As someone who has always – at least since I was 10 – been reading a lot of books at one time, it’s rare that I don’t find at least one of the current selection to be a long, thick, slog or otherwise deficient in some aspect. Right now, however, I am in that rarified space of only reading books that I think are terrific – good, if not great & really more of the latter than the former. So I just thought I’d say thanks to all of these authors for making this magical moment come about. Books involved include

• Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
  
• Elizabeth Willis, Alive: New and Selected Poems
  
• J.H. Prynne, Poems
  
• Ken Taylor, Self-Portrait as Joseph Cornell
  
• Tomaž Šalamun, Soy Realidad
  
• Mathias Svalina, The Wine-Dark Sea
  
• Timothy Yu, 100 Chinese Silences
  
• Lyn Hejinian, The Unfollowing
  
• Khaty Xiong, Poor Anima
  
• Chimimanda Ngozi Adiche, Amerikanah
  
• Peter Middleton, Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry