The Volta Editors' Favorite Books
of the Last Decade or So

January 2022

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Joshua Marie Wilkinson: Disorientations: Groundings by Jay Wright
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Lisa Wells: In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps by Rob Schlegel
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Brandon Shimoda: A Moth Laid Its Eggs In My Armpit, And Then It Died by Ye Mimi, translated from Chinese by Steven Bradbury and Todd Klaiman
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Don Mee Choi: sur vie by Youna Kwak
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Sarah V. Schweig: Practice on Mountains by David Barton
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Sara Renee Marshall: M by Hannah Brooks-Motl
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Sally McCallum & Housten Donham: Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad by Gennady Gor, Dmitry Maksimov, Sergey Rudakov, Vladimir Sterligov, Pavel Zaltsman, and edited by Polina Barskova
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Sally McCallum & Housten Donham: Clarity Speaks of a Crystal Sea by Afton Wilky
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Chris Nealon: Cardboard House Press
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Tobi Kassim: The Great Medieval Yellows by Emily Wilson
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Sasha Hawkins: Violet Energy Ingots by Hoa Nguyen