Sam Rasnake posted the following tag/list at his blog, Sam Of The Ten Thousand Things and invited me to post my own list. Here’s his post:
may not have but must...
Here’s the tag:
Five poetry collections you may not have read but certainly must:
Kathryn Stripling Byer / Wildwood Flower (LSU, 1992)
Tory Dent / What Silence Equals (Persea, 1993)
Brigit Pegeen Kelly / Song (BOA, 1995)
Wayne Koestenbaum / Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender (Persea, 1994)
Robert Morgan / Groundwork (Gnomon, 1979)
The collections, for whatever reason, should be a bit off the beaten path. And need not have caused the earth to open and swallow you whole.
And here’s mine:
Thomas Hardy / Winter Words in Various Moods and Meters (1928)
Kenneth Koch / The Art of Love (1975)
Wallace Stevens / Harmonium (1923)
Allen Ginsberg / Howl and Other Poems (1955)
Robert Creeley / For Love (1962)
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3 comments:
Dennis, I have to say that I like the Koch and Creeley. But Howl and Harmonium are major foundation stones in my writing world. Yes. Good list.
Sam - I was lucky I could even come up with five at all, let alone obscure collections. Thanks!
It's a good list - definitely makes you think about obscurity of poetry. I mean, technically, no one in my family ever heard of anyone in your list. But hopefully among readers of poetry, we'll have read those. If not, I think we're in trouble!
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