[New-Poetry] Cold Front weighs in with 2010 picks...

[David Graham]

My own tally would be:  of the 30 books noted, I've read just three (by Simic, Hayes, and Monson).  Of the remaining 27 poets, I believe I have read at least some work by just 13 of them.  

For a "best of" list this lengthy, that strikes me as pretty amazing--that I have not even heard of nearly half.  


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On Jan 5, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Bob Grumman wrote:

> On 1/5/2011 5:10 PM, jforjames at aol.com wrote:
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>> “These genres these borders these false distinctions / are where we stay at / in freedom’s way.” –Thomas Sayers Ellis, “As Segregation, As Us”
>> The poets of 2010 held genre-smashing visions, refreshing collisions with strangeness, communications from beyond. Here are our editorial picks for the Top 30 Poetry Books of 2010
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>> http://coldfrontmag.com/category/news
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> Nothing against the thirty Wilshberian picks, but I have to say the guy's idea of "genre-smashing vision" is a lot different from mine.  But, hey, he likes Issa (one of whose poems he has on another list of his), so I won't put him on my Enemies of Poetry List.
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> --Bob
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