From the Stacks is a regular series on the Poetry Center Blog in which we solicit authors to wander our library and choose books that have been important to them and/or that they recommend.

Susan Briante’s most recent book The Market Wonders (Ahsahta Press) was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. The Kenyon Review calls it “masterful at every turn.” She is also the author of the poetry collections Pioneers in the Study of Motion and Utopia Minus (an Academy of American Poets Notable Book of 2011) both from Ahsahta Press. About Utopia Minus, Publisher’s Weekly declared: “this book finds an urgent language for the world in which we live.” She is an associate professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Arizona.

 

 

 

 

Susan's selections From the Stacks are:

Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima

Reluctant Gravities by Rosmarie Waldrop

The Second Four Books of Poems by W.S. Merwin

SOS: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka

New Collected Poems by George Oppen

The Country of Planks by Raúl Zurita

The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser by Muriel Rukeyser

The Winter the Wolf Came by Juliana Spahr

The Other Lover by Bruce Smith