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Below, she rounds up her favorite poetry of the year.
These are poets, in other words, who have made silence speak.
Murray, who had a heart defect sparked by rheumatic fever, battled illness her whole life.
Auden awarded her the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize posthumously in 1947.
Drop your lids, little architect.
Admit the bats of wisdom into your head.
Smith is the poet laureate of the United States.
Her fourth book, following on the Pulitzer PrizewinningLife on Mars, braids the political and the domestic.
The result is like no other poem in the English language.
Stealthily beautiful,Eye Levelis one of those immersive books that changes you as you read it.
Go, he writes in About a White City.
These crackling poems move insistently toward endings that open onto both violence and joy.
I carry money bearing / The face of my assassins, one asserts.
(Charles, a transgender woman, is a scholar of medieval literature.)
Innovative, dazzling, moving, this book is a knockout.
You who were given a life, what did you make of it?
Gander asks in this book of searching elegies for his partner, the poet C.D.
Wright, who died in 2016.
This book reminds me more of Emily Dickinsons work than any contemporary book does.
Iconoclastic and penetrating, the speaker of these poems unsettles and enlivens.
