Full name: The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

Author: Kay Ryan Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780802119148 9780802145215 080211914X 0802145213

Kay Ryan, named the Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry 2010, is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. She was appointed the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate from 2008 to 2010. Salon has compared her poems to "Faberge eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder." The two hundred poems in Ryan's The Best of It offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems of which are sure to appeal equally to longtime fans and general readers. Similar books: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot Dream Work by Mary Oliver Red Bird by Mary Oliver The Way It Is by William Stafford The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser