A 100th birthday tribute to the iconic entertainer collects 100 short reflections on subjects ranging from his childhood in Hoboken and emergence in the 1940s to his romantic entanglements and bonds with the Rat Pack. By the award-winning editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry.

A collection of poetry from American writers in the current year.

This collection redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present. It features the work of more than 200 poets, almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. The book includes not only writers born since the previous edition, but also many fine poets overlooked in earlier editions or little known in the past but highly deserving of attention. Many more women and African-American poets are represented,...

A collection of over sixty-eight poems by American poet A.R. Ammons in which he makes observations of the natural world and speculates about philosophical topics.

"Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year's most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are "for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights...

Seventy-five poems selected from the last ten years of the series: The best American poetry. Also includes a listing of all poets and poems included from 1988 through 1997 in The best American poetry.

An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.