. . . . "Hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized, every volume in the series consists of seventy-five poems chosen by a major American poet???from John Ashbery in 1988 to Mark Doty in 2012, with stops along the way for such poets as Jorie Graham, Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Louise Gl??ck, James Tate, Adrienne Rich, Paul Muldoon, Billy Collins, Heathe" . . . . . . .