288 Near Perfect Books of Poetry
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The List The Clean Dark by Robert Adamson The Golden Bird by Robert Adamson Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova The Fall — Jordie Albiston A Nostalgist's Map of America by Agha Shaid Ali Chrysanthemum Love by Fay Aoyagi Once in Vermont by Bob Arnold Where Rivers Meet by Bob Arnold The Double Dream of Spring by John Ashbery Rivers and Mountains by John Ashbery Some Trees by John Ashbery Salute--to Singing by Gennady Aygi Pencil Flowers by Johnny Baranski Back Roads to Far Towns by Bashō, translated by Cid Corman and Kamaike Susumu Bashō And His Interpreters by Makoto Ueda Bashō: The Complete Haiku, translated by Reichhold & Tsujimura On Love and Barley by Bashō, translated by Lucien Styrk The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (any & all translations) Weeping for Lost Babylon — Eric Beach Openings by Wendell Berry Dream Songs by John Berryman Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop The Cities by Paul Blackburn Silence In The Snowy Fields by Robert Bly Talking into the Ear of a Donkey by Robert Bly Turkish Pears in August by Robert Bly Kerrisdale Elegies by George Bowering The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan Poems of Madness & Angel by Ray Bremser Life Supports by William Bronk Moment to Moment by David Budbill The Last Night of the Earth Poems — Charles Bukowski Mockingbird Wish Me Luck by Charles Bukowski Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, The Line, the Way - C. Bukowski Complete Poems by Basil Bunting Dreaming of Robert de Niro — Grant CaldwellThe Last Time I Saw Ameila Earhart by Gabrielle Calvocoressi Thirst by Patrick Carrington Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey by Hayden Carruth Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson Fear of Dreaming by Jim Carroll Woman Haiku Master by Chiyo-ni The Hundred Thousand Places by Thomas A. Clark String by Thomas A. Clark White Thought by Tom Clark No Ordinary Woman by Lucille Clifton The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins Sun Rock Man by Cid Corman Selected Poems by Robert Creeley 73 Poems by E. E. Cummings Places/Everyone by Jim Daniels Totem by Luke Davies Forth A Raven by Christina Davis And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis Variations by Bill Deemer Loba by Diane Di Prima (Wingbow, Penguin) Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima Griffon by Stephen Dobyns Hello La Jolla by Ed Dorn Small Favors by Barbara Drake Space Before A by Barbara Drake Streets of the Long Voyage — Michael Dransfield Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, tr. J. P. Seaton & D. Maloney The Caged Tiger by Louis Dudek Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy Roots and Branches by Robert Duncan What Goes On: Selected & New Poems by Stephen Dunn Miracles of the Sainted Earth by Victoria Edwards Tester Things Stirring Together or Far Away by Larry Eigner The World and Its Streets by Larry Eigner Then, And Now by Ted Enslin The Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hand by Martin Espada Tryst by Angie Estes Donna Juanita and the Love of Boys, by Gabrielle Everall Seam by Tarfia Faizullah Against the Forgetting by Hans Faverey Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlighetti The Whole Song: Selected Poems by Vincent Ferrini Gathering the Tribes by Carolyn Forché From the Country of Eight Islands, ed. by Hiroaki Sato & B. Watson From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright, ed. by B. ---Hendrickson & R. Johnson West-Running Brook by Robert Frost A bud — Claire Gaskin Poet in New York by Frederico Garcia Lorca (trans. by B. Bellitt) Prose Poems by Kahlil Gibran (translated by Andrew Gahreeb Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg The Wild Iris by Louise Glück Insects of South Corvallis by Charles Goodrich Mosquito and the Ant by Kimiko Hahn Without by Donald Hall The Haiku Anthology, 3rd edition, edited by Cor van den Heuvel Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison Braided Creek: a Conversation in Poetry by Jim Harrison & Ted Kooser book of resurrection by mark hartenbach Essential Haiku edited by Robert Hass Station Island by Seamus Heaney Best of Adrian Henri Barbarian in the Garden by Zbigniew Herbert Phosphorus by Alicia Hokanson Spring Essence by Xuân Hu’o’ng Ho, tr. by J. Balaban The Never Ending by Andrew Hudgins Working on My Death Chant by Albert Huffstickler Weary Blues by Langston Hughes Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes Crow by Ted Hughes Tread the Dark by David Ignatow The Dumpling Field by Kobayashi Issa, trans. by Lucien Styrk A Few Flies and I: Haiku by Issa Inch by Inch by Issa, translated by Nanao Sakaki The Year of My Life by Kobayashi Issa, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa Jade Mountain: anthology of Chinese Poetry, ed. by W. Bynner Lost World by Randall Jarrell The Beginning of the End by Robinson Jeffers The Book of the Green Man by Ronald Johnson Hojoki by Kamo Chomei The Ancient Rain by Bob Kaufman Otherwise: New and Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac The Saint of Letting Small Fish Go by Eliot Khalil Wilson Knock Upon Silence by Carolyn Kizer The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight Flowers of a Moment by Ko Un Three Way Tavern by Ko Hun The Art of Love by Kenneth Koch New Addresses by Kenneth Koch California Poems by James Koller Geography of the Forehead by Ron Koertge Pleasure Dome by Yusef Komunyakaa Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser All This Everyday by Joanne Kyger The Blood of the Air by Philip Lamantia O Taste and See by Denise Levertov The Sorrow Dance by Denise