BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing

BAX #2

by Seth Abramson (Editor), Charles Bernstein (Editor), Tracie Morris (Editor)

BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing is the third volume of this annual literary anthology compiling the best experimental writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. This year s volume, guest-edited by Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris, features seventy-five works by some of the most exciting American poets and writers today, including established authors like Sina Queyras, Tan Lin, Christian Bok, Myung Mi Kim, Juliana Spahr, Samuel R. Delany, and even Barack Obama as well as emerging voices. Intended to provoke lively conversation and debate, Best American Experimental Writing is an ideal literary anthology for contemporary classroom settings."

Genres: Poetry

264 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 17, 2017

About the author

Seth Abramson is author of The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009) and a contributing author to The Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). In 2008 he was awarded the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize by Poetry. His poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2008, Poetry, American Poetry Review, AGNI, Poets & Writers, and New American Writing. A graduate of Harvard Law School and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently a doctoral student in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews

[Nikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of those "smart" books that you are meant to spend time with. I think I might have had a greater appreciation for some of the works here if they all contained notes about the author's process. Some of these were hit or miss for me, or I couldn't tell why they would be considered experimental.