and Opinions of Oscar Brown Jr. (Oyster Knife Publishing) Charles Bukowski, The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems (Ecco) Ana Castillo, Watercolor Women/Opaque Men in Verse (Curbstone Press) Adrian Castro, Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time (Coffee House Press) Dan Chiasson, Natural History: Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year" Henri Cole, Vingt-Deux Poèmes(Yvon Lambert, Paris) Billy Collins, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems () Mark Doty, School of the Arts, HarperCollins Forrest Gander, Eye Against Eye (New Directions) Jorie Graham, Overlord: Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year" Suheir Hammad, ZaatarDiva Allison Hedge Coke, Off-Season City Pipe Coffee House Press Michael Hofmann, translator, Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems by Durs Grünbein, German, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux John Hollander, editor, Poems Bewitched and Haunted Paul Hoover, Poems in Spanish (Omnidawn Publishing) June Jordan, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press), posthumous Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows (Copper Canyon Press) Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems (W. W. Norton) Laurie Lamon, The Fork Without Hunger, CavanKerry Press James McMichael, Capacity, a book-length poem and finalist for the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry W. S. Merwin: Migration: New and Selected Poems, awarded the National Book Award for Poetry this year; Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press Present Company, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press Translator: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a New Verse Translation, New York: Knopf W. K. Lawrence, State of Love and Trust David Lehman, editor, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner), an anthology William Logan, The Whispering Gallery Richard Loranger, Poems for Teeth (We Press) Claire Lux and John Most, Atelier (AQP Collective) W. S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year" Ange Mlinko, Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 2005), winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series Rusty Morrison, Whethering, University Press of Colorado, January, Sharon Olds, Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980–2002 (Knopf) Hans Ostrom The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006. Dog Ear Publishing. Jason Shinder, editor, The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later, essays on the impact of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" on American literature and culture; Farrar, Straus and Giroux Patti Smith, Auguries of Innocence Tony Tost, World Jelly Brian Turner, Here, Bullet (Alice James Books), war poetry Richard Wilbur,