In Review

Best Books of 2013
Drew Scott Swenhaugen

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Graham Foust. To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems. Flood Editions.
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Farnoosh Fathi. Great Guns. Canarium Books.
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Mary Ruefle. Trances of the Blast. Wave Books.
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Sampson Starkweather. The First 4 Books of Sampson Starkweather. Birds LLC.
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Amy Lawless. My Dead. Octopus Books.
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Frank Bidart. Metaphysical Dog. Macmillan: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Alfred Star Hamilton. A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind. The Song Cave Books.
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Joseph Ceravolo. Collected Poems. Wesleyan University Press.
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Ana Božičević. Rise in the Fall. Birds LLC.
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Paul Killebrew. Ethical Consciousness. Canarium Books.

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Drew Scott Swenhaugen co-curates the Bad Blood Reading Series, co-operates Poor Claudia and designs for Octopus Books. He received his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Portland, Ore.