The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

By Kay Ryan

Book Overview

From a celebrated United States Poet Laureate, a Pulitzer Prize-winning "body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind." (Pulitzer.com)

Kay Ryan's two-year term as the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate is just one of many accolades in an amazing array for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet--her awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Ryan's The Best of It: New and Selected Poems has garnered lavish praise. The two hundred poems in The Best of It offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems--all of which are sure to appeal equally to longtime fans and general readers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802145213
• ISBN13: 9780802145215
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher