50+ Of Your Favorite Contemporary Poetry Collections

50+ Of Your Favorite Contemporary Poetry Collections This giveaway is sponsored by Congotronic by Shane Book and Trickster by Randall Potts. In Book’s polyvocal poetry collection, he brandishes a particularly pleasing form of near-nonsense, mixing African folk history, hip-hop lyrics, and meditations on mind and body. . . . If certain passages challenge readers (“I am after after I am because because I am a burst of was”), they always reward with new, unusual experiences of language and meaning. Book blends the fashionable savvy of pop producer Pharrell Williams, the experimental poetics of Adam Fitzgerald (The Late Parade, 2013), and the disorienting strangeness of playwright Sarah Ruhl.â€"Booklist   Potts writes poems charged with an intense and loving empathy with the living and non-living things of the Earth and the spirit that animates them. His poems are grounded in images and borne aloft by the song of ancient and modern traditions. They are touched by the spirit that moves through the work of Merwin, Trakl, and Tarkovsky, a spirit that endows things with the luminous effects of golden sunlight scattered through leaves, illuminating darkness with hope.â€"Geoffrey Nutter, author, The Rose of January  and Christopher Sunset ____________________ For this giveaway, we asked for your favorite contemporary poetry collections- leaving the definition of contemporary up to you- and here are your answers! Time and Materials by Robert Hass Nights I Let the Tiger Get You by Elizabeth Cantwell Rookery by Traci Brimhall Sun by Michael Palmer King Me by Roger Reeves Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill The Fifty Minute Mermaid  by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Frameless Windows, Squares of Light by Cathy Song Jelly Roll by Kevin Young Sleeping on the Wing by Kenneth Koch and Kate Ferrell Pilgrim by David Whyte What the Living Do by Marie Howe Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times by Jo Shapcott and Matthew Sweeney Getting Stitches by Rudy K. Francisco The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje Gray Matter by Sarah Michas-Martin Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay Missing You, Metropolis by Gary Jackson Blowout by Denise Duhamel Crush by Richard Siken What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes? by Arlene Kim Senegal Taxi by Juan Felipe Herrera In Search of Midnight by Mike McGee The Madness Vase by Andrea Gibson Forgiveness Parade by Jeffery McDaniel Bellocqs Ophelia by Natasha Tretheway Gentleman Practice by Buddy Wakefield Dear Future Boyfriend by  Cristin OKeefe Aptowicz Bicentennial: Poems by Dan Chiasson Human Dark With Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones by Margaret Randall 10,000 Wallpapers by Matt Shears Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith Breaking Poems by  Suheir Hammad Bitters by Rebecca Seiferle Songs of a Clerk by Gary Beck The Silence of Doorways by Sharon Venezio God Particles by Thomas Lux Anne Stevensons Poems 1955-2005 Words for Empty and Words for Full by Bob Hicok Angle of Yaw by Ben Lerner Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni Slamma Lamma Ding Dong by Dan Leamen The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins Blind Huber by Nick Flynn Selected Poems by  Bob Schneider Now Youre the Enemy by James Allen Hall Essays Against Ruin by Brian Clements The Complete Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay Men in Groups by Aaron Smith Broetry by Brian McGackin New Shoes on a Dead Horse by Sierra DeMulder