Verse Chronicle: Out on the Lawn
Billy Collins. Nine Horses. Random House, 2002.
Rosanna Warren. Departure. W. W. Norton, 2003.
Howard Nemerov. The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov. Ed. Daniel Anderson. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2003.
Sherod Santos. The Perishing. W. W. Norton, 2003.
Carolyn Forche. Blue Hour. HarperCollins, 2003.
James Fenton. The Love Bomb, and Other Musical Pieces. Faber and Faber, 2003.
Verse Chronicle: Stouthearted Men
George Oppen. Selected Poems. Ed. Robert Creeley. New Directions, 2003.
Franz Wright. Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Tony Hoagland. What Narcissism Means to Me. Graywolf, 2003.
Spencer Reece. The Clerk’s Tale. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Charles Wright. Buffalo Yoga. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Philip Larkin. Collected Poems. Ed. Anthony Thwaite. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
The Most Contemptible Moth: Lowell in Letters
Robert Lowell. The Letters of Robert Lowell. Ed. Saskia Hamilton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Verse Chronicle: One If by Land
Gary Snyder. Danger on Peaks. Shoemaker and Hoard, 2004.
Rita Dove. American Smooth. W. W. Norton, 2004.
Derrek Hines, trans. Gilgamesh. Anchor, 2004.
Stephen Mitchell, trans. Gilgamesh: A New English Version. Free Press, 2004.
Derek Walcott. The Prodigal. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Czeslaw Milosz. Second Space. Ecco, 2004.
Verse Chronicle: The Great American Desert
John Ashbery . Where Shall I Wander. Ecco, 2005.
Dean Young. Elegy on Toy Piano. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
Jorie Graham. Overlord. Ecco, 2005.
Kevin Young. Black Maria. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Ted Kooser. Delights & Shadows. Copper Canyon, 2004.
——. Flying at Night: Poems 1965–1985. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
——. The Poetry Home Repair Manual. University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Richard Wilbur. Collected Poems, 1943–2004. Harcourt, 2004.
Elizabeth Bishop Unfinished
Elizabeth Bishop. Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments. Ed. Alice Quinn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Elizabeth Bishop’s Sullen Art
Elizabeth Bishop. Exchanging Hats: Paintings. Ed. William Benton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
Verse Chronicle: Jumping the Shark
Kim Addonizio. What Is This Thing Called Love. W. W. Norton, 2004.
Billy Collins. The Trouble with Poetry, and Other Poems. Random House, 2005.
Kay Ryan. The Niagara River. Grove, 2005.
Mark Doty. School of the Arts. HarperCollins, 2005.
Jack Gilbert. Refusing Heaven. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Geoffrey Hill. Scenes from Comus. Penguin (UK), 2005.
Verse Chronicle: Victoria’s Secret
Seamus Heaney. District and Circle. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Louise Gluck. Averno. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Don Paterson. Landing Light. Graywolf, 2005.
Tess Gallagher. Dear Ghosts,. Graywolf, 2006.
Anne Carson. Decreation. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Geoffrey Hill. Without Title. Penguin (UK), 2006.
Attack of the Anthologists
The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Ed. David Lehman. Oxford University Press, 2006.
100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Mark Strand. W. W. Norton, 2005.
The Lost World of Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell. Selected Poems. Ed. Peter Porter. Faber and Faber, 2006.
Hart Crane Overboard
Hart Crane. Complete Poems and Selected Letters. Ed. Langdon Hammer. Library of America, 2006.
The Endless Ocean of Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott. Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Baugh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
The Civil Power of Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill. A Treatise of Civil Power. Yale University Press, 2007.
Verse Chronicle: God’s Chatter
Natasha Trethewey. Native Guard. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Mark Strand. Man and Camel. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
A. R. Ammons. Ommateum, with Doxology. W. W. Norton, 2006.
Louise Gluck. Firstborn. New American Library, 1968.
Franz Wright. God’s Silence. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Paul Muldoon. Horse Latitudes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Verse Chronicle: Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Luff
John Ashbery. A Worldly Country. Ecco, 2007.
Frieda Hughes. Forty-Five. HarperCollins, 2006.
Cathy Park Hong. Dance Dance Revolution. W. W. Norton, 2007.
Frederick Seidel. Ooga-Booga. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Robert Lowell. Selected Poems: Expanded Edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 [2007].
Henri Cole. Blackbird and Wolf. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Pynchon in the Poetic
Thomas Pynchon. Mason & Dixon. Holt, 1997.
Back to the Future
Thomas Pynchon. Against the Day. Penguin, 2006.
Verse Chronicle: The World Is Too Much with Us
Les Murray. The Biplane Houses. Farrar, Straus, 2006.
Robert Pinsky. Gulf Music. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Sandra McPherson. Expectation Days. University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Charles Wright. Littlefoot. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Kathleen Jamie. Waterlight: Selected Poems. Graywolf, 2007.
Robert Hass. Time and Materials. Ecco, 2007.
Verse Chronicle: Valentine’s Day Massacre
Ted Kooser. Valentines, University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Melissa Green. Fifty-Two. Arrowsmith, 2007.
Elizabeth Spires. The Wave-Maker. W. W. Norton, 2008.
Campbell McGrath. Seven Notebooks. Ecco, 2008.
Marie Howe. The Kingdom of Ordinary Times. W. W. Norton, 2008.
Jorie Graham. Sea Change. Ecco, 2008.
Frost at Midnight
Robert Frost. The Notebooks of Robert Frost. Ed. Robert Faggen. Harvard University Press, 2006.