Robert Alan Clanton
Author Recommended Reading
I mention some of these writers in the introduction to the book, but here I offer a more detailed list of some of the works of poetry on my must-read list.
The Boat of Quiet Hours, Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press, 1986)
Slouching Toward Nirvana, Charles Bukowski (Ecco Press)
Old and New Poems, Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990)
Thirst, Mary Oliver (Beacon Press, 2006)
Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)
Otherwise, Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press, 1996)
The Ha Ha, David Kirby (Louisiana State University Press, 2003)
Red Bird, Mary Oliver (Beacon Press, 2008)
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Vintage Books, 1990)
The Roominghouse Madrigals, Charles Bukowski (Ecco, 2002)
Poems and Prose, Gerard Manley Hopkins (Penguin Classics, Penguin Books)
The Figured Wheel, New and Collected Poems, Robert Pinsky (The Noonday Press, 1996)
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Translated by Stephen Mithcell, Vintage Books)
Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems (Edited by Nathaniel Tarn, Houghton Mifflin, 1990 edition)
Let Evening Come, Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press, 1990)
The House of Blue Light, David Kirby (Louisiana State University Press, 2000)
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