The Best of It: New and Selected Poems Contributor(s): Ryan, Kay (Author) |
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ISBN: 080211914X ISBN-13: 9780802119148 Publisher: Grove Press
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2010398144 |
Age Level: 16-UP |
Grade Level: 11-UP |
Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.78" W x 8.5" L (0.96 lbs) 288 pages |
Features: Deckle Edges, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist, Poetry, 2010 |
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 05/06/2011 pg. 25 Library Journal 02/01/2010 pg. 68 Publishers Weekly 02/22/2010 pg. 47 Booklist 03/01/2010 pg. 42 New Yorker (The) 04/12/2010 pg. 76 New York Review of Books 12/23/2010 pg. 79 Christian Century 12/14/2010 pg. 26 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Kay Ryan, named the Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry 2010, is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. She was appointed the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. Salon has compared her poems to "Faberg eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder." The two hundred poems in Ryan's The Best of It offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems of which are sure to appeal equally to longtime fans and general readers. |
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