Year-End Lists

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