My New Year's Resolution for 2011 was to read 52 books of poetry. One book for each of the 52 weeks! I am pleased to say I have completed my goal! I wanted to share the list of all the poetry books I read for this personal (and public,Twitter updates) reading challenge. There are some great books on this list and some amazing poets that I was unfamiliar with. I will analyze the list later. For now, I'll just enjoy the satisfaction of fulfilling a New Year's Resolution. Usually they have perished by the third week in January. Perhaps this year's goal of losing twenty pounds is possible after all ?
| Addonizio, Kim | Tell Me |
| Addonizio, Kim | Linger at the Starlite |
| Armantrout, Rae | Versed |
| Berry, Wendell | Farming, A Handbook |
| Brown, Jericho | Please |
| Brown, Ray | I Have His Letters Still |
| Bukowski, Charles | War All the Time |
| Carty, Jessie | Paper House |
| Collins, Billy | Horoscopes for the Dead |
| Cushman, Stephen | Riffraff |
| Dargan, Kyle | Logorrhea Dementia |
| Dawes, Kwame | Hope's Hospice |
| deNiord, Chard | The Double Truth |
| Dickman, Matthew | All- American Poem |
| Eady, Cornelius | Hardheaded Weather |
| Fairchild, B.H. | Usher |
| Finney, Nikky | Head Off & Split |
| Gay, Ross | Bringing Down the Shovel |
| Griffiths, Rachel Eliza | Miracle Arrhythmia |
| Hayes, Terrance | Lighthead |
| Hicok, Bob | Words for Empty and Words for Full |
| Hodgen, John | Heaven & Earth Holding Company |
| Jackson, Gary | Missing You, Metropolis |
| Jackson, Major | Hoops |
| Jackson, Major | Holding Company |
| Johnson, Douglas P. (editor) | Broken Circles |
| Kistulentz, Steve | The Luckless Age |
| Komunyakaa, Yusef | Warhorses |
| Laux, Dorianne | Facts About the Moon |
| Limon, Ada | Sharks in the Rivers |
| Mali, Marie-Elizabeth | Steady, My Gaze |
| Mali, Taylor | What Learning Leaves |
| Manning, Maurice | The Common Man |
| Medina, Tony | My Old Man Was Always On The Lam |
| Meitner, Erika | Ideal Cities |
| Murphy, Peter E. | Stubborn Child |
| Nezhukumatathil, Aimee | Lucky Fish |
| Olds, Sharon | The Gold Cell |
| Padgett, Ron | How Long |
| Pastan, Linda | Queen of a Rainy Country |
| Paul, Bradley | The Animals Are Gathering |
| Pollock, Iain Haley | Spit Back A Boy |
| Powell, D.A. | Cocktails |
| Sayers Ellis, Thomas | The Maverick Room |
| Schultz, Philip | The God of Loneliness |
| Suarez, Virgil | 90 Miles |
| Szymborska, Wistawa | Here |
| Trethewey, Natasha | Domestic Work |
| Turner, Brian | Here, Bullet |
| Turner, Brian | Phantom Noise |
| Wojahn, David | World Tree |
| Wood, Susan | The Book of Ten |
5 comments:
Congratulations! What a list! Thanks for getting us started on #52poetry. I'm doing it again in 2012 and hope you are too!
Glad to be on the list! I think I read 52 bit I didn't keep great records :)
so very well read. different styles of poetics listed there.
WEll done on reaching your goalo for poetry reading in 2011
Congrats for fulfilling your resolution! Impressive. What's your reading resolution for this year, and what would you recommend?
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