Crystallography, Christian Bok
Glass, Irony, and God, Anne Carson
The Dolphin and Day by Day (selections), Robert Lowell
Dolls, Claire Millikin
Burying the Mountain, Shangyang Fang
In the Language of My Captor, Shane McCrae
frank: sonnets, Diane Seuss
All the Flowers Kneeling, Paul Tran
Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, Juan Felipe Herrera
Ajax, Sophocles
Trojan Women, Euripides
The Bacchae, Euripides (from 2021; listed now)
Iphigenia in Aulis, Euripides (from 2021; listed now)
Orestes, Euripides
Alceste, Euripides
Macbeth, Shakespeare
Coriolanus, Shakespeare (from 2021; listed now)
Pericles, Shakespeare (from 2021; listed now)
The NY Times has run an excellent article on greatness in poetry. It's always interesting to read NY Times on poetry -- there was a fascinating one about Jorie Graham's entrance to Harvard (Valhalla?) -- because NY Times believes in poetry, but is egoistic enough to be upset when it's confronted with something it doesn't understand. That's a very useful quality, because it respectfully/hesitantly calls a pear a pear, instead of some helium-filled blather. Maybe because of it, the article anointed only one great post-Eliot poet: Elizabeth Bishop. I'm pleased and agree. (There was some noise about Ashbery, but we'll see what happens 20 years after he's dead, which means in roughly 10 years. I mean, 21.) The criterion that article settled on for greatness is: “demonstrating the qualities that make poetry seem interesting and worthwhile to such a degree that subsequent practitioners of the art form have found her work a more useful resource than the work
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