Wednesday 1 June 2022

Anna Lee-Popham : part three

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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