The Best American Poetry 1988 [SEP] editor
The Best American Poetry 1988
The Best American Poetry 1988, the first volume in "The Best American Poetry series", was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor John Ashbery, who chose one of his own poems among the group of 75.
Lehman's forward.
Although Lehman would later use his forewords as a kind of "state of poetry" review of the previous year, in this first volume he concentrated on the nature of this anthology, with most of the foreword given over to explaining the
Bloom, who selected what he regarded as the seventy-five best poems from the previous ten anthologies. This was followed in 2013 by "The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (2013)" in which guest editor Robert Pinsky selected 100 poems from the series' history.
A collection of Lehman's forewords was published together as a look at contemporary poetry called "The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014".
Guest editors.
The guest editors