Best American Poetry 2005
Guest Editor, Paul Muldoon
(amazon)David Lehman (View Bio)
Hardcover: Scribner, 2005; Paperback: Scribner, 2005.
"A ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title. This BEST AMERICAN POETRY does exactly, wonderfully, what the anthology at its best can do: It gives a good sense of the strongest work now being done in several poetic modes, and it introduces us to some newer or youngish poets while featuring excellent work by more-established poets. You never feel, reading this volume, that poets have been chosen for their brand-name value or for particular stylistic or party affiliations. " — Chicago Tribune