Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

Here is my list of poetry books I want to read in 2012

Harry Behn ~ Cricket Song - Japanese Haiku
Robert Hass ~ The Essential Haiku
Siegfried Sasoon ~ Counter Attack and other poems
Bruce Ross ~ Haiku Moments, Anthology of contemporary Northern American Haiku
Walt Whitman ~ Poems of Walt Whitman
Ingeborg Bachmann ~ Darkness spoken
Sarah Kirsch ~ Catlives
Yvan Goll ~ 10000 Dawns ~ the love poems of Yvan and Claire Goll
Anne Sexton ~ Complete Poems
Nelly Sachs ~ O the Chimneys
Hilde Domin ~ Gesammelte Gedichte (could not find an English translation)
Catherine Tufarinello ~ Keeping my name
Marylin L. Taylor ~ Subject to change
Kate Light ~ The laws of falling bodies
Rhina P. Espilat ~ Where Horizons go
Suzanne Doyle ~ Sweeter for the Dark
Roddy Lumsden ~ Best of British Poetry 2011 (done and reviewed)
Linda France ~ Sixty Women Poets
James Bryne ~ Voice Recognition - 21 Poets for the 21st Century
Poems of the Past and the Present ~ Thomas Hardy (actually reading)

Great list & some German(ic) poets, too! I saw a documentary on Hilde Domin a few years ago. I doubt there is an English translation.
thanks

Which is a real shame. I did a paper on Hilde Domins poetry theory when I studied. She really inspired me for writing more poetry and reading as well. Can't remember any of it nowadays lol. I am from Germany and I really like the poetesses of her time. Maybe I can translate one of hers when I review it. Well someone already had the idea :-)The Poems of Hilde Domin

When I was taught German in college, our instructor had us memorize short poems by Goethe starting the very first week.

Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh ...

This made learning the language so much more enjoyable since we could appreciate the sounds and aesthetics rather than just worry about the gender of nouns and how to combine all the verbs ...

Wow, that sounds like a challenge, but nice, too.

Wow that sounds interesting. But I guess that is how I learned English listening to English songs and radio and later on watch DVD's in English with the English subtitles on.
I love Goethe's as well as Schiller's poems exactly because of that reason: They are very aesthetic and I just love old-fashioned stories. We had to learn Schiller's The Hostage by heart which was not usually done when I was at school but our Teacher said that it is a good training for our brains :-) Still know bits of it.

Oh dear I have so failed my lovely reading list and I assume I have to move it over to 2013. Very disappointing but this year was so challenging and taking part in #NaNoWriMo has just taken over everything. Well I will see what I can still do in December :-) take care

Nanowrimo does take over everything. Did you make the goal? I got to 40,000 words this time. Then it wasn't fun any more so I stopped. It was worth it.

Your list is impressive. I hope to hear about some of these books in the future.

Yes I made it with 50537 words still can not believe I finished.But my good reads goal won't work this year ~ shame! Thanks for your interest in my list. I promise I take it over to 2013 and try again :-)

Congrats on your Nano success! Yep, roll those wonderful books over into 2013. Not that I'm discouraging a December poetry burst, but this can be a month that pulls people in several directions.