FCR Staff Recommendations for National Poetry Month

The following poetry books are recommended reading from the staff of The Fox Chase Review. We hope you enjoy the selections.

From Editor Diane Sahms-Guarnieri

William Carlos Williams – Selected Poems, 

Edited by Charles Tomlinson

http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Poems-William-Carlos-Williams/dp/081120958X

 Charles Baudelaire – Les Fleurs du Mal, Translated by Richard Howard

http://www.amazon.com/Les-Fleurs-Mal-Charles-Baudelaire/dp/0879234253

Neruda – Selected Poems, Edited by Nathaniel Tarn

http://www.gregorbooks.com/cgi-bin/gregor/18415

Rimbaud – Complete Works, Selected Letters,  

Translated by Wallace Fowlie

http://www.amazon.com/Rimbaud-Complete-Works-Selected-Letters/dp/0226719731

The Inferno of Dante, Translation by Robert Pinsky 

http://us.macmillan.com/theinfernoofdante/Dante

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From  Editor Sandra Davidson

Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods by Paula Bohince

http://www.amazon.com/Incident-Edge-Bayonet-Woods-Poems/dp/1932511628

The Need to Hold Still by Lisel Mueller

http://www.amazon.com/The-Need-Hold-Still-Poems/dp/0807106704

Vain Empires by William Logan

http://www.amazon.com/Empires-Poets-Penguin-William-Logan/dp/0140588949

The Play of Dark and Light by Rita Ott Ramstad

http://www.amazon.com/Play-Dark-Light-Rita-Ramstad/dp/0944920446

Coming Into Eighty by May Sarton

http://www.amazon.com/Coming-into-Eighty-May-Sarton/dp/0393316238

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From Staff Book Reviewer Rodger Lowenthal

The Dream Songs by John Berryman

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Songs-John-Berryman/dp/0374530661

 

Different Hours  by Stephen Dunn

http://www.amazon.com/Different-Hours-Poems-Stephen-Dunn/dp/0393322327

Unincorporated Persons of the Late Honda Dynasty

by Tony Hoagland

http://www.amazon.com/Unincorporated-Persons-Late-Honda-Dynasty/dp/1555975496

 

Child Made of Sand by Thomas Lux

http://www.amazon.com/Child-Made-Sand-Thomas-Lux/dp/0547580983

 

Muscular Music by Terrance Hayes

http://www.amazon.com/Muscular-Carnegie-Mellon-Classic-Contemporary/dp/0887484387

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From g emil reutter

Drowning Like Li Po in a River of Red Wine by A.D. Winans

http://www.amazon.com/Drowning-River-Wine-Selected-1970-2010/dp/0977730085

The Achievement of Theodore Roethke

http://www.amazon.com/Achievement-Theodore-Comprehensive-Selection-Introduction/dp/B0016DCGWK

What Work Is by Phillip Levine

http://www.amazon.com/What-Work-Philip-Levine/dp/0679740589

Poets Laureate Anthology

http://www.amazon.com/Poets-Laureate-Anthology-Elizabeth-Schmidt/dp/0393061817

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry

http://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Bible-American-Poetry/dp/1560252278

 

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