Addendum to Split This Rock List of Recommended Poetry Books
2012
A Time of Angels, Homero
Aridjis (City
Lights)
Aridjis, through his political and environmental work, has fought to save the planet and its species, but the poems in A Time for Angels allow him to explore darker territory where that may not be possible. More than a time for angels, Aridjis’s poems suggest, it is a time for self-reckoning. - Words Without Borders
A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, CA
Conrad (Wave
Books)
A kind of poetry manual tinged with manifesto: a call to nonviolent and creative arms against a world in which “metal and plastic rule the center of gravity,” and against a nation that propagates war and mindless consumption. - Coldfront
Collected Poems, Jack
Gilbert (Knopf)
Despite his impulse to savor life’s richness and to bring pleasure and suffering into balance, Gilbert’s speaker is also vigilant, quietly braced by the awareness of mortality, described in one poem as “a cello in-side him.” - World Literature Today
Border Songs, Sam
Hamill (Word
Palace Press)
The shape of Sam Hamill's mind is the shape of both a revolutionary and a monk at work. His sacred text is poetry. - Terry Tempest Williams
Waxwings, Daniel
Nathan Terry (Lethe
Press)
Waxwings draws a portrait of a gay man that spans childhood, sexual initiation, lovers, coupling, the death of family and spouse, and meditation on what living will bring in coming years. It does so with breath-stopping beauty. - Hayden's Ferry Review
And forthcoming in 2013:
The
Philosopher's Daughter, Lori
Desrosiers (Salmon
Poetry)
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\al-fe bet\: Poems, Mitchell L. H. Douglas (Persea)
The Most Natural
Thing, David
Keplinger (New
Issues Poetry & Prose)
Gracias, Alma
Luz Villanueva
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