At the end of my previous post, in which I listed and briefly discussed some of my favorite books of poetry published in 2007, I promised or threatened that there were more lists to come. I truly do love lists, and once I started making them I found it hard to stop. So here are a couple of other lists pertaining to books of poetry published in 2007, this time sans commentary, for reasons that will become obvious if you look beneath the fold.
Some Books Published in 2007 by Poets Whose Work I Love That I Own But Haven’t Yet Read
John Ash, The Parthian Stations, Talisman House
Jasper Bernes, Starsdown, ingirumimusnocteetconsymimurigni
Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets, Counterpath Press
Amy England, Victory and Her Opposites, Tupelo Press
Noah Eli Gordon, Novel Pictorial Noise, HarperCollins
Brian Henry, The Stripping Point, Counterpath Press
Laura Mullen, Murmur, Futurepoem Books
Bin Ramke, Tendril, Omnidawn
Cole Swensen, The Glass Age, Alice James Books
Some Books Published in 2007 By Poets Whose Work I Love That I Don’t Own But Want to Read (donations welcome)
Graham Foust, Necessary Stranger, Flood Editions
Robert Hass, Time and Materials, Ecco Press
Christian Hawkey, Citizen Of, Wave Books
Donald Revell, A Thief of Strings, Alice James Books
Martha Ronk, Vertigo, Coffee House Press
G.C. Waldrep, Disclamor, BOA Editions
Some Books of Poetry Published in 2007 That I Might Love But Haven’t Heard About
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Some Books of Poetry Published in 2007 That You Might Love But Might Not Have Heard About:
Posted By: John A. Blackard on January 19, 2008 at 1:41 pm1. “The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets”, edited by Dominic Luxford
2. Stanley Plumly. “Old Heart”. (ok, you probably have)
3. Valentina Gnup. “Winter Octaves”.
4. John Blackard. “October Queen”.
Thanks for your list, Reginald, and the opportunity to share mine.
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Some Books of Poetry I Wish I Could Like But Have to List Anyway :
Posted By: Henry Gould on January 19, 2008 at 11:38 pmPaul Fretherbie, The Bugs in My Toll Booth
Jean Franchet, Spare Me Your Laundry
Inigo Chesswit, The Western Chronicles : a Saga
Myrth Trepidation, Leeches Ate My Trope
Tellworth V. Budgie, My Father, My Feather ; Selected Long Poems and Some Shorter Verse
Rob Gurney, Fry This Book : A Sonnet Sequence
Sandra Night O”Dell, Smelling the Amaranth
Dirk McKendrie, Smelting Tang Dynasty in My Sleep
Jennifer Longworthy, Poem for My Trust Fund Advisor
Mimi E. LaPrunt, Bliss Is
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Dear John and Henry,
Posted By: Reginald Shepherd on January 21, 2008 at 4:15 pmThanks for your complementary and contrasting lists. One thing John’s list highlights is just how fractured the poetry worlds are (clearly there’s not only one, as I’ve discussed on my blog in my post “The Mirage That We Call ‘Poetry’”). Of the authors he mentions, the only one I know is Stanley Plumly (I haven’t read much of his work, but I’ve liked what I’ve read), whom I didn’t know had a new book. I’ve heard of The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, but all I know of it is that I’m not in it. (I’m no self-abnegating saint.)
Perhaps because of the fractured, not to say balkanized, state of the poetry worlds, it took me a little to realize that Henry’s list is a joke, and a good one, especially since the degree of exaggeration and distortion is not as great as one would want it to be. I can imagine some of these books actually existing.
Speaking of imagining books, Alan Michael Parker’s 2006 Tupelo Press anthology The Imaginary Poets, which I have also not read, features twenty-two poets “translating” and writing about poets whom they have made up. It’s a fascinating idea, but I find it hard enough being one poet, let alone more than one. The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, besides publishing poems under his own name in English and in Portuguese, also published under the names of three poetic alter-egos: Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro, and Ricardo Reis, each with his own distinctive style and separate career.
The idea of a list of real books that one wanted to like or felt one should like is a good one, but I don’t plan to compile one. I have enough trouble in my life as it is.
Thanks for reading and commenting, and take good care.
peace and poetry,
Reginald
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One Book of Poetry Published in 2007 That You Might Love And Could Probably Get For Free Since You Share A Publisher:
Posted By: Sean Casey on January 24, 2008 at 11:04 amEdward Field, After the Fall: Poems Old and New (Pitt)
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