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Poetry Gift Guide

The best kind of gifts are well-considered, endlessly comforting, and abundantly generous—in essence, they make us feel less alone. You could describe the best kind of poems in the same terms. Here are some suggestions of poetry collections worth giving this holiday season that make thoughtful gifts with many returns.

Louise Glück Poems 1962‒2012

An indispensable edition of the work of Louise Glück, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, showcasing her singular sharp gaze and effortless grace—equally perfect for longtime fans or for those experiencing the wonder of her verse for the first time.

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dayliGht by Roya Marsh

A visionary debut collection from the spoken-word poet Roya Marsh, dayliGht boldly and beautifully rebukes broken notions of race and gender in a collection that should be required reading.

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Sometimes I Never Suffered

Breathlessly spanning religious, historical, and political periods and themes, Sometimes I Never Suffered sees Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stories” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker), at the height of his dizzyingly formidable poetic powers. “In McCrae’s hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through” (The Guardian).

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Music for the Dead and Resurrected

A spellbinding collection from the Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort that is searingly “ethereal and personal, poignant and political” (Diego Báez, Booklist).

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Here Is the Sweet Hand

Against the backdrop of various American cities and towns, and in a time of political uncertainty, the speakers in francine j. harris’s strikingly contemporary third collection are often unabashed heroines—in this way, Here is the Sweet Hand often feels victorious and celebratory with poems that are “so full of heat, so pressing, that you’ll hold your breath until the last line” (goop).

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Frederick Seidel Selected Poems

Spanning more than five decades and offering some of the master poet Frederick Seidel’s most powerful work, Frederick Seidel Selected Poems makes it easy to see why Seidel has been hailed as “the best American poet writing today” (Adam Kirsch).

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Averno

For those hungry for more of Louise Glück’s work, her tenth collection “may be her masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers” (Nicholas Christopher, The New York Times Book Review).

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Memory Rose into Threshold Speech

An omnibus of Paul Celan’s first four books, translated by the prize-winning poet and translator Pierre Joris and accompanied by a new introduction and extensive commentary, this edition manages to be “as close as we will ever get to the sense of a body of poetry that continually challenges the boundaries of language” (J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature). In other words, it is essential reading.

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Snow Approaching on the Hudson

Moving seamlessly through the often hypnagogic, porous realms of dreams, the past and present, and inner and outer landscapes, August Kleinzahler’s Snow Approaching on the Hudson lingers and haunts in the very best way long after reading.

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Blizzard

Equally classic as it is contemporary, Henri Cole’s lucid and lyrical tenth collection is, put simply, “true poetry, the thing we mean by that word” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR).

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Pale Colors in a Tall Field

Named a Best Poetry Collection of 2020 by The Washington Post, Pale Colors in a Tall Field is an extraordinary showcase of Carl Phillips’s effusively gorgeous verse, infused with visceral passion, longing, and beauty. “Phillips is the type of writer to make us believe that, perhaps, poetry truly is the form in which story and song best breathe together” (The Millions).

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Three Poems

“If you are missing cocktail bars, New York City before the shutdown or simply pellucid and startlingly intelligent poetry, Three Poems is a book for you,” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review). Intimate and lushly sensory, Three Poems, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, is a wholly transcendent collection.

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