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    "description": "National Book Award\u2013winning poet Terrance Hayes selects the poems for the 2014 edition of The Best American Poetry, \u201ca \u2018best\u2019 anthology that really lives up to its title\u201d (Chicago Tribune).\n\nThe first book of poetry that Terrance Hayes ever bought was the 1990 edition of The Best American Poetry, edited by Jorie Graham. Hayes was then an undergrad at a small South Carolina college. He has since published four highly honored books of poetry, is a professor of poetry at the University of Pittsburgh, has appeared multiple times in the series, and is one of today\u2019s most decorated poets. His brazen, restless poems capture the diversity of American culture with singular artistry, grappling with facile assumptions about identity and the complex repercussions of race history in this country.\n\nAlways eagerly anticipated, the 2014 volume of The Best American Poetry begins with David Lehman\u2019s \u201cstate-of-the-art\u201d foreword followed by an inspired introduction from Terrance Hayes on his picks for the best American poems of the past year. Following the poems is the apparatus for which the series has won acclaim: notes from the poets about the writing of their poems.",
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