“A new book of poems—or of anything—by Mark Doty is good news in a dark time,” W. S. Merwin once wrote. “The precision, daring, scope, elegance of his compassion and of the language in which he ...

Edited by Mark Doty; series editor, David Lehman. Scribner, $16 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8152-2 Now in its 25th year, the Best American Poetry anthologies have become something of a ...

Her debut collection Middle Kingdom (1997) draws from her experiences as a Chinese-American woman, and has been heralded for its ability to negotiate the “slippery, hard-to-read territory between ...