The Volta’s Best Books of 2016
Fourteen of Our Favorite Books of 2016
Night (Nightboat Books)
by Etel Adnan
Spiral Staircase: Collected Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse)
by Hirato Renkichi (translated by Sho Sugita)
Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem)
by Simone White
Andes (Black Ocean)
by Tomaž Šalamun (translated by Jeffrey Young & Katarina Vladimirov Young)
Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected Poems (New Directions)
by Yoshimasu Gozo translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu, Hiroaki Sato, Eric Selland, Jeffrey Angles, Richard Arno, Derek Gromadzki, Sayuri Okamoto, Auston Stewart, Kyoko Yoshida and Jordan A. Y. Smith
Edited by Forrest Gander
Certain Magical Acts (Penguin)
by Alice Notley
Uncountry: a mythology (Noemi Press)
by Yanara Friedland
Violet Energy Ingots (Wave Books)
by Hoa Nguyen
Proxies: Essays Near Knowing (Nightboat Books)
by Brian Blanchfield
The Poet, The Lion, The Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All (Copper Canyon Press)
by C.D. Wright
Overpour (Action Books)
by Jane Wong
Border Towns (Dalkey Archive Press)
by C.S. Giscombe
the yesterday project (Sidebrow Books)
by Ben Doller & Sandra Doller
Calamities (Wave Books)
by Renee Gladman
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