RECOMMENDED POETRY BOOKS
This list of recommended poetry books is by no means exhaustive and will be growing regularly. The list is organized alphabetically by author and includes titles that I have read and enjoyed. They all live on my bookshelf so that I may return to them. I welcome your thoughts and suggestions for further reading.
Selected Poems (P.S.) by Gwendolyn Brooks
Oklahomaography by Joey Brown
Void of Course by Jim Carroll
Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden by Charles Goodrich
Insects of South Corvallis by Charles Goodrich
Booker T & Them: A Blues by Bill Harris
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Bobweaving Detroit: The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson by Murray Jackson
The Fighter Still Remains: A Celebration of Boxing in Poetry and Song from Ali to Zevon Selected and Edited by George Kimball and John Schulian
Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
The Mercy by Philip Levine
Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Work is Love Made Visible: Poetry and Family Photos by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
Selected Poems by George Oppen
Kindle by Paulann Petersen
Spring Tide by Pia Tafdrup, translated by Anne Born
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie by Elinor Wylie
Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Yousseff by Saadi Yousseff
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