A review by davenash
The Best American Poetry 2017 by David Lehman, Natasha Trethewey
4.0
This is wide survey of what got published last year.
Some of it is good - Good Bones, The Mercy Home, Bullet Points, Progress Notes, The Age of Anxiety,
Some not - Cause of Death Faux News [COULD THE TITLE BE ANYMORE CLICHE], I forgive you, Weapons Discharge Report, Hamlet Text Guilderstient (if you are going to riff the Bard it better be good)
What I didn't like was politically motivated poetry. That doesn't work and I'm not sure just because it is in verse that it qualifies as poetry.
Some of it is good - Good Bones, The Mercy Home, Bullet Points, Progress Notes, The Age of Anxiety,
Some not - Cause of Death Faux News [COULD THE TITLE BE ANYMORE CLICHE], I forgive you, Weapons Discharge Report, Hamlet Text Guilderstient (if you are going to riff the Bard it better be good)
What I didn't like was politically motivated poetry. That doesn't work and I'm not sure just because it is in verse that it qualifies as poetry.