glitterforbreakfast asked: you always post the best poetry! I would like to expand my library...and good poetry recommendations?

i really like the ‘best american poetry’ series published each year for finding new poets & new poems from old poets. some of my favorite collections:

• crush, richard siken
• what the living do, marie howe
• refusing heaven, jack gilbert
• let us compare mythologies, leonard cohen
• any and all margaret atwood
• the selected levis, larry levis
• words for empty and words for full, bob hicok
• i have to go back to 1994 and kill a girl, karyna mcglynn
• the voice at 3:00am, charles simic