Discussed in this essay:

No Matter, by Jana Prikryl. Tim Duggan Books. 112 pages. $15.

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, by Jake Skeets. Milkweed Editions. 96 pages. $16.

The Twenty-Ninth Year, by Hala Alyan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 96 pages. $15.99.

A photograph by Adam Pape from his monograph, Dyckman Haze, which was published last year by MACK

Poetry at its best may speak to you no matter where or when you live. “There is no Frigate like a Book,” Emily Dickinson claimed, “to take us…