Trapped in my office, surrounded by books, papers, and other sundries, I realize I have a bunch of pretty cool poetry collections lying around here. I’ll list them quickly here, in no particular order without annotations (or links: look ‘em up yourself!), saying only that if I put it here, I recommend it.
Sharon Dolin, Burn and Dodge
Scott Hightower, Natural Trouble
Kathy Fagan, The Charm
Terri Witek, Shipwreck Dress
Sandra Simonds, Warsaw Bikini
Rachel Hadas, River of Forgetfulness
Jane Satterfield, Assignation at Vanishing Point
Brendan Constantine, Letters to Guns (yes, Red Hen’s own)
Molly Peacock, Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems
Jean Gallagher, This Minute
Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning
Jeff Gundy, Deer Flies
Don Bogen, Luster
Basil Bunting, Complete Poems
Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems
David Lehman, ed. Great American Prose Poems
The One O’clock Poets, This Full Green Hour (shameless plug: this is my poetry group, and we’re reading Thursday, 1/21/10, 6pm at Cornelia Street Cafe)
Colette Inez, Eight Minutes from the Sun
….and I’ll close the list with my current favorite book about writing poems:
Kim Addonizio, Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within
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