A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025
Edited by the magazine’spoetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New YorkerSeamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, CzesławMiłosz Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John Ashbery, Sandra Cisneros, Amanda Gorman, Maggie Smith, Kaveh Akbar: these stellar names make up just a fraction of the wonderfulness that is present in this essential anthology.The book is organized into sections honoring times of day (“Moning Bell,”“Luch Break,”“AferWork Drinks,”“Niht Shift”, allowing poets from different eras to talk back to one another in the same space, intertwined with chronological groupings from the decades as they march by: the frothy 1920s and 1930s (“depite the depression,”Young notes), the more serious 󈧬and 󈧶(introducing us to the