(In no particular order, except Frank Stanford is the king.)
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You – Frank Stanford
The Light the Dead See – Frank Stanford
Ooga-Booga – Frederick Seidel
Itinerary: Poems – Reginald Shepherd
Internal West: Poems – Priscilla Becker
A World Beyond Myself – Rutger Kopland
What Water Left Behind – Rutger Kopland
The Salt Daughter – Christine Hamm
Figured Dark – Greg Rappleye
Dog Language – Chase Twichell
The Snow Watcher – Chase Twichell
Orange Girl – Simone Muench
Sleeping Woman – Herbert Scott
High Windows – Phillip Larkin
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems – Lisel Mueller
Necessary Stranger – Graham Foust
Glass, Irony and God – Anne Carson
The Beforelife – Franz Wright
For Love: Poem Nineteen Fifty to Nineteen Sixty – Robert Creeley
Deepstep Come Shining – C.D. Wright
A Murmuration of Starlings - Jake Adam York
9 comments:
I think I left Orange Girl off of my top list. It should be there.
I just finished Snow Watcher. It's not my thing.
I think you would like Dog Language quite a bit. Deepstep Come Shining is probably No. 3 on my list, after the Stanfords.
I read Ooga-Booga this year, too, and think it was my favorite.
I've read a little over half your list and you are spot on... these are not only some of the best YOUve read in 2008 but some of the best period.
Yeah. I've got one more I might add. Have to finish it first. Jake Adams - Murmuration of Starlings.
Charmi. Word. You liked the Creeley I lent you that much? That's great. I just read the Beforelife myself (got it as a Christmas gift). Some real fine poems in that one. I think I'll need to revisit that one, Walking to Martha's Vineyard, and God's Silence, try to get a sense of what your man (as they say in Ireland for some reason) is up to. Maybe write something about it. Talia's got the right idea, writing reviews, that sorta thing. Merry 8th Day of Christmas, soon to be 9th. I think.
Ah, yes, the review writing. I'm afraid I would look entirely foolish writing a review. I haven't been doing this long enough to write anything sensible. I would come back to what I had written a year later and be completely ashamed and I won't have youth on my side to defend me. I'll leave that to Talia.
And Happy New Year to you.
Hey:
Thank you for including me on your excellent list.
It was a great book, Greg.
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