The Best of It

The Best of It (2011) is a selected collection of poems by Kay Ryan published by Grove Press. The collection won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. The collection includes both poems original to The Best of It as well as poems selected from Ryan's former collections of poetry, specifically from Flamingo Watching (1994), Elephant Rocks (1996), Say Uncle (2000), and The Niagara River (2005).