The Best American Poetry 2012

Edited this year by acclaimed poet and writer Mark Doty, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns.

Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems in a comic register; poems that tell stories and poems that test the boundaries of innovative composition. This landmark edition includes David Lehman’s ke...