Basil Bunting | Briggflatts | Bloodaxe | 2009
A conflict-of-interest choice, as I had a hand, or at least a few fingers, in it. But you get Bunting’s great poem, a trove of info about him including pictures, a DVD and an audio CD. No excuse for not owning this.
Janet Frame | Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems | Bloodaxe | 2008
She stored the drafts of her poems in a disused goose bath rather than become a famous poet on a list like this one.
Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey Robinson, eds. | Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic & Postromantic Poetry | University of California Press | 2009
We always knew that the roots of postmodernism reached way down to the Romantic; here’s ample and amplifying proof. Beyond that, there are astonishing things here you won’t find anywhere else, juxtaposed with work you thought you knew.
Cecilia Vicuna and Ernesto Livon Grosman, eds. | The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology | Oxford University Press | 2009
Not just another anthology, but a sourcebook and storehouse of amazing value.
Bill Knott | Poems for Death | Lulu | 2009
Just one of many books Bill makes available for free; Bill is one of the best poets in the country. I guess we’re not supposed to say so.
Francisco de Quevedo, trans. Christopher Johnson | Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo: A Bilingual Edition | University of Chicago Press | 2009
Back when poetry feuds meant something, Quevedo and Gongora were in something of a death match; now they’re both immortal, and with the publication of this book we’re lucky to have easily available translations of each.
Algernon Charles Swinburne | Major Poems and Selected Prose | Yale University Press | 2004
You think you know Swinburne? Nah. This is some of the wildest, wackiest poetry ever written. Jerome McGann, who co-edited this selection, makes a great case for Swinburne as proto-modernist.
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain | Selected Poems | Wake Forest University Press | 2009
Like Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, a woman whose work reduces me to my piddly male essentials, leaving me to shiver in my shrinking skin.
Robin Blaser | The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser | University of California Press | 2006
Blaser’s poetics was talked about yet seldom taken to heart. This book collects some brave stuff, and sent me back to Arendt a changed and humble soul. Oh, and made me want to read Mary Butts.
Paul Blackburn | The Selected Poems of Paul Blackburn | Persea Books | 1984
One of the first poets I ever fell in love with. I’ve fallen in love with him again.
Mark Weiss, ed. | The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry | University of California Press | 2009
It’s amazing to consider that without this book we’d know of scarcely a single one of the poets Weiss has gathered here, any one of whom would be famous were he or she a white North American.
More about Don Share here.
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Basil Bunting | Briggflatts | Bloodaxe | 2009
A conflict-of-interest choice, as I had a hand, or at least a few fingers, in it. But you get Bunting’s great poem, a trove of info about him including pictures, a DVD and an audio CD. No excuse for not owning this.
Janet Frame | Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems | Bloodaxe | 2008
She stored the drafts of her poems in a disused goose bath rather than become a famous poet on a list like this one.
Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey Robinson, eds. | Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic & Postromantic Poetry | University of California Press | 2009
We always knew that the roots of postmodernism reached way down to the Romantic; here’s ample and amplifying proof. Beyond that, there are astonishing things here you won’t find anywhere else, juxtaposed with work you thought you knew.
Cecilia Vicuna and Ernesto Livon Grosman, eds. | The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology | Oxford University Press | 2009
Not just another anthology, but a sourcebook and storehouse of amazing value.
Bill Knott | Poems for Death | Lulu | 2009
Just one of many books Bill makes available for free; Bill is one of the best poets in the country. I guess we’re not supposed to say so.
Francisco de Quevedo, trans. Christopher Johnson | Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo: A Bilingual Edition | University of Chicago Press | 2009
Back when poetry feuds meant something, Quevedo and Gongora were in something of a death match; now they’re both immortal, and with the publication of this book we’re lucky to have easily available translations of each.
Algernon Charles Swinburne | Major Poems and Selected Prose | Yale University Press | 2004
You think you know Swinburne? Nah. This is some of the wildest, wackiest poetry ever written. Jerome McGann, who co-edited this selection, makes a great case for Swinburne as proto-modernist.
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain | Selected Poems | Wake Forest University Press | 2009
Like Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, a woman whose work reduces me to my piddly male essentials, leaving me to shiver in my shrinking skin.
Robin Blaser | The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser | University of California Press | 2006
Blaser’s poetics was talked about yet seldom taken to heart. This book collects some brave stuff, and sent me back to Arendt a changed and humble soul. Oh, and made me want to read Mary Butts.
Paul Blackburn | The Selected Poems of Paul Blackburn | Persea Books | 1984
One of the first poets I ever fell in love with. I’ve fallen in love with him again.
Mark Weiss, ed. | The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry | University of California Press | 2009
It’s amazing to consider that without this book we’d know of scarcely a single one of the poets Weiss has gathered here, any one of whom would be famous were he or she a white North American.
More about Don Share here.
Written by Steve Evans
September 16, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Posted in Attention Span 2009, Commented List
Tagged with Algernon Charles Swinburne, Basil Bunting, Bill Knott, Cecilia Vicuna and Ernesto Livon Grosman (eds.), Christopher Johnson (trans.), Don Share, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Francisco de Quevedo, Janet Frame, Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey Robinson (eds.), Mark Weiss (ed.), Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser