In this installment, Thomas Sayers Ellis shares some of his favorite books from our collection. Listen to the reading he gave following on Voca.
Guest Forces of Imagination, Barbara Guest
Across the Mutual Landscape, Christopher Gilbert
Vanishing Lung Syndrome, Miroslav Holub
In the Mecca, Gwendolyn Brooks
Tell Me, Tell me, Marianne Moore
Theory of Flight, Muriel Rukeyser
The Life of Poetry, Muriel Rukeyser
The Gates, Muriel Rukeyser
The Speed of Darkness, Muriel Rukeyser
ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound
The Art of Poetry, Paul Valéry
Bone Thoughts, George Starbuck
Lectures in America, Gertrude Stein
Picasso, Gertrude Stein
American Journal, Robert Hayden
The Bourgeois Poet, Karl Shapiro
The Great Zoo & other Poems, Nicolás Guillén
Dante’s Drum-kit, Douglas Dunn
Unattainable Earth, Czesław Miłosz
Golden Sardine, Bob Kaufman
From the Stacks features writers from our Reading & Lecture Series sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry.