20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own
Verse to reach for on a lazy evening—or a difficult day: The poetry no reader's library should be without.
By Carmela Ciuraru
14 of 20
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
By Kay Ryan
288 pages;
Grove Press
At once direct and mysterious, Ryan's brief poems are gnomic delights: "Intention doesn't sweeten. / It should be picked young / and eaten."
— Carmela Ciuraru
Published 03/18/2011
