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The Best American Poetry 2015 (The Best American Poetry series) Hardcover – September 8, 2015
Author: David Lehman ID: 1476708193

Review

“A ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title.”
— Chicago Tribune

“Each year, a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and memorable: and over the years, as good a comprehensive overview of contem-porary poetry as there can be.”
— Robert Pinsky

About the Author

David Lehman, series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. His books of poetry include New and Selected Poems, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. He teaches in the New School graduate writing program and lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.

Sherman Alexie, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, a PEN/Hemingway Citation for Best First Fiction, and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and performer. His twenty-four books include What I've Stolen, What I've Earned, poetry, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a novel. Alexie has been an urban Indian since 1994 and lives in Seattle with his family.

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Series: The Best American Poetry seriesHardcover: 240 pagesPublisher: Scribner (September 8, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1476708193ISBN-13: 978-1476708195 Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.4 inches Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #276,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #330 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Anthologies #1076 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > United States #35522 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
Whether it be short stories or poetry, I always pick up a collection assuming I won’t like the whole thing. With short stories, I’m generally pretty happy if I like more than half and thrilled if it’s over three-quarters. With poetry anthologies, especially those by multiple authors, it’s a bit of a different story. Give me a handful of poems that strike me on the spot, or that linger in the mind long after (sometimes they’re the same and sometimes not), or even some lines that wow me, and I’m good. Because one good poem, or three powerful lines can make up for a whole lot of “meh.” If you can’t find underlines or margin notes (or in the case of my Kindle, highlights and bookmarks) in my poetry book, I didn’t much care for it. So how does Best American Poetry 2015 fare on this scale? Pretty good, even if to be honest there were a lot of poems that just didn’t do it for me. But as poetry is so incredibly subjective, and as a reader isn’t investing in a 900-page novel, I’m going to focus less on what I didn’t care for and more on what I did (if I refer to great lines but don’t offer them up, it’s so as not to ruin the effect of their arrival in the poem for the reader).

Jame’s Galvin’s “On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses” is a plainspoken piece that begins with a striking conception:
On starless, windless nights like this
I imagine
I can hear the wedding dresses
Weeping in their closets
Luminescent with hopeless longing,
Like hollow angels.

and then moves on to some surprisingly evocative imagery as the dresses
turn yellow over time,
Yellow from praying
For the moths to come
And carry them into the sky.
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