Year-End Lists

Entropy: Best Poetry Books of 2017 (numbered but “in no particular order”)

[see also 2019 • 2018]

1. Inherit
   Ginger Ko
2. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
   Chen Chen
3. WHEREAS
   Layli Long Soldier
4. Don’t Call Us Dead
   Danez Smith
5. Beast Meridian
   Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
6. In the Language of My Captor
   Shane McCrae
7. Field Theories
   Samiya Bashir
8. Nature Poem
   Tommy Pico
9. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
   Morgan Parker
10. The Yellow House
    Chiwan Choi
11. I’m So Fine

    A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
    Khadijah Queen
12. In Full Velvet
    Jenny Johnson
13. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
    Kaveh Akbar
14. Here High Note, High Note
    Catherine Blauvelt
15. Outplace
    Lital Khaikin
16. recombinant
    Ching-In Chen
17. Love, Robot
    Margaret Rhee
18. Together and By Ourselves
    Alex Dimitrov
19. Good Stock Strange Blood
    Dawn Lundy Martin
20. Ordinary Beast
    Nicole Sealey
21. Thousand Star Hotel
    Bao Phi
22. Desgraciado
    Ángel Domínguez
23. The Flayed City
    Hari Alluri
24. Field Glass
    Joanna Howard and Joanna Ruocco
25. Madness
    Sam Sax
26. Hollywood Forever
    Harmony Holiday
27. The Happy End / All Welcome
    Monica de la Torre
28. A Turkish Dictionary
    Andrew Wessels
29. The Most Foreign Country
    Alejandra Pizarnik
30. Half-Light

    Collected Poems 1965-2016
    Frank Bidart
31. MyOTHER TONGUE
    Rosa Alcalá
32. The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded
    Molly McCully Brown
33. Thrust
    Heather Derr-Smith
34. Gnome
    Robert Lunday
35. the magic my body becomes
    Jess Rizkallah
36. In the Still of the Night
    Dara Wier
37. Afterland
    Mai Der Vang
38. Lessons on Expulsion
    Erika L. Sánchez
39. Gray Market
    Krystal Languell
40. Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut
    Vickie Vértiz
41. Light Into Bodies
    Nancy Chen Long
42. Resistance, Rebellion, Life

    50 Poems Now
    Edited by Amit Majmudar
43. Some Beheadings
    Aditi Machado
44. I Love It Though
    Alli Warren
45. Good Bones
    Maggie Smith
46. Map to the Stars
    Adrian Matejka
47. I Remember Nightfall
    Marosa di Giorgio
48. Hard Child
    Natalie Shapero
49. Prosopopoeia
    Farid Tali
50. Adrenalin
    Ghayath Almadhoun
51. My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
    Aja Monet
52. Fast
    Jorie Graham
53. Adam Cannot Be Adam
    Kelli Anne Noftle
54. Anemal Uter Meck
    Mg Roberts
55. Open Epic
    Julia Drescher
56. Pizza and Warfare
    Nikki Wallschlaeger
57. Unaccompanied
    Javier Zamora
58. The Book of Endings
    Leslie Harrison
59. To Love the Coming End
    Leanne Dunic
60. What’s Hanging on the Hush
    Lauren Russell