Personal Best

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Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most

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Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a compelling anthology featuring fifty-eight poems chosen by their authors, each paired with an essay explaining its significance. This collection offers readers unique insights into the creative process and the personal meaning behind each poem, showcasing a diverse range of voices from emerging and established poets in the United States.
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This anthology is ideal for poetry enthusiasts and new readers alike who wish to deepen their understanding of poetic art through personal reflections from the poets themselves.

"An anthology of poems edited by Erin Belieu and Carl Phillips"--

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Home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.

Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays that explain how and why each poet chose a poem as their 'personal best'.

The anthology offers a provocative and surprising range of responses in which readers will find poetic context for the life of a poem and revelatory insight into the unique, personal experiences that shape the writing process itself.

Including works from a wide variety of voices both new and well-established, Personal Best is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.

The anthology gives readers—both long-time fans of poetry and those just discovering its possibilities—an intimate view of the heart and spirit that make poetry one of our most quintessentially human forms of expression.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781556596520

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 December 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Carl Phillips
Edited by Erin Belieu

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 282

Collections

Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Erin Belieu is the author of five poetry collections, all from Copper Canyon Press, including her most recent, Come-Hither Honeycomb. Belieu literary activism earned her the AWP's George Garrett Prize for her service to the national writing community, and she co-founded VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and Writers Resist. Belieu teaches in the University of Houston MFA/Ph.D. Creative Writing Program and for Lesley University's low residency MFA program in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Carl Phillips is a seasoned poet, author, and translator who has published three prose books and sixteen poetry collections, most recently Then the War: New And Selected Poems 2007-2020His honors include the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (2023), a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis with a focus on contemporary poetry, classical philology, and translation.