Read it here
https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/best-american-poetry-2022
and for a foretaste, here are a few paragraphs from Ethelbert’s review:
“If you are reading this and don’t read much poetry, or feel uncertain in relation to it, you are more than welcome here. Maybe you are browsing in a bookstore, or have been assigned this book for a class, or have received it as a gift. Please know that I chose these poems thinking of you.”
This is an admirable approach to editing a collection of poems. If we were talking about food we would expect carryout even before the pandemic. Might the reader find a milkshake after turning a few pages?
One will find quite a number of poems dealing with death. No surprise here. Our lives the last few years have been restricted; many people separated from their families and loved ones. Death is a writer’s topic, the poet ponders not just loss but the meaning of life. Zapruder writes, “Many of our contemporary poems enter into that conflict between the self and the collective—not to resolve it, which would be impossible, but to clarify our position.” >>
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Author: The Best American Poetry
