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Reading & Writing & Breathing
William Stafford, the revered American poet, thought of reading as inhaling others' words. He felt he should return the favor by exhaling words of his own. And he certainly did! One of his books leads off this sampling of recommended poetry. Stop by your local library or bookstore or click on Amazon (below) and pick up a volume or two, find some fresh air, take a deep breath, and treat yourself to some of the best poems from the marketplace. The ISBN numbers follow the titles for easy reference.
William Stafford: EVEN IN QUIET PLACES (1881090167)
James Wright: ABOVE THE RIVER (0374522820)
John Allman: INHABITED WORLDS (096480560x)
William Meredith: EFFORT AT SPEECH (0810150719)
Anne Sexton: THE COMPLETE POEMS (0395957761)
Miller Williams: SOME JAZZ A WHILE (025206774)
Theodore Roethke: THE FAR FIELD (0385046928)
Gary Snyder: MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END (1887178570)
Richard Wilbur: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS (0156654911)
Robinson Jeffers: SELECTED POEMS (0394702956)
Maxine Kumin: CONNECTING THE DOTS (0393316955)
William Carlos Williams: SELECTED POEMS (0939149613)
Sylvia Plath: COLLECTED POEMS (0060909005)
Gibbons Ruark: PASSING THROUGH CUSTOMS (0807123625)
W.S. Merwin: THE FOLDING CLIFFS (0375401482)
James Dickey: SELECTED POEMS (0819522600)
Galway Kinnell: A NEW SELECTED POEMS (0618021876)
Anthony Hecht: FLIGHT AMONG THE TOMBS (0679450955)
Derek Walcott: TIEPOLO'S HOUNDS (0374105871)
Donald Hall: WITHOUT (0395957656)
Jane Kenyon: OTHERWISE (0395957656)
W.D.Snodgrass: SELECTED POEMS (0939149613)
Seamus Heaney: OPENED GROUND (0374526788)
Jay Meek: HEADLANDS (088748235x)
Charles Bukowski: LAUGHING WITH THE GODS (0941543269)
Mark Strand: BLIZZARD OF ONE (0375701370)
Gregory Corso: MINDFIELD (1560252014)
Sharon Olds: BLOOD,TIN,STRAW (0375407421)
David Wagoner: TRAVELING LIGHT (0252068033)
Russell Edson: THE TUNNEL (0932440657)
Lucille Clifton: BLESSING THE BOATS (1880238888)
Donald Justice: NEW AND SELECTED (0679765980)
Ted Hughes: BIRTHDAY LETTERS (0374112967)
Carl Phillips: FROM THE DEVOTIONS (1555972632)
Gerald Stern: THIS TIME (0393319091)
Ai: VICE (0393320189)
Hayden Carruth: SCRAMBLED EGGS AND WHISKEY (1556591101)
Stanley Kunitz: PASSING THROUGH (0393316157)
Billy Collins: QUESTIONS ABOUT ANGELS (0822956985)
Mary Oliver: NEW AND SELECTED (0807068195)
William Heyen: CRAZY HORSE IN STILLNESS (1880238292)
Philip Levine: THE MERCY (0375401385)
David Baker: SWEET HOME, SATURDAY NIGHT (155728203x)
Robert Creeley: SELECTED POEMS (0520069366)
Donald Finkel: A QUESTION OF SEEING (1557285020)
Dick Allen: OVERNIGHT IN THE GUEST HOUSE OF THE MYSTIC (080711166x)
Rita Dove: SELECTED POEMS 0679750800)
David Ignatow: AGAINST THE EVIDENCE (0819512141)
Paul Zimmer: BIG BLUE TRAIN (1557282978)
James Applewhite: A HISTORY OF THE RIVER (0807118168)
Joseph Bruchac: RETURNING THE GIFT (0816514860)
Liz Rosenberg: CHILDREN OF PARADISE (0822955024)
Robert Phillips: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS (0865380511)
Amy Clampitt: COLLECTED POEMS (0375400087)
John Berryman: THE DREAM SONGS (0374516707)
Richard Hugo; MAKING CERTAIN IT GOES ON (0393307840)
Howard Nemerov: COLLECTED POEMS (0226572595)
Robert Hayden: COLLECTED POEMS (0871401592)
Gwendolyn Brooks: SELECTED POEMS (0060931744)
Lee-Young Li: WINGED SEED (1886913285)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: THESE ARE MY RIVERS (0811212521)
Gary Soto: BURIED ONIONS (0064407713)
Robert Pinsky: JERSEY RAIN (0374178879)
Robert Hass: SUN UNDER WOOD (0880015578)
C.K. Williams: SELECTED POEMS (0374524556)
Lewis Turco: THE SHIFTING WEB (1557280916)
John Frederick Nims: THE SIX-CORNERED SNOWFLAKE (0811211436)
James Whitehead: NEAR AT HAND (0826208789)
Mark Doty: SWEET MACHINE (0060952563)
Susan Mitchell: EROTIKON (0060553537)
Michael Harper: IMAGES OF KIN (0252006070)
Allen Ginsberg: HOWL AND OTHER POEMS (0872860175)
Terry Stokes: CRIMES OF PASSION (0394707974)
John Logan: COLLECTED POEMS (0918526655)
Gwendolyn Brooks: SELECTED POEMS (0060931744)
Philip Booth: SELECTED POEMS (0670882879)
Wendy Battin: IN THE SOLAR WIND (038519384x)
Charles Hartman: THE PIGFOOT REBELLION (0879233648)
Robert Creeley: ECHOES (0811212637)
Marge Piercy: WOMAN ON THE EDGE (044900094x)
Jane Cooper: ASHLEY HILL (1585004960)
Kenneth Patchen: WONDERINGS (081120149x)
Frank O'Hara: LUNCH POEMS (0872860353)
Jim Harrison: THE SHAPE OF THE JOURNEY (1556590954)
Robert Lowell: LIFE STUDIES (0374506280)
Josephine Miles: COLLECTED POEMS (0252067673)
Thom Gunn: BOSS CUPID (0374115575)
Leon Stokesbury: AUTUMN RHYTHM (1557284385)
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