88 Best Poetry Books
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88 Books, According to 172 “Best of” Lists. This list is generated from 172 book polls & top lists from a variety of great sources. The books is ranked based on how many lists a particular book appears on.⇣
Citizen: an American Lyric by Rankine, Claudia (22) |
Faithful and Virtuous Night by Gluck, Louise (7) |
Gabriel: a Poem by Hirsch, Ed (7) |
Prelude to Bruise by Jones, Saeed (7) |
- Lists: a3,b2,b6,b8,c6,c7,f3,g1,g5,k2,l1,l8,l9,m10,m11,n3,n5,n6,n9,p1,s2,v5)
- Lists: g5,k2,m10,n1,n3,p1,s2)
- Lists: a2,b4,g1,l8,m10,n3,s2)
- Lists: b6,f3,g1,m10,n5,n9,n15)
- Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Lockwood, Patricia (6 Lists: b2,b6,f3,g1,m11,n1)
- Collected Poems by Strand, Mark (4 Lists: b2,n3,n6,p5)
- If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? by Harvey, Matthea (4 Lists: b2,f3,p1,s7)
- New Testament, The by Brown, Jericho (3 Lists: l1,m10,s2)
- Poems that Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words that Move Them by Holden, Anthony and Ben, eds. (3 Lists: g1,n15,t3)
- Blood Lyrics by Ford, Katie (2 Lists: k2,l9)
- Feel Trio, The by Moten, Fred (2 Lists: l9,n3)
- Paper Aeroplane: Poems 1989-2014 by Armitage, Simon (2 Lists: g6,n15)
- Pedestrians, The by Zucker, Rachel (2 Lists: g1,m10)
- Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013, The by Walcott, Derek (2 Lists: n1,t3)
- Road to Emmaus, The by Reece, Spencer (2 Lists: c6,n3)
- Rome by Lasky, Dorothy (2 Lists: f3,m10)
- Seam by Faizullah, Tarfia (2 Lists: g1,m10)
- Second Sex, The by Robbins, Michael (2 Lists: f3,m10)
- Talkativeness by Craig, Michael Earl (2 Lists: m10,s2)
- This Blue by McLane, Maureen (2 Lists: l1,n3)
- [Insert] Boy by Smith, Danez (1 Lists: b2)
- Abide by York, Jake Adam (1 Lists: n9)
- Accepting the Disaster by Mehigan, Joshua (1 Lists: c6)
- Angels of the Americlypse: an Anthology of New Latin@ Writing by Smith, Carmen Gimenez & Chavez, John, eds. (1 Lists: b2)
- Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems by Stafford, William (1 Lists: k2)
- Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems by Tonks, Rosemary (1 Lists: b2)
- Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems, The by Fairchild, B. H. (1 Lists: a2)
- Blue Horses: Poems by Oliver, Mary (1 Lists: g1)
- Bone Map by Johnson, Sara Eliza (1 Lists: m10)
- Book of Hours, The by Young, Kevin (1 Lists: k2)
- Breathturn into Timestead: the Collected Later Poetry by Celan, Paul (1 Lists: b2)
- C. H. Sisson Reader, A by Sisson, C. H. (1 Lists: b2)
- Caribou by Wright, Charles (1 Lists: l1)
- Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series by Gregson, Tyler Knott (1 Lists: g1)
- Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson by Buson, Yosa (1 Lists: k2)
- Collected Poems: 1969-2014 by Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (1 Lists: g6)
- Compass Rose by Sze, Arthur (1 Lists: p12)
- Dido in Winter by Shaw, Anne (1 Lists: l1)
- Digest by Pardlo, Gregory (1 Lists: p12)
- Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Greenlaw, Lavinia (1 Lists: c8)
- Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness by Conrad, CA (1 Lists: b2)
- Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, The by Perdomo, Willie (1 Lists: n9)
- Everything I Love Is a Stranger to Someone by Gelman, Annelyse (1 Lists: b6)
- from unincorporated territory [guma'] by Perez, Craig Santos (1 Lists: l1)
- Heteronomy by Nealon, Chris (1 Lists: m10)
- His Day Is Done: a Nelson Mandela Tribute by Angelou, Maya (1 Lists: g1)
- Hustle by Martinez, David Tomas (1 Lists: m10)
- I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan by Griswold, Eliza, trans. & ed. (1 Lists: g1)
- I Don't Know Do You by Montes, Roberto (1 Lists: n5)
- I Wrote This for You: Just the Words by pleasefindthis (1 Lists: g1)
- In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011 by Gizzi, Peter (1 Lists: l9)
- It's Day Being Gone by McLarney, Rose (1 Lists: m10)
- Land in the Storytelling Sea: a North American in Malta, A by Loeffler, Sheryl (1 Lists: b19)
- Letters Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Young, Kevin (1 Lists: g1)
- Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics by Morrison, Van (1 Lists: g6)
- Lullabies by Leav, Lang (1 Lists: g1)
- Mala by McClure, Monica (1 Lists: f3)
- Malaria by Conaway, Cameron (1 Lists: n5)
- Mature Themes by Durbin, Andrew (1 Lists: f3)
- MXT by Queyras, Sina (1 Lists: b2)
- Nejma by Waheed, Nayyirah (1 Lists: g1)
- New Selected Poems by Murray, Les (1 Lists: b2)
- New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Heaney, Seamus (1 Lists: g6)
- No Matter the Wreckage by Kay, Sarah (1 Lists: g1)
- Nothing More to Lose by Darwish, Najwan (1 Lists: n5)
- Once in the West by Wiman, Christian (1 Lists: n9)
- Outside Looking In by Suleyman, Chimene (1 Lists: g6)
- Patter by Kearney, Douglas (1 Lists: b2)
- Peace by Conoley, Gillian (1 Lists: l9)
- Poetry of Witness: the Tradition in English, 1500-2001, The by Forche, Carolyn, ed. (1 Lists: b4)
- Put This On, Please by Trowbridge, William (1 Lists: k2)
- Reel to Reel by Shapiro, Alan (1 Lists: p12)
- Reliquaria by Villanueva, R. A. (1 Lists: m10)
- Repast: Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails by Powell, D.A. (1 Lists: f3)
- Roget's Illusion by Bierds, Linda (1 Lists: n3)
- Sailing the Forest: Selected Poems by Robertson, Robin (1 Lists: g6)
- Second Childhood by Howe, Fanny (1 Lists: n3)
- Several World, A by Blanchfield, Brian (1 Lists: n3)
- Sun Bear by Zapruder, Matthew (1 Lists: s2)
- Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems, A by Hughes, Ted (1 Lists: g6)
- They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full by Bibbins, Mark (1 Lists: p1)
- Titanic by Corrigan, Cecilia (1 Lists: f3)
- Underground: New and Selected Poems by Moore, Jim (1 Lists: s2)
- What We Buried by Siehl, Caitlin (1 Lists: g1)
- Whole & Rain-Domed Universe, The by Bryce, Colette (1 Lists: b2)
- Wolf Centos by Muench, Simone (1 Lists: k2)
- Woman with a Gambling Mania by Anderson, Catherine (1 Lists: k2)
- You Can Make Anything Sad by Madsen, Spencer (1 Lists: g1)
