Doty (and overall series editor David Lehman) provide some wonderful observations about poetry (‘to write poetry, to read it, to go to poetry readings, is a way of being in the world’; ‘Our poems are haunted by that unknown territory on the other side of a wall too high to climb or see over.’) and chose 75 poems for this annual volume.  Famous and unknown poets alike contribute.  My favorite touches include one poet who determined line length according to the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…) and another who started his poem with a swipe at Wordsworth ‘The daffodils can go fuck themselves…’.