American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology

Suggestions for Further Reading

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING There are many excellent resources on contemporary American poetry. References include The International Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses and the similar butlesscomprehensiveTheDirectoryofPoetryPublishers.Thetwobestmagazinesthat feature news about poetry and poets, interviews, general articles, criticism, etc. are the Writer’s Chronicle and Poets & Writers Magazine. Web sites from The Academy of AmericanPoets(www.poets.org),PoetryDaily(www.poems.com),andVerseDaily (www.versedaily.org) sample poems from current books and magazines and much more. The first part of the following list includes poets and books—not all of them American—that have been most influential for contemporary American poetry. The list contains many of the best poets of the last hundred years, and everything onitisa“mustread”foranypoetryfan. The second part is a fairly comprehensive but not exhaustive list—the first of its kind, so far as I know—of mainly contemporary American poets very much worth knowing. Titles published by University of Pittsburgh Press as part of a prize series are so designated. A full list of titles in these prize series is available at www .upress.pitt.edu. The books I have recommended here are the most recent or the best and most characteristic examples of the authors’ work. My advice is to take this as a checklist and guide for browsing—“browsing” because most of us can’t readeverything,andbecausepoetryisanotoriouslysubjectiveartforthereader. Finally, I’ve included a few recommendations for readable and important critical works on poetry. These are just brief samplings, but serve as a beginning for thoseinterestedinfindingoutmore. No one can tell you what will do it for you, but if you look you’ll find works in thislistthatwillchangeyourlife. Essential Books of Poetry W.H.Auden—SelectedPoems ElizabethBishop—CompletePoems RobertBly—TheFifties;TheSixties;EatingtheHoneyofWords:NewandSelectedPoems GwendolynBrooks—TheWorldofGwendolynBrooks;Blacks ConstantineCavafy—C.P.Cavafy: CollectedPoems 363 4 suggestions for further reading e.e.cummings—50Poems;100SelectedPoemsbye.e.cummings EmilyDickinson—TheCompletePoemsofEmilyDickinson T.S.Eliot—T.S.Eliot:SelectedPoems RobertFrost—RobertFrost:SelectedPoems AllenGinsberg—TheFallofAmerica;HowlandOtherPoems;KaddishandOtherPoems: 1958–1960 ThomasHardy—TheSelectedPoemsofThomasHardy NazimHikmet—PoemsofNazimHikmet A.E.Housman—AShropshireLad LangstonHughes—SelectedPoemsofLangstonHughes EtheridgeKnight—TheEssentialEtheridgeKnight PhilipLarkin—HighWindows;TheWhitsunWeddings PhilipLevine—TheNamesoftheLost:Poems;WhatWorkIs;TheSimpleTruth RobertLowell—LordWeary’sCastle andTheMillsoftheKavanaughs EdnaSt.VincentMillay—EdnaSt.VincentMillay:SelectedPoems MarianneMoore—CompletePoems PabloNeruda—NerudaandVallejo:SelectedPoems FrankO’Hara—TheSelectedPoemsofFrankO’Hara;LunchPoems KennethPatchen—SelectedPoems SylviaPlath—Ariel,PoemsbySylviaPlath EzraPound—SelectedPoemsofEzraPound;ABCofReading AdrienneRich—TheFactofaDoorframe:PoemsSelectedandNew1950–1984 RainerMariaRilke—TheSelectedPoetryofRanierMariaRilke (trans.StephenMitchell); LetterstoaYoungPoet GeraldStern—LuckyLife;TheRedCoal;ThisTime:NewandSelectedPoems WallaceStevens—SelectedPoems WaltWhitman—TheCompletePoems RichardWilbur—NewandCollectedPoems WilliamCarlosWilliams—SelectedPoems JamesWright—SelectedPoems(ed.RobertBlyandAnneWright) WilliamButlerYeats—SelectedPoemsofWilliamButlerYeats 364 4 suggestions for further reading Recommended Books of Poetry KimAddonizio—TellMe;WhatIsThisThingCalledLove:Poems Ai—Cruelty/KillingFloor;Vice:NewandSelectedPoems;Dread:Poems