For those who contributed, have been following or are just interested in the idea, the Near Perfect Books of Poetry list has hit 50 titles. I've begun to receive contributions from offline readers of Lilliput Review, so the list will continue to grow as long as I continue to receive nominations. Suggestions may be sent to lilliput review at gmail dot com and for your efforts you will receive the two current issues of Lilliput Review for free. If you are currently a subscriber, your subscription will be extended by two issues. So, here's the 50 near perfect books of poetry and good reading ...
The List
Chrysanthemum Love by Fay Aoyagi
Basho And His Interpreters by Makoto Ueda
Silence In The Snowy Fields by Robert Bly
The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan
Thirst by Patrick Carrington
And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Variations by Bill Deemer
Miracles of the Sainted Earth by Victoria Edwards Tester
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hand by Martin Espada
Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlighetti
West-Running Brook by Robert Frost
Essential Haiku edited by Robert Hass
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
A Few Flies and I: Haiku by Issa
Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac
The Haiku Anthology, 3rd edition, edited by Cor van den Heuvel
Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison
book of resurrection by mark hartenbach
My Life by Lyn Hejinian
Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
Pleasure Dome by Yusef Komunyakaa
For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
Verso by Pattie McCarthy
dogwood & honeysuckle by john martone
The Vixen by W. S. Merwin
Forever Home by Lenard D. Moore
The Dillinger Books (various) by Todd Moore
100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
Strike Sparks by Sharon Olds
The Ink Dark Moon by Onono Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat, by Hosai Ozaki, translated by Hiroaki Sato
Raising the Dead by Ron Rash
The Waiting Room at the End of the World by Jeff Rath
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese tr. by Kenneth Rexroth
New Poems (1908), the Other Part by Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Snow)
The Concrete River by Luis Rodriquez
Say Uncle by Kay RyanChicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
Grass and Tree Cairn by Santoka, translated by Hiroaki Sato
The Morning of a Poem by James Schuyler
Selected Poems by Anne Sexton
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Elements of San Joaquin by Gary Soto
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
Collected Poems - Dylan Thomas
Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
The Prelude - William Wordsworth
The Tower by W. B. Yeats
best,
Don
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7 comments:
Great list, Don! I've already added a few of those books to my "to-read" list, and found some authors I never would have otherwise discovered.
I've only read about five or six of these. Man, a lot of good reading ahead of me. I'm gonna see what I can find next time I put in a book order.
Glad you like the list. I've got some reading to do here myself, lots to catch up on.
A new title was added this morning, starting on the next 50.
Don
This is a great list. I see about a dozen to add to the to-be-read pile beside my rocking chair on the front porch.
Thanks, RF. If you have a favorite poetry book or know of a near perfect collection, just let me know and I'll add it to the list and send you the two current issue of Lilliput Review free.
best,
Don
Wonderful, thougtful list. I have an ashamedly as yet unread copy of a collection of Harrison's poetry. I'm planning on buying a copy of Ginsberg's collected poems soon, though, and you've encouraged me to add some of these to my list.
j0aJ34:
This list will keep growing, if slowly. Check back occasionally. Ginsberg's "Kaddish," poem for his mother, is very powerful.
Don @Issa's Untidy Hut
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