4/1/2023 0 Comments Song thief in the night![]() In the end, the volumes we chose have very little in common except a belief that language, when compressed, rinsed, and turned even slightly from its everyday use, still has the power to move us. We wanted poems that refreshed conventions and poems that took the top of our heads off, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson. We wanted poems rich with detail and poems frugal with their words. ![]() Still, choosing 10 collections was difficult. Perhaps the most honest approach is just to share some of the books that stick in our heads: ones that keep pulling us back, whether they comfort, shake, or perplex us. “Do you want to cry? Or chuckle? Or wrestle with history, or imagine faraway futures, or think about the human condition?” There are a trillion different collections for every mood: some cerebral some wrenching some playful, goofy, even strange. We’re also frequently asked, “What poetry should I read?” The question couldn’t be more reasonable, but embarrassingly, it tends to make our minds go blank. Each week, there are new PDFs in our inboxes our desks are covered with chaotic piles of books we’ve yet to crack open, and our shelves are already packed with old favorites. As editors who review poetry for The Atlantic, we read a lot of poems.
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