Books to read - POETRY

Poetry
The Poets Laureate Anthology Billy Collins (Foreword), Elizabeth Hun Schmidt (Contributor), The Library of Congress (Contributor)

The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford by Wendell Berry

One With Others - C.D. Wright
Come on All You Ghosts - Matthew Zapruder

The Figured Wheel - Robert Pinsky

Selected Poems, 1963-1983 ~ Charles Simic 

Breaking the Alabaster Jar - Li-Young Lee (Interviews)

Haiku - Richard Wright (Read the Foreword; got to go back to the haiku some day)

Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems  - Mark Doty

Americana: and Other Poems - John Updike 

The Shadow of Sirius - W.S. Merwin   READ - 2010

The Old Life - Donald Hall   

Songs from a Bamboo Village - Sanford Goldstein

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Captivity by Laurie Sheck

Spring Essence Poems by Ho Xuan Huong (translated by John Balaban)

Locusts at the Edge of Summer : New and Selected Poems by John Balaban

What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio

New and Selected Poems : Volume One by Mary Oliver

New and Selected Poems : Volume Two by Mary Oliver

The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch by Kenneth Koch

American Hybrid by David St. John

Poetry Criticism and Analysis 

Wallace Stevens Revisited  Janet McCann 

A Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot George Williamson  

 The Music of What Happens ~ Helen Vendler

Part of Nature, Part of Us ~ Helen Vendler

Selected Prose - John Ashbery
Talking All Morning - Robert Bly

Poetry Anthologies

An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries by Huynh Sanh Thong

Ca Dao Vietnam : Vietnamese Folk Poety by John Balaban

Poetry Handbooks

In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable... by Steve Kowit

Rules for the Dance : A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver

A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver

The Practice of Poetry : Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach by Robin Behn

The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry by Kim Addonizio

The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser

Poetry Books

Anna Akhmatova

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova

Poetry and more from the famous Soviet poetess, Anna Akhmatova

The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Akhmatova's Poems of Memory by Nancy K. Anderson (Review)

Moscow Memoirs: Memories of Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, And literary Russia under Stalin by Emma Gerstein

Anna of All the Russias : A Life of Anna Akhmatova by Elaine Feinstein