In this installment, Joshua Beckman shares some of his favorite books from our collection. Listen to the talk he gave following on Voca.
The Feel Trio, Fred Moten
The Formal Field of Kissing, Bernadette Mayer
Baseball, Tom Clark
The Poems of William Cowper, e.d. H.S. Milford
The Keeper of Sheep, Fernando Pessoa, tr. Edwig Honig and Susan M. Brown
The Making of the Pre (aigue), Francis Ponge. tr. Lee Fahnestock
Testimony, The United States (1885-1890) Recitative, Charles Reznikoff
Testimony, Volume II The United States (1885-1915) Recitative, Charles Reznikoff
The World and Its Streets, Places, Larry Eigner
Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writing, Barbara Guest
Selected Poems, Simon Pettet
A Ballad for Metka Krasovec, Tomaz Salamun
The Letters of John Clare, ed. J.W. and Anne Tibble
Romaji Diary and Sad Toys, Takuboku Ishikawa, tr. Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda
Places to Go, Joanne Kyger
The Seafarer, B.Q.E., and Other Poems, Frank Kuenstler
The Men, Lisa Robertson
Miyazawa Kenji: Selections, ed. Hiroaki Sato
A Purchase in the White Botanica: The Collected Poetry of Piero Heliczer, ed. Gerard Malanga and Andelm Hollo
Selected Poems of Catullus, tr. Carl Sesar
way: A Poem, Leslie Scalapino
From the Stacks features writers from our Reading & Lecture Series sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry.