Year-End Lists

Coldfront: Top 40 Poetry Books of 2012

1. Engine Empire
   Cathy Park Hong
2. Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
   D.A. Powell
3. Snowflake / different streets
   Eileen Myles
4. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
   Patricia Smith
5. Our Andromeda
   Brenda Shaughnessy
6. To Keep Love Blurry
   Craig Morgan Teicher
7. Bewilderment

   New Poems and Translations
   David Ferry
8. Nice Weather
   Frederick Seidel
9. Further Adventures in Monochrome
   John Yau
10. Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast
    Hannah Gamble
11. Bright Brave Phenomena
    Amanda Nadelberg
12. me and Nina
    Monica A. Hand
13. Balloon Pop Outlaw Black
    Patricia Lockwood
14. Gravesend
    Cole Swensen
15. Slow Lightning
    Eduardo C. Corral
16. Meme
    Susan Wheeler
17. Partyknife
    Dan Magers
18. A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon

    New (Soma)tics
    CAConrad
19. If I Should Say I Have Hope
    Lynn Melnick
20. Thunderbird
    Dorothea Lasky
21. The Glimmering Room
    Cynthia Cruz
22. ROTC Kills
    John Koethe
23. Grand & Arsenal
    Kerri Webster
24. Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless
    Matt Hart
25. China Cowboy
    Kim Gek Lin Short
26. Fjords, Vol. 1
    Zachary Schomburg
27. Vanitas, Rough
    Lisa Russ Spaar
28. Mother Was a Tragic Girl
    Sandra Simonds
29. Exit, Civilian
    Idra Novey
30. The Fact of the Matter
    Sally Keith
31. Madame X
    Darcie Dennigan
32. Victory
    Ben Kopel
33. The Ground
    Rowan Ricardo Phillips
34. Quick Question
    John Ashbery
35. Robinson Alone
    Kathleen Rooney
36. Charms Against Lightning
    James Arthur
37. how to survive a hotel fire
    Angela Veronica Wong
38. The Game of Boxes
    Catherine Barnett
39. Hider Roser
    Ben Mirov
40. I Live in a Hut
    S.E. Smith