Year-End Lists

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2016 Poetry

Chicago Review of Books: 12 Best Poetry Books of 2016

21 January 2017

Thief in the Interior - Phillip B. Williams

Chicago Review of Books: 12 Best Poetry Books of 2016

[see also 2018 • 2017]

  1. Thief in the Interior
    Phillip B. Williams
  2. Poems
    New and Selected
    Ron Rash
  3. Ghost County
    John McCarthy
  4. Popular Music
    Kelly Schirmann
  5. Night-Sky Checkerboard
    Oh Sae-young
  6. The Black Maria
    Aracelis Girmay
  7. 1989, The Number
    Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall
  8. The Secret Birds
    Tony Fitzpatrick
  9. child in a winter house brightening
    Abigail Zimmer
  10. Unbearable Splendor
    Sun Yung Shin
  11. Meditations of a Beast
    Kristine Ong Muslim
  12. Cattle of the Lord
    Rosa Alice Branco

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