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In the Spring-Summer 2020 issue of American Poets, Stephanie Burt reviews ten of the year’s most anticipated poetry collections featuring Anthony Cody, Mónica de la Torre, Natalie Diaz, Jane Hirshfield, Ellen Bass, Don Mee Choi, Deborah Paradez, Justin Phillip Reed, Francisco Aragón, and Yusef Komunyakaa.

The Malevolent Volume, Coffee House Press

The Malevolent Volume

By Justin Phillip Reed

Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn Publishing, 2020)

Borderland Apocrypha

By Anthony Cody

Year of the Dog (BOA Editions, 2020)

Year of the Dog

By Deborah Paredez

Postcolonial Love Poem

Postcolonial Love Poem

By Natalie Diaz

Indigo (Copper Canyon Press, 2020)

Indigo

DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020)

DMZ Colony

By Don Mee Choi

Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat Books, 2020)

Repetition Nineteen

By Mónica De la Torre

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Ledger

By Jane Hirshfield

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