
From the Publisher This small anthology represents some of the best new poetry from the writers of tomorrow. In 138 pages, Best New Poets 2005 showcases fifty poems by poets who have yet to publish their first book-length collection. Product Description An annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers nominated by writing programs, literary magazines, and an open competition. Review "New work that radiates, by turns, with lyric depth, narrative complexity, cultural savvy, and a prodigious range of human emotion." --Lisa Russ Spaar "This anthology... deserves and demands our attention. The poems attract us with direct, intense, and formal authority." --Eric Pankey About the Author George Garrett is the author of 34 books. He has served as the Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia and has been honored with many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Grant, the T.S. Eliot Award, the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. Jeb Livingood teaches at the University of Virginia, where he serves a faculty advisor for Meridian.
Page Count:
132
Publication Date:
2005-01-01
ISBN-10:
0976629607
ISBN-13:
9780976629603
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