Best of It

<p><b>From a celebrated United States Poet Laureate a Pulitzer Prize-winning body of work spanning 45 years witty rebellious and yet tender a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind. (<i>Pulitzer.com</i>)</b></p><p>Kay Ryan's two-year term as the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate is just one of many accolades in an amazing array for this wonderfully accessible widely loved poet--her awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation four Pushcart Prizes and a Guggenheim fellowship. Ryan's <i>The Best of It: New and Selected Poems</i> has garnered lavish praise. The two hundred poems in <i>The Best of It</i> offer a stunning retrospective of her work as well as a swath of never-before-published poems--all of which are sure to appeal equally to longtime fans and general readers.</p>