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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.

Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
A Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets since 2006, Kay Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Best of It and was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2008 until 2010. She has lived in Marin County, California, since 1971.
Rezensionen
2011 Pulitzer Price Winner for Poetry:
"Awarded to The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, by Kay Ryan (Grove Press), a body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind." Pulitzer.com

Everything [Ryan's] eye falls upon takes on a brisk, beautifully complete clarity. Her tidy lines disguise an enormous intelligence and tonal warmth: a ferocious capacity for finding the essence of things. The Best of It reveals that right before our eyes Ryan has become a classic American poet."John Freeman, Los Angeles Times

Ryan's poems are as slim as runway models, so tiny you could almost tweet them...Her voice is quizzical and impertinent, funny in uncomfortable ways, scuffed by failure and loss. Her mastery, like Emily Dickinson's, has some awkwardness in it, some essential gawkiness that draws you close you can't help consuming [her] poems quickly, the way you are supposed to consume freshly made cocktails: while they are still smiling at you. But you immediately double backwhat was that?and their moral and intellectual bite blindsides you."Dwight Garner, The New York Times

[Ryan] has the uncanny ability to construct a tiny word-mechanism that produces the experience of genuine wonder."Steven Ratiner, The Washington Post

Kay Ryan [is] among the geniuses celebratedfor her clear style that puts her in the company of Robert Frost." Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times

The Best of It displays an astounding consistency of tone and quality[Her] gifts call to mind some illustrious predecessors, including Dickinson, Stevens, Moore and Frost. Despite the echoes, though, Ryan is so arresting and genuinely original that her book stays in the mind in a way unlike much contemporary poetry, so often impenetrable and self-absorbed. In today's world of exploding self-expression and relentless ephemera, Kay Ryan sticks."Michael Lindgren, Cleveland Plain-Dealer

[Ryan's] work is concise, exquisitely crafted, and explores the landscape of the mindThe Best of It lives up to its promise and has the potential to change the way many American poets think and write."Elizabeth Lund, Christian Science Monitor

Pithy poems manage to encapsulate far more than their few words should holdSassy, smart and deep as they are hilarious, Ryan's poems are among the best."Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Droll, exquisite, weirdly stupendous poems[they] are brief, seemingly offhand. But they go off in the head like firecrackers. Ryan's on the zip line to Parnassus."Terry Castle, author of The Professor and Other Writings, San Francisco Chronicle's Summer Reading Recommendations"

[Ryan's] most startling discovery is that melancholy, with its tendency to brood and spread, is best contained in a form that is tight, witty, almost sprightly sounding. Her poems are often built on the logic of the pun, taking an ordinary word or dead cliché as a title and then jolting it to unexpected life."Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker

Ryan is one of the few contemporary poets to have imitators because she is one of the few truly compelling stylists now at work. Her voice is authoritative, confident, unfussy, exactingshe is astutely reserved, watchful, and understands that no one is special in his or her griefSo many new and selected" volumes come out each year, but The Best of It is rare in being truly the best of the poet's work so far. Kay Ryan is so disarming, so fresh and original, that she has earned her recent reputation as one of the very best poets among us."David Mason, The Hudson Review

If the job of poetry is to distill language and experience, there are few greater contemporary masters of the form than Ryan[Her work] never fails to surprise, enlighten and delight."Carmela Ciuraru, Newsday

Ryan is the poet of the possible, who keeps to the edges of words and thoughts, leaving emotions for others to find[her poetry] is singular, playful as well as serious, forcing us to prick up our ears and listen."Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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