Mark Ford: Selected Poems

Ford is editing the UK edition of the Best American Poetry series and we can expect attention and support from them hereFord is a very active critic and both well-known and well-respected in both the UK and the US with regular reviews in the TLS and London Review of BooksFord's work has appeared in the US in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review, Bookforum, and The New Republic.Ford is well known here for having edited O'Hara's selected poemsFord's work has been reviewed enthusiastically in the New York Times in the pastFord's is constantly reinventing himself as a poet, giving the collection a versatility and variety that's excitingFord says he writes to delight the reader (Vendler has said she reads him "with instant joy") and it's that kind of energy that drives his work and makes it so appealingFord first came to poetry via the American greats-Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Williams, Eliot, Pound, Bishop, Ginsberg-and those influences are alive in his work todayThe book includes a section of new poems as well, for those US readers familiar with his work