{"product_id":"best-american-poetry-2000-2000-hardcover","title":"Best American Poetry 2000 (2000) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Lehman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRita Dove\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mid an \"explosion in the interest of poetry nationwide\" \u003ci\u003e(The New York Times), The Best American Poetry 2000\u003c\/i\u003e delivers one of the finest volumes yet in this renowned series. Guest editor Rita Dove, a distinguished figure in the poetry world and the second African-American poet ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, brings all of her dynamism and well-honed acumen to bear on this project. Dove used a simple yet exacting method to make her selections: \"The final criterion,\" she writes in her introduction, \"was Emily Dickinson's famed description -- if I felt that the top of my head had been taken off, the poem was in.\" The result is a marvelous collection of consistently high-quality poems diverse in form, tone, style, stance, and subject matter. With comments from the poets themselves illuminating their poems and a foreword by series editor David Lehman, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2000\u003c\/i\u003e is this year's must-have book for all poetry lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Lehman, the series editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, edited \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Book of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. His eleven books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eThe Morning Line\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlaylist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoems in the Manner Of\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen a Woman Loves a Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mirror.\u003c\/i\u003e The most recent of his many nonfiction books is \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761480204576,"sku":"9780743200332","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6d57bb4ceca4afe2f3c9f680dc85b93b.webp?v=1780208594","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/best-american-poetry-2000-2000-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}