Personal Best
Makers on Their Poems that Matter MostHome 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. ISBN: 9781556596520, 1556596529
