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Best poetry books of 2014

ALONZO FELIX FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

CITIZEN: An American Lyric

By Claudia Rankine

Graywolf, 160 pp., paperback, $20

BEDOUIN OF THE LONDON EVENING:

Collected Poems

By Rosemary Tonks

Bloodaxe, 153 pp., paperback, $24.70

A C.H. SISSON READER

By C.H. Sisson

Carcanet, 352 pp., $33.99

BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition

By Paul Celan, translated, from the German, by Pierre Joris.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

736 pp., $40

IF THE TABLOIDS ARE TRUE WHAT ARE YOU?

By Matthea Harvey

Graywolf, 160 pp., $25

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By Sina Queyras

Coach House, 104 pp., paperback, $17.95

PATTER

By Douglas Kearney

Red Hen, 96 pp., paperback, $17.95

MOTHERLAND, FATHERLAND, HOMELANDSEXUALS

By Patricia Lockwood

Penguin, 80 pp., paperback, $20

NEW SELECTED POEMS

By Les Murray

Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

336 pp., $30

ECODEVIANCE: (SOMA)TICS FOR THE FUTURE WILDERNESS

By CA Conrad

Wave, 160 pp., paperback, $22

ANGELS OF THE AMERICLYPSE: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing

Edited by Carmen Giménez Smith and John Chávez

Counterpath, 352 pp., paperback, $35

[INSERT] BOY

By Danez Smith

YesYes, 128 pp., paperback, $16

COLLECTED POEMS

By Mark Strand

Knopf, 544 pp., $30

THE WHOLE & RAIN-DOMED UNIVERSE

By Colette Bryce

Pan Macmillan, 96 pp., paperback, $16.95