ElizabethAlexander—TheVenusHottentot:Poems ShermanAlexie—OneStickSong AghaShahidAli—TheCountryWithoutaPostOffice:Poems A.R.Ammons—TheSelectedPoems;Garbage:apoem MaggieAnderson—Windfall:NewandSelectedPoems NinAndrews—TheBookofOrgasms RalphAngel—ExceptionsandMelancholies:Poems1986–2006 MayaAngelou—TheCompleteCollectedPoems JohnAshbery—Self-PortraitinaConvexMirror;SelectedPoems RenéeAshley—Salt MargaretAtwood—SelectedPoems JimmySantiagoBaca—BlackMesaPoems DavidBaker—TheTruthaboutSmallTowns:Poems AngelaBall—NightClerkattheHotelofBothWorlds,DonaldHallPrize(AWP) ColemanBarks—GourdSeed:Poems;TheEssentialRumi (trans.) DorothyBarresi—ThePost-RaptureDiner;RougePulp QuanBarry—Asylum,StarrettPrize JanBeatty—MadRiver,StarrettPrize;Boneshaker RobinBecker—TheHorseFair:Poems;DomainofPerfectAffection MarvinBell—Nightworks:Poems1962–2002 AprilBernard—Psalms;SwanElectric:Poems CharlesBernstein—GirlyMan WendellBerry—TheSelectedPoemsofWendellBerry JohnBerryman—77DreamSongs FrankBidart—IntheWesternNight:CollectedPoems1965–1990 LindaBierds—FirstHand PeterBlair—TheDivineSalt 365 4 suggestions for further reading RichardBlanco—CityofaHundredFires,StarrettPrize LouiseBogan—TheBlueEstuaries:Poems1923–1968 MichelleBoisseau—TremblingAir:Poems EavanBoland—TheLostLand PhilipBooth—Lifelines:SelectedPoems1950–1999 Laure-AnneBosselaar—TheHourBetweenDogandWolf DavidBottoms—WaltzingthroughtheEndtime LucieBrock-Broido—AHunger;TroubleinMind:Poems JosephBrodsky—CollectedPoemsinEnglish OlgaBroumas—Rave:Poems1975–1999 JoelBrouwer—Centuries ChristopherBuckley—Sky;AndtheSea CharlesBukowski—BurninginWater,DrowninginFlame MichaelBurkard—RubyforGrief ChristopherBursk—TheImprobableSwervingsofAtoms,DonaldHallPrize(AWP) AnthonyButts—MaleHysteria NickCarbó—SecretAsianMan HaydenCarruth—Brothers,ILovedYouAll:Poems1969–1977;TheSelectedPoetryof HaydenCarruth AnneCarson—MenintheOffHours RaymondCarver—ANewPathtotheWaterfall;AllofUs:TheCollectedPoems LornaDeeCervantes—Emplumada SandraCisneros—LooseWoman AmyClampitt—TheKingfisher;Westward KillarneyClary—ByCommonSalt;PotentialStranger DavidClewell—TheLowEndofHigherThings LucilleClifton—BlessingtheBoats:NewandSelectedPoems1988–2000 HenriCole—TheVisibleMan:Poems;MiddleEarth:Poems WandaColeman—OstinatoVamps:Poems BillyCollins—TheArtofDrowning;Picnic,Lightning VictorContoski—Homecoming 366 4 suggestions for further reading JaneCooper—TheFlashboat AlfredCorn—Contradictions GregoryCorso—TheHappyBirthdayofDeath MarkCox—Thirty-SevenYearsfromtheStone;NaturalCauses HartCrane—TheCompletePoemsofHartCrane RobertCreeley—SelectedPoems JimDaniels—Places/Everyone;M-80 KateDaniels—TheWhiteWave,StarrettPrize;TheNiobePoems CharddeNiord—NightMowing CarlDennis—PracticalGods ToiDerricotte—Captivity;Tender JamesDickey—TheWholeMotion:CollectedPoems1945–1992 DeborahDigges—Trapeze DianeDiPrima—RevolutionaryLetters;SelectedPoems,1956–1976 PatriciaDobler—CollectedPoems StephenDobyns—BlackDog,RedDog;ThePorcupine’sKisses EdwardDorn—Gunslinger MarkDoty—MyAlexandria;Atlantis;Source SharonDoubiago—SouthAmericaMiHija RitaDove—ThomasandBeulah;GraceNotes;SelectedPoems NormanDubie—SelectedandNewPoems;RadioSky AlanDugan—CollectedPoems DeniseDuhamel—TheStar-SpangledBanner;QueenforaDay:SelectedandNewPoems; TwoandTwo RobertDuncan—RootsandBranches StephenDunn—ACircusofNeeds;TheInsistenceofBeauty CorneliusEady—BrutalImagination RussellEdson—TheVeryThingthatHappens;TheTormentedMirror LynnEmanuel—TheDig;Then,Suddenly— MartinEspada—ImaginetheAngelsofBread PeterEverwine—CollectingtheAnimals;FromtheMeadow 367 4 suggestions for further reading B.H.Fairchild—EarlyOccultMemorySystemsoftheLowerMidwest D.W.Fenza—TheInterlude:FablesoftheTwice-FallenAngels LawrenceFerlinghetti—AConeyIslandoftheMind EdwardField—StandUp,Friend,WithMe;VarietyPhotoplays;NewandSelectedPoems fromtheBookofMyLife...