may not have but must...
Here’s the tag:
Five poetry collections you may not have read but certainly must:
Kathryn Stripling Byer / Wildwood Flower (LSU, 1992)
Tory Dent / What Silence Equals (Persea, 1993)
Brigit Pegeen Kelly / Song (BOA, 1995)
Wayne Koestenbaum / Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender
(Persea, 1994)
Robert Morgan / Groundwork (Gnomon, 1979)
The collections, for whatever reason, should be a bit off the beaten path. And need not have caused the earth to open and swallow you whole.
Tag: Amy, James, Suzanne, C. E., Ivy, Emilie, Jilly, Laurel, Peter, Rae, Pamela, Collin, Sandra, Sarah, Melissa, Jenni, Dennis, Ms Peach, Nick, Christine, Jill, Nicole, Cogresha, GG, Helen
24 comments:
I second that you surely MUST read the Dent, Kelly, and Koestenbaum! Esp. that Koestenbaum. It is amazing. Thanks for the tag. Be back in a moment.
Sam - Thanks for asking and here's my list. If you see anything on it that you agree is a must read, please let me know.
Thomas Hardy / Winter Words in Various Moods and Meters (1928)
Kenneth Koch / The Art of Love (1975)
Wallace Stevens / Harmonium (1923)
Allen Ginsberg / Howl and Other Poems (1955)
Robert Creeley / For Love (1962)
Interesting. I would call all of those must reads, Dennis, but I wouldn't say they're off the beaten path. Maybe Creeley's or Hardy's - maybe. But not the others. They're mainstream or very high profile, and nearly always listed near the top.
Sam - that's because I'm still quite the novice when it comes to even knowing where the "path" is. But I'm trying! I guess I should get some more mainstream under my belt before I go off wandering . . .
Thanks for the invitation.
Sam,
You have a good list here. I don't know the Koestenbaum book, but it sounds like I'd better find it. Haven't read What Silence Equals, either, though I would have to say Hiv, Mon Amour is one of the best books of the last couple of decades of the century just past. Glad to find Robert Morgan on your list. Red Owl might be my favorite of his earlier books, but I wouldn't want to be without Groundwork.
My list, for a variety of reasons:
1. Ice, Mouth, Song / Rachel Contreni Flynn
2. Love Alone / Paul Monette
3. Lost and Found / Jeff Daniel Marion
4. Edge / Claire Malroux (tr. Marilyn Hacker)
5. Gorse Fires / Michael Longley
Five poetry collections you may not have read but certainly must:
(in order of publication)
Dennis Sampson, Forgiveness, Milkweed Editions, 1990.
Jane Mead, The Lord and the General Din of the World, Sarabande Books, 1996.
Christine Garren, Among the Monarchs, University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Darrell B. Grayson, Against Time, Mercy Seat Press, 2005.
Evie Shockley, a half-red sea, Carolina Wren Press, 2006.
Helen Losse
http://helenl.wordpress.com/
Ivy, that is a great list, especially Radish King.
And James - Marion's Lost and Found... brilliant. Also, Monette's.
Helen, I really like Meade's and Shockley's.
Ditto on deadmule's Mead and the Shockley. I love this tag...Can't wait to give mine!
S-- the short list, 'splainey at the blogs. this was SO much fun! easier than movies, too!
~n~
Kathryn Stripling Byer -- Catching Light (LSU, 2002)
Barbara Jane Reyes -- Poeta San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005)
Earl S. Braggs -- Crossing Tecumseh Street (Anhinga, 2003)
Jen Tynes -- The End of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press, 2006)
Denise Duhamel -- Two and Two (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2005)
Nicole, great group. Byer is underrated, don't you think-- Duhamel is wonderful. Pleased to see Reyes on your list.
Poeta En San Francisco - Barbara Jane Reyes
Singing Yet - Stan Rice
Utterance: A Museology of Kin - Cherryl Floyd-Miller
Late - Cecilia Woloch
Whore - Sarah MaClay
Collin: so glad you included Late by Woloch. I was going to, but Emanuel trumped it!
Here's my list:
Bad Judgement, Cathleen Calbert
Music and Suicide, Jeff Clark
Black Candle, Chitra Divakaruni
The Anchorage, Mark Wunderlich
Then, Suddenly, Lynn Emanuel
Thanks for doing this. I LOVE to know what people are reading; it helps me discover new (to me) voices.
Collin, I like your list. Good to see Reyes and Rice.
Your list, Melissa, is very interesting. Especially like Calbert and Clark. Good.
And Deborah, thanks for stopping by. It's an interesting group of collections I'm seeing.
Done on my blog.
cool tag, sam. i will sleep on it, and browse these.
Great lists Pamela and GG. Strong titles.
I will sleep on this too. How delightful to have been invited, and to tucker in, drift off with dreams of favorite poems.
Instead of Beauty Sleep maybe we should all invoke Poetry Sleep. Sometimes my favorite poems come from dreams as it is.
Thanks again for the invite...
MP
Suzanne tagged me.
Done, on my blog.
finally up at my house, too.
up on my blog
Galway Kinnell / The Book of Nightmares
Robert Penn Warren / Audubon: A Vision
Evan S. Connell / Notes From A Bottle Found On The Beach At Carmel
Robert Wrigley / Lives of the Animals
Larry Levis / The Widening Spell of the Leaves
Sarah and Greg - thanks for your lists. Great works. Good to see Gilbert and Equi.
And Cogresha - Connell's work is wonderful. Also Kinnell's book - and especially Levis - That book, like all of his work - strong.
I've had days of beauty sleep, and nothing was getting any prettier, especially my list of things to do!
Anyway, I put up my list. On my
Read it and Weep Blog.
I'm thinking it isn't exactly what you asked for,
but it IS what made it to the page.
Your list was HARD, narrowing down favorites!
Care to start a new tag on books in verse?
Let me know. I'd be interested in reading what you all have to say...
Thank YOU for stopping by my blog, and for the invitation.
I noticed you said nothing about The Real Mother Goose...LOL. Can't help it. I love that book.
Your comments were very helpful, thank you for including me.
MP
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