What other poetry books have you been reading lately?
A chance to lift up and appreciate poetry books that I’ve been reading is too good to pass up – so I interpreted “lately” expansively. I’ve been reading, and often returning to re-read, these books over the past year or so.
Jordan Abel’s Un/inhabited
Yassin Alsalaman’s Text Messages
Daniel Borzutzky’s Lake Michigan
Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism (not always categorized as poetry, but vastly poetic)
Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony
Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters
Renee Gladman’s Event Factory
Liz Howard’s Letters from a Bruised Cosmos
Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death
Doyali Islam’s heft
Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas
Sachiko Murakami’s Get Me Out of Here
Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
Raquel Salas Rivera’s while they sleep (under the bed is another country)
Solmaz Sharif’s Look
Rita Wong’s forage
C.D. Wright’s Rising, Falling, Hovering
Raúl Zurita’s Song for his Disappeared Love
I also recently read Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police and, while not necessarily a poetry book, it has expanded my understanding of poetry.
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