Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

I love seeing everyone's lists! I am also glad to have a reason to review the books I'll be reading.

I have a few books in mind to read next year:

1. Julianna Baggott's Compulsions of Silk Worms and Bees Poems
2. Paul Guest's My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge
3. Aase Berg's Remainland Selected Poems of Aase Berg
4. Zachary Schomburg's Scary, No Scary
5. Maura Stanton's Life Among the Trolls
6. Brian Turner's Here, Bullet
7. Cate Marvin's Fragment of the Head of a Queen Poems

Here, Bullet is a good one, I read it a few years back.

These look great, Valerie. I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on Aase Berg's work. I just might add her to my list.

Laura,

I read Aase Berg's With Deer a couple weeks ago, and I loved it. I picked up Remainland Selected Poems of Aase Berg because it was the only other book of hers I could find in English.

Robert,

Everyone has been saying how good Here, Bullet is, so I had to check it out.

Here are the next 6 that I am going to read:

8. Sarah Maguso's Siste Viator
9. Victoria Chang's Circle
10. Alex Lemon's Mosquito: Poems
11. Ander Monsoon's Vacationland
12. Arielle Greenberg's Given
13. Philip Levine's What Work Is

14. Mary Ruefle's Tristimania
15. Tao Lin's Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Poetry
16. John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
17. Robert Lowell's Life Studies
18. Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III: Poems
(I got Words In Air, Bishop's and Lowell's correspondence, and wanted to read more of their poetry before I read their letters.)
19. Maura Stanton's Immortal Sofa

*20* Nick Flynn's Blind Huber: Poems

Love the title "Immortal Sofa." Did Laura have "Tristimania" on her list, too? Something from Ruefle.

Valerie wrote: "14. Mary Ruefle's Tristimania
15. Tao Lin's Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Poetry
16. John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
17. Robert Lowell's [bo..."

Valerie: I'll be awaiting your reviews of the Lowell and Bishop books since their books are on my list also.

S. wrote: "Love the title "Immortal Sofa." Did Laura have "Tristimania" on her list, too? Something from Ruefle."

Yup, Laura has Tristemania on her list. Seeing it there is the reason I moved it up on my reading list.

Donald wrote: "Valerie wrote: "14. Mary Ruefle's Tristimania
15. Tao Lin's Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Poetry
16. John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
17. Rob..."

I am looking forward to reading them, since I can't wait to read Words In Air.

21. Valzyna Mort's Factory of Tears
22. Heidi Lynn Staple's Guess Can Gallop
23. John Ashbury's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems
24. New Smoke: An Anthology of Poetry Inspired by Neo Rauch
25. Lucille Clifton's the terrible stories
26. Stephen D Schroeder's Torched Verse Ends

27. The Difficult Farm
28. The Haunted House
29. If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems
30. My Zorba
31. Black Life
32. Hard Reds
33. Becoming the Villainess
34. I Was the Jukebox: Poems
35. Trouble and Honey

I just counted and you've already reviewed 28 books. You can start banking them for next year. Cheers

I decided to make the next batch of books I'm going to read chapbooks. Some of them aren't listed on Good reads yet.

36.Brandi Homen'sTwo Kinds of Arson
37. Janaka Stucky's Your Name is the Only Freedom
38. Heather Green's The Match Array
39. Rick Lupert's Lizard King of the Laundromat
40. Kristy Odelius's Bee Spit
41. Christine Hamm's The Animal Husband
42. Dawn Losinger's The Nested Object
43. Nicole Cartwright Denison's Recovering the Body
44. Kathleen Aguero's Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth
45. Rebecca Loudon's Navigate, Amelia Earhart's Letters Home
46. Sarah Gardner's How to Study Birds
47. Reb Livingston and Ravi Shankar's Wanton Textiles
48. Rebecca Cook's The Terrible Baby
49. Sarah Sloat's In the Voice of a Minor Saint
50. Mark Leidner's The Night Of 1,000 Murders
51. Dorothea Lasky's TOURMALINE
52. Chad Parenteau's Discarded: Poems for my Apartment
53. Chad Parenteau's Self Portrait in Fire
54. Erin Elizabeth Smith's The Chainsaw Bears
55. Jen Tynes's See Also Electric Light

I am reading some of these chapbooks out of order. I didn't have access to the internet on the train to visit NJ and couldn't remember which order I listed these.

Don't worry! We're oral, not anal.

56. Peter Davis's Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!
57. Dara Wier's Remnants of Hannah
58. Dara Wier's Hat On A Pond
59. Matthew Zapruder's The Pajamaist
60. Robert Lowell's The Dolphin
61. David Rivard's Sugartown

62. Noelle Kocot's 4
63. Noelle Kocot's The Raving Fortune
64. Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler
65. Sarah Vap's American Spikenard
66. Thomas Lux's Split Horizon

Looking forward to these. I read American Spikenard earlier this year and was just re-reading some of it last night.

67. Katie Ford's Colosseum: Poems
68. Malena Morling's Astoria
69. Peter Streckfus's The Cuckoo

Valerie, I loved Ford's Colosseum. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did-can't wait to see your review.