In this installment, Natalie Diaz shares some of her favorite books from our collection. Listen to the reading she gave following on Voca.
Homer’s The Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles
Selected Poems, Langston Hughes
O the Delicacy and Strength of Lace, Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright
Omeros, Derek Walcott
The Iguana Killer, Alberto Álvaro Ríos
Kerosene, Tim Seibles
Where Clouds Are Formed, Ofelia Zepeda
Sophocles’ Antigonick, trans. Anne Carson
So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks, Rigoberto Gonzáles
Star Ledger, Lynda Hull
In Mad Love and War, Joy Harjo
Old Shirts and New Skins, Sherman Alexie
Starry Night, Marjorie Agosin
America the Beautiful, Paula Gunn Allen
Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm with Fingers, Yehuda Amichai
The Dead Sea Poems, Simon Armitage
The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges
The Complete Poems, Hart Crane
The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca
The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, Diane Wakoski
From the Stacks features writers from our Reading & Lecture Series sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry.