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message 1: by Jenna (last edited Mar 27, 2016 07:29AM) (new)

Jenna (jennale) | 1294 comments Mod
These are the 24 poetry books I've read and reviewed here so far this year. Books in translation are marked with asterisks. In keeping with my resolution to read more African-American writers, I read and reviewed six books by Black poets (Brooks, Komunyakaa, Dawson, Hayden, Hughes, Joseph).

1. Daniel Brown, What More?
2. Bao Phi, Song I Sing
3. Henry Walters, Field Guide a Tempo
4. Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems
5. Yusef Komunyakaa, Dien Cai Dau
*6. Ko Un, This Side of Time: Poems by Ko Un, trans. Clare You and Richard Silberg
7. Erica Dawson, The Small Blades Hurt
8. Robert Hayden, Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems
*9. Various Japanese poets, Haiku Love, trans. and ed. Alan Cummings
10. Richard Siken, Crush
11. Brenda Iijima and Annie Won, Once When a Building Block (chapbook)
12. Anton Yakovlev, Neptune Court (chapbook)
13. Daniel Brown, Taking the Occasion
14. Langston Hughes, Vintage Hughes
15. Allison Joseph, My Father's Kites
*16. Various Afghan poets, I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays From Contemporary Afghanistan, trans. and ed. Eliza Griswold
17. Catherine Breese Davis, Catherine Breese Davis: On the Life and Work of a Modern Master
18. Robert Lowell, The Dolphin
19. C. Dale Young, Torn
20. Marilyn Hacker, Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002
21. Various poets, The Best of the Raintown Review, ed. Anna M. Evans, Quincy R. Lehr, and Jeffrey W. Holt
*22. Liu Xia, Empty Chairs: Selected Poems, tr. Ming Di and Jennifer Stern
23. Anton Yakovlev, The Ghost of Grant Wood (chapbook)
24. Mary Meriam, The Lillian Trilogy


message 2: by Jen (new)

Jen (jppoetryreader) | 1944 comments Mod
An awesome list! Wonderful variety. Thanks for being so active in our group this year. I hope you can keep it up.


message 3: by Jenna (last edited Nov 08, 2015 08:36AM) (new)

Jenna (jennale) | 1294 comments Mod
Thanks, Jen. Love being here. Will try to keep it up!


message 4: by Jenna (last edited Mar 27, 2016 07:29AM) (new)

Jenna (jennale) | 1294 comments Mod
*22. Liu Xia, Empty Chairs: Selected Poems, tr. Ming Di and Jennifer Stern
23. Anton Yakovlev, The Ghost of Grant Wood (chapbook)


message 5: by Jen (new)

Jen (jppoetryreader) | 1944 comments Mod
Woot! You've surpassed the goal!


message 6: by Jenna (new)

Jenna (jennale) | 1294 comments Mod
Jen wrote: "Woot! You've surpassed the goal!"

Yes, a rarity! Who knows when I'll have the time to read so much again :-)


message 7: by Jenna (new)

Jenna (jennale) | 1294 comments Mod
Just popping back into this thread to update my list. I read The Lillian Trilogy in 2015 but wasn't able to post the review in this group until this month.


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