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  The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Hardback) By (author) Kay Ryan

  

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  Short Description for The Best of It Ryan's recent appointment as the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. The two hundred poems in Ryan's "The Best of It" offer a stunning retrospective of her work.
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  • Publisher: Grove Press
  • Published: 08 April 2010
  • Format: Hardback 270 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9780802119148 ISBN 10: 080211914X
  • Sales rank: 175,821

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Full description for The Best of It

• Kay Ryan's recent appointment as the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this widely loved poet. Salon has compared her poems to "Faberge eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder." The two hundred poems in Ryan's new and selected collection offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems--all of which will appeal to longtime fans and new readers.