I wouldn’t say every book on Amazon’s list of best-selling poetry deserves the title. It begins with Seuss, then print and Kindle versions of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, some Mary Oliver titles, the Shel Silverstein classics, and that weird book of rhymes Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote. But just past Homer’s The Odyssey is a contemporary masterpiece: Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic.

This book is proof that in 2019 great poetry can enjoy tremendous popularity.