In this installment, Allen Crawford shares some of his favorite books from our collection. Listen to the reading he gave following on Voca.

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, ed. Alan Kaufman

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyan, trans. Edward Fitzgerald

The Dream Songs, John Berryman

red doc>, Anne Carson

Harmonium, Wallace Stevens

Collected Poems of H.D.

Eskimo Poems from Canada & Greenland, trans. Tom Lowenstein

The Book of Folly, Anne Sexton

Next to Nothing, Paul Bowles

Forms of Distance, Bei Dao

Paris Spleen, Charles Baudelaire

Over Here, Frank Sherlock

The Rings of Saturn, WG Sebald

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, Richard Brautigan

Bluets, Maggie Nelson

Poems of the Night, Jorge Luis Borges

Catallus, trans. Reney Myers & Robert Ormsby

Hymns to the Night, Novalis, trans, Dick Higgins

The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash

Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara

Narrow Road to the Interior, Matsuo Basho, trans. Sam Hamill

---

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