Best of It

Kay Ryan's recently concluded two-year term 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--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.