Description: "Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been 'one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world' (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year's most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. For [this volume in the series], guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are 'for everyone, everywhere ... democratic in [their] insights and feelings' (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic, chosen from print and online magazines--from the popular to the little-known" --
Brief description: 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 as Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.
Review Quotes: "Want to read more contemporary poetry but don't know where to begin? For expert curation and variety, you can't do better than 'The Best American Poetry 2022, ' edited this year by Matthew Zapruder...Zapruder strikes just the right note in his introduction...He finds encouragement-and motivation-in fine writing."-Ron Charles, the Washington Post