The Best American Poetry 2024 - Grand Format

The BEST AMERICAN POETRY series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets) since 1988. Each volume presents a curated selection of the year's most astonishing, inventive poems, complete with comments from the poets themselves offering unique insight into their work. The guest editor for The Best Amer. icon Poetry 2024, Mary Jo Salter, whose own poems display a sublime wit "driven by a compulsion to confront the inexplicable" (James Longenbach), has selected seventy-five poems that capture the dynamism of American poetry today.
The series and guest editors contribute illuminating introductory essays that assess the current state of American poetry, and this year's edition is certain to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the most important poetry anthology of our time.