Product Description: "If McHugh is serious, she's anything but grim; with all her punning, bantering, and mock scolding of herself . . . she brightens the shadowy corners of her world with verbal pyrotechnics."—The New York Times Book Review"Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted: part safety net, part trampoline...read more

A twentieth installment in an annual series is an anthology of the past year's top-selected works by some of America's leading working poets, in a volume that includes pieces by such established names as Louise Gluck, Paul Muldoon, and Michael Palmer as well as an assortment of newcomers. Simultaneous. 40,000 first printing.