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Found: Best List of Best Books of 2018

Originally Published: November 30, 2018

Looks like BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics)) might be the first to make a "Best Books of 2018" list that's caught our eyes; and they have good taste (that, and poets are writing in excellent realms): Anne Boyer's A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Leslie Kaplan's Excess — The Factory (Commune Editions) are both here. The full list, if you have reading time on your hands:

Anne Boyer | A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Leslie Kaplan | Excess — The Factory (Commune Editions)
Mark Fisher | K-Punk (Repeater)
Bertolt Brecht | The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht (W.W. Norton)
Wendy Trevino | Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions)
Lola Ridge | To the Many (Little Island Press)
Auguste Blanqui | The Blanqui Reader | Political Writings (Verso)
Jackie Wang | Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e))
Roberto Ohrt, Wolfgang Scheppe | The Most Dangerous Game (Merve Verlag)
Arthur Rimbaud | Korrespondenz, Briefe, Texte und Dokumente (Matthes & Seitz Berlin)
Nathalie Quintane | Un oeil en moins (P.O.L.)
Fred Moten | Stolen Life & The Universal Machine (Duke University Press)
Pavel Arseniev | Reported Speech (Cikada Press)
Rae Armantrout | Wobble (Wesleyan University Press)
Nat Raha | Of Sirens, Body & Faultlines (Boiler House Press)

More enthusiasms to be read, to be sure, at BLACKOUT.