Autobiography of Red: How to Read a Monster's Adolescence
Anne Carson turns a ruined Greek fragment into a verse novel about a red, winged boy falling in love, and it is stranger and better than the premise suggests.
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The Wild Iris
Flowers, a gardener, and God take turns speaking in Glück's 1992 collection, and none of them cancels the others out.
Heaney's North is the hardest thing he wrote and the one that matters
A collection that uses Iron Age bog bodies to write about Northern Ireland, and is still argued about.
Danez Smith writes for the page and the room at once
A collection that works read silently and works completely differently read aloud — which is the whole argument.