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Brooklyn Rail: Joseph Salvatore: Best 25 Poetry Books of 2017

09 January 2018

Advances in Embroidery - Ahmad Al-Ashqar

Joseph Salvatore: Best 25 Poetry Books of 2017, as published by The Brooklyn Rail

  1. Advances in Embroidery
    Poems, with Translations from Mahmoud Darwish
    Ahmad Al-Ashqar
  2. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
    Kaveh Akbar
  3. Bye-Bye Land
    Christian Barter
  4. Before the Drought
    Margo Berdeshevsky
  5. Half-Light
    Collected Poems 1965-2016
    Frank Bidart
  6. Let’s Not Live on Earth
    Sarah Blake
  7. Second Nature
    Patricia Carlin
  8. Barbie Chang
    Victoria Chang
  9. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
    Chen Chen
  10. bone
    Yrsa Daley-Ward
  11. Trophic Cascade
    Camille T. Dungy
  12. The January Children
    Safia Elhillo
  13. Gates & Fields
    Jennifer Firestone
  14. Sky Country
    Christine Kitano
  15. I Am Flying into Myself
    Selected Poems, 1960-2014
    Bill Knott
  16. These Days Of Candy
    Manuel Paul Lopez
  17. In the Language of My Captor
    Shane McCrae
  18. Devotions
    The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
    Mary Oliver
  19. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
    Morgan Parker
  20. On Imagination
    Mary Ruefle
  21. Lessons on Expulsion
    Erika L. Sánchez
  22. Don’t Call Us Dead
    Danez Smith
  23. The Trembling Answers
    Craig Morgan Teicher
  24. Afterland
    Mai Der Vang
  25. Where the Time Goes
    Gale Renee Walden

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