This was in the poem-a-day email from November 4, 2010. I need to read more of Harrison's work ( Read more... )

check out this fabulous article about modern love poems in Marie Claire! My friend Jill wrote one of the poems cited, which is super-cool. I loved the Frank O'Hara poem, but my favorite is the Brautigan one, which actually made me cry here at the office. You should go read it right now, I mean it.

F sent me this--it came up in today's Poem-A-Day email from poets.org. He said it reminded him a bit of my new work. I agree-this has some wilder language than what I've been doing, but I need some wilder language. I really like this poem and I'm hoping to track down a copy of Farley's book ( Read more... )

Full title on the cover: Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage. I really like both Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell, and I got this on sale for F for Christmas (I think it was). It's an excellent compilation--lots of different kinds of poems. I really enjoyed reading the whole thing ( Read more... )

Heather linked me to this poem and I think it's amazing. ( Etruscan Song, by Dan Chiasson )

I've been reading this poetry collection bit by bit late at night before bed (like I do with any poetry I read these days). I really loved this book--pretty much all of it, actually. At first I was marking poems that I especially liked, but it ended up being almost every poem so I stopped. Hass just has a beautiful way with language. I loved ( Read more... )

Poetry, recommended by F. Really delightful stuff. Apparently Berman is in a band and that's his main gig, and he just happens to be a terrific poet as a side thing ( Read more... )

This book is really amazing. It's really sad, because Gilbert wrote it after the death of his wife, and since there are few things I worry about more than F's untimely death, it was a difficult book for me to read. But the poems are incredibly beautiful and incredibly moving. Highly, highly recommended.

( Here's one of my favorites. )

I would give this book three and a half stars, I think. The poems are lovely, and many of them really touched me, but as a whole collection I didn't completely fall in love with it. Which, I mean, this book won the Pulitzer, so maybe I should have tried harder. But I did really love many of the poems. "Old Dogs", "What Goes On", Optimism", ( Read more... )

I really loved this book. Kirby has such an interesting style--he uses long long lines and a relaxed, conversational tone. Reading Kirby is like listening to someone who's had just enough to drink that he's got lots to say and eventually almost without noticing he gets around to saying something oddly profound. (Although obviously Kirby's ( Read more... )