The Best American Poetry 2013

Beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel selects the poems for the 2013 edition of The Best American Poetry , “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” ( Chicago Tribune). Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase” ( The Washington Post ). This year, guest editor Denise Duhamel brings her wit and enthusiasm and her commitment to poetry in all its wide variety to bea