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Lichtenberg Figures
by Ben Lerner
Staff Pick
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It Is Daylight
by Arda Collins
Staff Pick
Part of Louise Gluck's power squad of the Yale Younger Poets Series, Arda Collins dominated my poetry world this year. Both lonely and comical, Collins plays with God much like, dare I say, Berryman does in The Dream Songs. Collins shows me a place that... (read more)

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Factory of Tears
by Valzhyna Mort
Staff Pick
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Flowers
by Paul Killebrew
Staff Pick
Flowers does for me what a John Ashbery collection does: mystifies, stifles, and causes a desire to mimic, leaving with it the eventual personal failure to do so. These are signs of great poetry. Killebrew succeeds in creating comic and anecdotal lines... (read more)

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Poker
by Tomaz Salamun
Staff Pick
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