The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Ryan, Kay

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

Kay Ryan, named the Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry 2010, is just the latest in an amazing...
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The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Ryan, Kay

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

$48.26

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

$48.26
Author: Kay Ryan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.


Author: Kay Ryan
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 03/23/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.78w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9780802119148
Audience: Young Adult


Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
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

About the Author
A Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets since 2006, Kay Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Best of It and was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2008 until 2010. She has lived in Marin County, California, since 1971.

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