Book Cover The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

of Kay Ryan

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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 “FabergĂ© 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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Book Details

  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 265 pages
  • Publisher Grove Press
  • Publication Date March 23rd 2010
  • First Publication February 8th 2010
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780802119148
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Poetry & Essays
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