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Douglas Kearney

Sho

Wave Books
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Tolu Oloruntoba

The Junta of Happenstance

Palimpsest Press
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Valzhyna Mort

Music for the Dead and Resurrected

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Canisia Lubrin

The Dyzgraphxst

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Sarah Riggs

Time

translated from the French written by
Etel Adnan
Nightboat Books
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Kaie Kellough

Magnetic Equator

McClelland & Stewart
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Don Mee Choi

Autobiography of Death

translated from the Korean written by
Kim Hyesoon
New Directions Publishing
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Eve Joseph

Quarrels

Anvil Press
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Susan Howe

Debths

New Directions Publishing
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Billy-Ray Belcourt

This Wound Is a World

Frontenac House
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Alice Oswald

Falling Awake

Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape, W. W. Norton & Company
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Jordan Abel

Injun

Talonbooks
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Norman Dubie

The Quotations of Bone

Copper Canyon Press
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Liz Howard

Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

McClelland & Stewart
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Michael Longley

The Stairwell

Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape
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Jane Munro

Blue Sonoma

Brick Books
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Brenda Hillman

Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire

Wesleyan University Press
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Anne Carson

Red Doc>

McClelland & Stewart
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Fady Joudah

Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me

translated from the Arabic written by
Ghassan Zaqtan
Yale University Press
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David W. McFadden

What's the Score?

Mansfield Press
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David Harsent

Night

Faber & Faber
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Ken Babstock

Methodist Hatchet

House of Anansi
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Heavenly Questions

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Dionne Brand

Ossuaries

McClelland & Stewart
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

The Sun-Fish

The Gallery Press
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Karen Solie

Pigeon

House of Anansi
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C. D. Wright

Rising, Falling, Hovering

Copper Canyon Press
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A. F. Moritz

The Sentinel

House of Anansi
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John Ashbery

Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

HarperCollins/Ecco
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Robin Blaser

Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser

University of California Press
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Charles Wright

Scar Tissue

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Don McKay

Strike/Slip

McClelland & Stewart
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Kamau Brathwaite

Born to Slow Horses

Wesleyan University Press
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Sylvia Legris

Nerve Squall

Coach House Books
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Charles Simic

Selected Poems: 1963-2003

Faber & Faber
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Roo Borson

A Short Journey Upriver Towards Oishida

McClelland & Stewart
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August Kleinzahler

The Strange Hours Travelers Keep

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Anne Simpson

Loop

McClelland & Stewart
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Paul Muldoon

Moy Sand and Gravel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Margaret Avison

Concrete and Wild Carrot

Brick Books
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Alice Notley

Disobedience

Penguin Books USA
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Christian Bök

Eunoia

Coach House Books
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Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh

Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan

translated from the original written by
Paul Celan
Wesleyan University Press
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Anne Carson

Men in the Off Hours

Alfred A. Knopf
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