 Along with popular poets who have often appeared in previous editions, such as Billy Collins, Louise Gluck and Galway Kinnell, the book includes poets of "off-center traditions" such as Rae Armantrout and Christian Bok.Some of McHugh's selections from newer poets "tend toward the experimental," according to a review in "Publishers Weekly", which pointed to poems from Ben Lerner and Danielle Pafunda as evidence of this.