Best American Poetry 2020
Guest Editor, Paisley Rekdal
(amazon)David Lehman (View Bio)
Hardcover: Scribner, 2020.
Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year’s most remarkable poems and poets.
The 2020 edition is guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale and Utah’s Poet Laureate. The Los Angeles Times called her “a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries.” In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the “contraries” of our present moment in time.