Sky Lounge--thanks to you, Suzanne. I keep going back to the same poems and rereading them (You mentioned Bibbins a while back on your blog and I can't thank you enough)--and A Crash of Rhinos by Paisley Rekdal.
Oh, and Paul's Resurrection which I keep picking up to read a single poem at random, then completely sated, I put it back down again. His book and GC Waldrep's Goldbeater's Skin are the best money I've spent on poetry in a long time.
I'm reading: A Keepsake Storm by Gina Franco. (well, re-reading is more accurate.) I now open it randomly and read the first poem my eye sets upon. :-)
And yesterday I was also flipping through--I have no idea why this book was singing to me from the shelf--Jane Kenyon's Constance, between picking out bathtubs, vanities, and wondering if the toilet paper holder should (is supposed to?) match the sink and tub fixtures--a good sign that the renovation attic madness has begun, but the strangest thing happened--later in the day I bought a New Yorker (impulse buy) and inside was a poem by Donald Hall about visiting Jane's grave. It was actually a little creepy.
Your lists have reminded of some other collections I've been meaning to read, or have been meaning to return to. Thanks!
The World of Ten Thousand Things--Charles Wright Luck is Luck--Lucia Perillo Georgia Review Spring 2005 Beowulf--Heaney Translation Letters of Vincent Van Gogh Stuart Little--E. B. White
What a nice question, Suzanne. Rereading Mary Oliver's West Wind. Haven't finished Lorca's Collected Poems or his In Search of Duende. In the middle of The Game of Life, F.S. Shinn. And just about to start Animals in Translation, Grandin & JOhnson. Ann I could read Hirshfield anyday, anytime.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Matsuo Basho (in prep for a poem for the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the a-bomb on Hiroshima)
The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
The Dog Kubla Dreams My Life, Anne Kennedy
Nine Horses (again), Billy Collins
The Velocity of Dust, Gary J. Whitehead (just finished this 2004 Salmon Publishing beauty)
The New Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (been working my way through this one for about three months now, a couple pages a night)
Refuge at DeSoto Bend, Eamonn Wall
Shadows & Supposes, Gloria Vando (signed copy I purchased after hearing Gloria read at the Tucson Poetry Festival in April---she's one of the best readers of poetry I've seen)
New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver
New & Selected Poems, A.R. Ammons
The last two are staples in my poetry diet, books and poets I return to again and again for inspiration.
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Trying to decide which of the following I'm going to commit to and read all the way through:
Sky Lounge, Mark Bibbins
Sad Little Breathing Machine, Matthea Harvey
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Crush, Richard Siken
The Extravagant, Robert Baker
Carving Hawk, Maurice Kenny
Super Fudge by Judy Bloom to Olivia
Annie Dillard
The October Place by Jane Hirshfield
Babel by Barbara Hamby
Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub
Sky Lounge--thanks to you, Suzanne. I keep going back to the same poems and rereading them (You mentioned Bibbins a while back on your blog and I can't thank you enough)--and A Crash of Rhinos by Paisley Rekdal.
Oh, and Paul's Resurrection which I keep picking up to read a single poem at random, then completely sated, I put it back down again. His book and GC Waldrep's Goldbeater's Skin are the best money I've spent on poetry in a long time.
And you? What are you reading, Suzanne?
Hard Night, Christian Wiman
Taken With, John W Marshall
Your Time Has Come, Joshua Beckman
Yes, that's what I want to hear--thanks, Laurel--what are YOU reading, Suzanne?
"Saying The World", Peter Pereira
"Head of a Traveler", Nicholas Blake (this is literary comfort food; classic British mystery)
*lol*
I'm reading:
A Keepsake Storm by Gina Franco.
(well, re-reading is more accurate.) I now open it randomly and read the first poem my eye sets upon. :-)
And yesterday I was also flipping through--I have no idea why this book was singing to me from the shelf--Jane Kenyon's Constance, between picking out bathtubs, vanities, and wondering if the toilet paper holder should (is supposed to?) match the sink and tub fixtures--a good sign that the renovation attic madness has begun, but the strangest thing happened--later in the day I bought a New Yorker (impulse buy) and inside was a poem by Donald Hall about visiting Jane's grave. It was actually a little creepy.
Your lists have reminded of some other collections I've been meaning to read, or have been meaning to return to. Thanks!
Oh Suzanne I have been in a Jane Kenyon mood also and read the same poem in the New Yorker and flipped myself out thus I moved on to Hirschfield
The World of Ten Thousand Things--Charles Wright
Luck is Luck--Lucia Perillo
Georgia Review Spring 2005
Beowulf--Heaney Translation
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Stuart Little--E. B. White
Alison
What a nice question, Suzanne.
Rereading Mary Oliver's West Wind.
Haven't finished Lorca's Collected Poems or his In Search of Duende. In the middle of The Game of Life, F.S. Shinn. And just about to start Animals in Translation, Grandin & JOhnson.
Ann
I could read Hirshfield anyday, anytime.
I seem to be stuck on The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov.
Well I'm in the thick of an Innovation Studies seminar, so my books are a bit all over the place.
Technology:
Smart Mobs
Digital Game-based Learning
Poetry:
David Wagoner, Traveling Light
Russell Edson, The Tunnel
Prose:
Best American Short Stories 2004 and The Art of the Story
Poet in New York - Federico Garcia Lorca
In The Dawn Before Dark - Thomas Merton
Selected Poems - Marina Tsvetaeva
Shambhala Woman's Spirtual Poetry Anthology
Methinks it's a conspiracy of poets:
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Matsuo Basho (in prep for a poem for the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the a-bomb on Hiroshima)
The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
The Dog Kubla Dreams My Life, Anne Kennedy
Nine Horses (again), Billy Collins
The Velocity of Dust, Gary J. Whitehead (just finished this 2004 Salmon Publishing beauty)
The New Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (been working my way through this one for about three months now, a couple pages a night)
Refuge at DeSoto Bend, Eamonn Wall
Shadows & Supposes, Gloria Vando (signed copy I purchased after hearing Gloria read at the Tucson Poetry Festival in April---she's one of the best readers of poetry I've seen)
New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver
New & Selected Poems, A.R. Ammons
The last two are staples in my poetry diet, books and poets I return to again and again for inspiration.
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