100 Near Perfect Books of Poetry
This page grew out of a number of postings on the Lilliput Review blog, Issa's Untidy Hut. The following list is culled from those postings and has become something of an ongoing project. If you have a suggestion of a title of a perfect or near perfect book of poems for this list and would like to receive the two current issues of Lillie for free (or have your current subscription extended), send your suggestion, along with your mailing address, to lilliputreview at gmail dot com (spelled out to avoid spam bots) or to the Lilliput snail mail address in the sidebar to the right.
The List
Chrysanthemum Love by Fay Aoyagi
Pencil Flowers by Johnny Baranski
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
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck by Charles Bukowski
Thirst by Patrick Carrington
Places/Everyone by Jim Daniels
And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Variations by Bill Deemer
Revolutionary Letters by Diane Di Prima
Griffon by Stephen Dobyns
Hello La Jolla by Ed Dorn
Miracles of the Sainted Earth by Victoria Edwards Tester
Things Stirring Together or Far Away by Larry Eiger
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hand by Martin Espada
Against the Forgetting by Hans Faverey
Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlighetti
West-Running Brook by Robert Frost
Poet in New York by Frederico Garcia Lorca (trans. by B. Bellitt)
The Haiku Anthology, 3rd edition, edited by Cor van den Heuvel
Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison
book of resurrection by mark hartenbach
Essential Haiku edited by Robert Hass
My Life by Lyn Hejinian
Working on My Death Chant by Albert Huffstickler
Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
A Few Flies and I: Haiku by Issa
Jade Mountain: anthology of Chinese Poetry, ed. by W. Bynner
Lost World by Randall Jarrell
The Beginning of the End by Robinson Jeffers
Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac
The Saint of Letting Small Fish Go by Eliot Khalil Wilson
Knock Upon Silence by Carolyn Kizer
The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight
Geography of the Forehead by Ron Koertge
Pleasure Dome by Yusef Komunyakaa
The Blood of the Air by Philip Lamantia
O Taste and See by Denise Levertov
The Sorrow Dance by Denise Levertov
What Work Is by Philip Levine
For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
Verso by Pattie McCarthy
dogwood & honeysuckle by john martone
ordinary fool by john martone
Asian Figures by W. W. Merwin
The Vixen by W. S. Merwin
Forever Home by Lenard D. Moore
The Dillinger Books (various) by Todd Moore
Naked Poetry: Recent American Poetry, ed. by Stephen Berg
Next Room of the Dream by Howard Nemerov
The Granite Pail by Lorine Niedecker
100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
100 Poems from the Chinese, ed. by Kenneth Rexroth
The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds
Strike Sparks by Sharon Olds
The Distances by Charles Olson
In Cold Hell, In Thicket by Charles Olson
Spearmint and Rosemary by Charles Olson
The Ink Dark Moon by Onono Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, -translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
Primitive by George Oppen
Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat by Hosai Ozaki, translated by Hiroaki Sato
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Droles de Journal by Carl Rakoski
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 Ryan
Poems of a Mountain Home by Saigyo
The Kingdom by Frank Samperi
Quadrifariam by Frank Samperi
Spiritual Necessity by Frank Samperi
Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
Grass and Tree Cairn by Santoka, translated by Hiroaki Sato
The Morning of a Poem by James Schuyler
Buffalo Head Solos by Tim Seibles
Hammerlock by Tim Seibles
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
Goodstone by Fred Voss
Argonaut Rose by Diane Wakoski
Cap of Darkness by Diane Wakoski
Collected Greed Parts 1-13 by Diane Wakoski
Inside the Blood Factory by Diane Wakoski
Scenes of Life at the Capital by Philip Whalen
Severance Pay by Philip Whalen
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Spring and All by William Carlos Williams
The Prelude by William Wordsworth
Sinking of Clay City by Robert Wrigley
Littlefoot by Charles Wright
The Tower by W.B. Yeats