Book Recommendations

Welcome to our book recommendations!
Stay tuned for future recommendations from contributors, editors, and readers.

Josh Kryah recommends:

Elizabeth Robinson's Apprehend
Martha Ronk's Why/Why Not
Mary Szybist's Granted
Fanny Howe's Gone

Wayne Miller recommends:

Here There Was Once a Country Vénus Khoury-Ghata, trans. Marilyn Hacker
Winter Dialogue, Tomas Venclova, trans. Diana Senechal
Twice Removed, Ralph Angel
shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities, Olena Kalytiak Davis
The Vandals, Alan Michael Parker
Literature and the Gods, Roberto Calasso, trans. Tim Parks
Tears and Saints, E. M. Cioran, trans. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
The Witness of Poetry, Czeslaw Milosz
Mosaic Man, Ronald Sukenick
The Huntsman, Whitney Terrell
The Tin Drum, Günter Grass, trans. Ralph Manheim

Kate Wells recommends:

Book of Motion, by Tung-Hui Hu

Elizabeth Dodd recommends:

Michele Boisseau, Trembling Air, U of Arkansas Press, 2003

Scott Minar recommends:

Tony Hoagland's What Narcissism Means to Me
Mark Nowak's Revenants
Dzvinia Orlosky's Edge of House
Philip Terman's The House of Sages
Paula Closson Buck's The Acquiescent Villa
Wayne Dodd's Is
Victor Hernandez Cruz's Selected Poems,
Edward Dougherty's Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree
Czeslaw Milosz's Roadside Dog
Tony Vallone's Golden Carp
Eugenio Montale's Collected Poems,
James Wright's Collected Poems

John Gallaher recommends 10 books of poetry from 2003

Michelle Boisseau, Trembling Air (Arkansas, 2003)
Joel Brouwer, Centuries (Four Way Books, 2003)
Wayne Dodd, IS (BOA, 2003)
Timothy Donnelly, Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Leibenszeit (Grove, 2003)
Albert Goldbarth, Combinations of the Universe (OSU, 2003)
Heather McHugh, Eyeshot (Wesleyan, 2003)
Donald Revell, My Mojave (Alice James, 2003)
Martha Ronk, Why Why Not (California, 2003)
Charles Simic, The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems (Harcort, 2003)
Mary Szybist, Granted (Alice James, 2003)



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