Presenting a selection of the year's most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, these 75 selections include comments from the poets themselves, lending insight into their work. Among the authors featured here are Sharon Olds ("Best Friend Ballad"), Dean Young ("Spark Theory"), Ocean Vuong ("Reasons for Staying"), Charles Simic ("In the Lockdown"), and Erika L. Sanchez ("Departure"), as well as Li-Young Lee, Major Jackson, Yesenia Montilla, and Laura Kasischke.