Levertov Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell The Lost Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy Knowledge Never Knew by Steve McCaffrey Verso by Pattie McCarthy Touch to My Tongue by Daphne Marlatt dogwood & honeysuckle by john martone Ksana by john martone ordinary fool by john martone After All by William Matthews The Nice Narrows: New and Selected Poems by Samuel Menashe The Lice by W. S. Merwin The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin At Dusk Iridescent by Thomas Meyer Sixty-Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints by Jack Micheline Temple Dusk by Mitsu Suzuki Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale Forever Home by Lenard D. Moore The Dillinger Books (various) by Todd Moore Deadly Nightshade by Barbara Moraff The Gallows Songs by Christian Morgenstern Cloudless at First by Hilda Morley Eyes: the Poetry of Jim Morrison The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story by Rusty Morrison The Memory of Water by Jack Myers Naked Poetry: Recent American Poetry, ed. by Stephen Berg New American Poetry, 1945-1960, ed. by Donald Allen 100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda tr. Merwin The Chimeras by Gérard de Nerval, translated by Peter Jay Next Room of the Dream by Howard Nemerov Call Me By My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh Still Water by bpnichol The Granite Pail by Lorine Niedecker My Friend Tree by Lorine Niedecker Collected Poems by Frank O'Hara Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara American Primitive by Mary Oliver Dream Work by Mary Oliver Owl and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver West Wind: Poems & Prose Poems by Mary Oliver Only Companion: Japanese Poems of Love and Longing, translated by Sam Hamill Of Being Numerous by George Oppen Why Not by Joel Oppenheimer 100 Poems from the Chinese, ed. by Kenneth Rexroth 100 Poems from the Japanese, ed. by Kenneth Rexroth The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds The Distances by Charles Olson In Cold Hell, In Thicket by Charles Olson Spearmint and Rosemary by Charles Olson The Ink Dark Moon by Onono Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, trans. by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani The Yellow Floor by Gil Ott Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat by Hosai Ozaki, tr. Hiroaki Sato Great Balls of Fire by Ron Padgett Selected Poems by Kenneth Patchen Notes Towards a Family by John Perlman Three Years Rings by John Perlman Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Plath: Poems by Sylvia Plath (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) Collected Early Poems by Ezra Pound The Yuan Chen Variations by F. T. Prince Collected Poems by Sally Purcell Clouded Sky by Miklós Radnóti Droles de Journal by Carl Rakoski The Waiting Room at the End of the World by Jeff Rath The Heart's Garden, The Garden's Heart by Kenneth Rexroth Jerusalem the Golden by Charles Reznizoff Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke Dunio Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by David Young) New Poems (1908), the Other Part by Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Snow) Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. by Edward Snow) The Concrete River by Luis Rodriquez Rainswayed Nights by Max Ryan Awesome Nightfall by Saigyo Poems of a Mountain Home by Saigyo The Kingdom by Frank Samperi Quadrifariam by Frank Samperi Spiritual Necessity by Frank Samperi Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg Investigative Poetry by Ed Sanders Grass and Tree Cairn by Santoka, translated by Hiroaki Sato The Morning of a Poem by James Schuyler Buffalo Head Solos by Tim Seibles Hammerlock by Tim Seibles Collecting Evidence by Hugh Seidman The Sonnets by William Shakespeare Itinerary by Reginald Shepherd Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror by Nathan Shepherdson Selected Poems by Masaoka Shiki Axe Handles by Gary Snyder Turtle Island by Gary Snyder Elements of San Joaquin by Gary Soto The Darkness Around Us is Deep: Selected Poems by William Stafford Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems by William Stafford The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford China Basin by Clemens Starck Journeyman's Wages by Clemens Starck Traveling Incognito by Clemens Starck The Steel Crickert, variations/translations by Stephen Berg The Color Wheel by Timothy Steele Paradise Poems by Gerald Stern New Math by Cole Swenson Poems New and Collected by Wisława Szymborska translated by S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska Poems to Eat by Takuboku, translated by Carl Sesar Memoir of a Hawk by James Tate Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate Collected Poems - Dylan Thomas Bittersweet by James Tipton The Invisible Lost Book of Deep Ocean Fish by Robert Vander Molen Argonaut Rose by Diane Wakoski Cap of Darkness by Diane Wakoski Collected Greed Parts 1-13 by Diane Wakoski Inside the Blood Factory by Diane Wakoski White Egrets by Derek Walcott Helping the Dreamer by Anne Waldman Hermit Poems by Lew Welch Scenes of Life at the Capital by Philip Whalen Severance Pay by Philip Whalen Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets by Jonathan Williams Paterson by William Carlos Williams Spring and All by William Carlos Williams The Prelude by William Wordsworth Sinking of Clay City by Robert Wrigley The Beforelife by Franz Wright Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright. Selected Poems by James Wright This Journey by James Wright Radiant Silhouette by John Yau Elegy on Toy Piano by Dean Young River of Stars by Yosano Akiko, tr. S. Hamill & K. Matsui Gibson Where Time Goes by Sander Zulauf
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