Year-End Lists

E. Ce Miller: 18 Best Poetry Collections of 2017, as published by Bustle

[see also 2018 • 2016]

• Testify
  Simone John
• bone
  Yrsa Daley-Ward
• Magdalene
  Marie Howe
• Earthling
  James Longenbach
• Half-Light

  Collected Poems 1965-2016
  Frank Bidart
• I Wore My Blackest Hair
  Carlina Duan
• The Sun and Her Flowers
  Rupi Kaur
• Afterland
  Mai Der Vang
• Unaccompanied
  Javier Zamora
• I Am Flying into Myself

  Selected Poems, 1960-2014
  Bill Knott
• When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
  Chen Chen
• Thousands
  Lightsey Darst
• In the Language of My Captor
  Shane McCrae
• Together and By Ourselves
  Alex Dimitrov
• Don’t Call Us Dead
  Danez Smith
• WHEREAS
  Layli Long Soldier
• My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
  Aja Monet
• How Lovely the Ruins

  Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times
  various poets, selected by Annie Chagnot and Emi Ikkanda