In this installment, Alison Hawthorne Deming shares 20 of her favorite books from our collection. Listen to the reading she gave following on Voca.

Woven Stone, Simon J. Ortiz

Luminous Debris, Gustaf Sobin

This Time, Gerald Stern

The Forest, Susan Stewart

view with a grain of salt, Wisława Szymborska

The Kalevala, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley

The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ed. W.H. Gardner & N.H. MacKenzie

Poems of Nazim Hikmet, trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk

The Changing Light at Sandover, James Merrill

One Big Self: an Investigation, C.D. Wright

Juniper Fuse, Clayton Eshleman

Migration, W.S. Merwin

Body Clock, Eleni Sikelianos

Gilgamesh, David Ferry

Glass, Irony and God, Anne Carson

“I Am” the Selected Poetry of John Clare, ed Jonathan Bate

Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop

Garbage, A.R. Ammons

The Dream Songs, John Berryman

Reversing the Spell, Eleanor Wilner

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From the Stacks features writers from our Reading & Lecture Series sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry.