Best American Poetry 2017

Hardcover, 256 pages

Published by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-1-5011-2763-2
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4 stars (1 review)

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Review of 'Best American Poetry 2017' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

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.