Best poetry I read in 2018

I continue to have no idea how to talk about poetry, but here are the collections of poems I liked best in 2018.

1: Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds

2: Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, Hayden Carruth

3: Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, Anne Carson

4: New Collected Poems, Tomas Tranströmer

5: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay

6: Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

7: Grace Notes, Rita Dove

8: Worshipful Company of Fletchers, James Tate

9: Passing Through, Stanley Kunitz

10: Our Andromeda, Brenda Shaughnessy

Up next: Best nonfiction and fiction that I read in 2018.