This will be thoroughly negligent and absolutely incomplete. Some of these are new; some are from my ever-growing wish I could get to every book I like in a sort of Faustian manner list. In no particular order, rhyme, reason, or otherwise here are just ten:
Cleopatra: A Life– Stacy Schiff
The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century – Chris Nealon
Poeta en San Francisco – Barbara Jane Reyes
Herso: An Heirship in Waves – Susana Gardner
The Black Automaton – Douglas Kearney
Stealth– Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton
Event Factory– Renee Gladman
The Cows – Lydia Davis
Time of Sky & Castles in the Air– Ayane Kawata (trans. Sawako Nakayasu)
Illuminations– Arthur Rimbaud (trans. John Ashbery)