Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

I have been reading books of poems and some biographies of poets. Here goes:

Couplets/Maggie Millner: debut collection that narrates two love affairs and navigates same and opposite sexual relationships, emotional power dynamics, guilt, shame, ecstasy, liberation, and everyday life--written in couplets and interstitial prose poems.

Design/Theresa Burns: collection ranging across subjects including marriage, family, mothers and daughters, home and its meanings, the natural world, and more.

Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt/Willard Spiegelman. Highly recommend this first biography of one of the most beguiling and unpredictable poets to emerge mid-life from complete obscurity to major recognition.

Eliot After The Waste Land/Robert Crawford. Illuminating and excruciating biography of Eliot's life--at home, at work, in the larger world--after The Waste Land made him the most famous poet of the century. Reading his travails, one wonders how he got anything done at all.

The Duino Elegies/Rilke. Every so often I dive back into these poems, which arrived to Rilke as revelations and read as such: a poet in dialogue with angels.

Adding just a couple to my list:

Philomath/Devon Walker-Figueroa (Milkweed Editions): 2021 National Poetry Series winner and a rich, moving, and beautifully produced collection of poems, many about growing up in a ghost town in remote Oregon.Philomath: Poems

Tap Out/Edgar Kunz (Mariner): Blunt instrument and sharp-edged blades of poems exploring masculinity, poverty, lives on the edges of places.Tap Out: Poems