18 Best Poetry Books to Read Right Now

I’ve always been envious of poets. For me, poetry is acknowledgment of the primacy of the word as the building block for writing.

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  •  Blue Laws by Kevin Young

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  • The Unaccompanied by  Simon Armitage

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  • bone by  Yrsa Daley-Ward; Foreword by Kiese Laymon

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  • Love in the Last Days by  D. Nurkse

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  • Poet in Spain by Federico García Lorca

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  • The Rain in Portugal by  Billy Collins

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  • How Lovely the Ruins by Edited by Annie Chagnot and Emi Ikkanda

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  • Devotions by Mary Oliver

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  •  Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis

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  • The Surveyors by Mary Jo Salter

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  • With the River on our Face by  Emmy Pérez

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  • Electric Arches by  Eve L. Ewing

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  • Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey

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  • Thousands by  Lightsey Darst

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  • Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder

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  • Best American Poetry 2017 by  David Lehman and Natasha Trethewey

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  • Equipment for Living by  Michael Robbins

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  • Poetry Will Save Your Life by Jill Bialosky

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