing the current state of poetry,The Best American Poetry 2002will prove as irresistible to new readers as it is indispensable for poetry fans everywhere.David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include The Morning Line, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror.He has written such nonfiction books asSigns of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man.He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.Contents

Foreword by David Lehman

Introduction by Robert Creeley

Rae Armantrout, Up to Speed

John Ashbery, The Pearl Fishers

Amiri Baraka, The Golgotha Local

Charles Bernstein, 122

Anselm Berrigan,from Zero Star Hotel

Frank Bidart, Injunction

Jenny Boully, The Body

T. Alan Broughton, Ballad of the Comely Woman

Michael Burkard, What I Threw into the Grave

Anne Carson, Opposed Glimpse l£é