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New poetry books for your summer reads
Take a lyrical hiatus from your less-than-literary beach reads
Some people like poetry, the Polish Noble Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska once wrote. Though with the wealth of verse available today, from presses both small and large, it’s hard to believe there isn’t at least one book of poems for everyone. Poetry with a science-fiction edge? It’s out there. Poem comics? That’s a burgeoning area. Erotic poetry? Obviously. Find one poet you love and the whole genre unfurls.
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These picks, by three phenomenal poets, may seem tame compared to novels fraught with vampires, apocalypses and BDSM but nonetheless showcase the humor, graceful lyricism and depths of emotion that will make you swoon for stanzas.

<em>Rome</em> by Dorothea Lasky (Liveright, $23.95)
Pick it up if: You want to read your friends’ diaries. Lasky writes so openly about her own spiritual and physical powers and weaknesses—as a woman, as a sexual being,
as someone who has watched more porn than you ever will—readers may experience a guilty sense of intrusion. But Lasky balances her violent, often bloody honesty with such delicate lines, such perfectly on-point questions about life, you’ll wish your journals sounded this profound.
Where to read it: On a beach where no one will see you blush.
Buy Rome by Dorothea Lasky on Amazon

<em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em> by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press, $20)
Where to read it: A empty train, with no one to scream at.
Buy Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine on Amazon

<em>Faithful and Virtuous Night</em> by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23)
Where to read it: In a gazebo, surrounded by narcissus blooms.
Buy Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück on Amazon

<em>Someone Else’s Wedding Vows</em> by Bianca Stone (Tin House, $14)
Where to read it: On a secret corner bench in the Met.
Buy Someone Else’s Wedding Vows by Bianca Stone on Amazon

<em>The Albertine Workout</em> by Anne Carson (New Directions, $10.95)
Where to read it: In a French café, eating a madeleine, of course.
Buy The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson on Amazon