In this installment, Margarita Engle shares some of her favorite books from our collection. Listen to the reading she gave following on Voca.
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, trans. Ursula K. LeGuin
Versos Sencillos by José Martí, trans. Anne Fountain
Songs of Life and Hope by Rubén Darío, trans. Will Derusha and Alberto Acereda
Border of a Dream: Selected Poems by Antonio Machado, trans. Willis Barnstone
Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish by Juan Felipe Herrera, illus. Karen Barbour
Basho’s Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages, trans. Hiroaki Sato
Legacies: Selected Poems by Herberto Padilla, trans. Alastair Reid and Andrew Hurley
Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, ed. Alexander Coleman
Cuba by Rocardo Pau-Llosa
A Woman in Her Garden: Selected Poems by Dulce María Loynaz
City of a Hundred Fires by Richard Blanco
The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, trans. William O'Daly
Secret Country by Jorge Carrera Andrade, trans. Muna Lee
Wendell Berry: New Collected Poems
The Poems of Octavio Paz, ed. trans. Eliot Weinberger
In the Dark Before Dawn: New and Selected Poems of Thomas Merton, ed. Lynn R. Szabo
New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
Poem of the Deep Song by Federico García Lorca, trans. Ralph Angel
Horses in the Air and Other Poems by Jorge Guillén, trans. Cola Franzen
Poetry for Young People by Langston Hughes, illus. Benny Andrews
From the Stacks features writers from our Reading & Lecture Series sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry.