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Bob Holman’s choices of the best poetry books published in 2009: Amber Tamblyn, Adrienne Su, Anne Waldman, Ann Lauterbach, Cynthia Kraman, Susan Wheeler, Erica Kaufman, Rob Fitterman, Derek Fenner, Derek C. Brown, CA Conrad, Tom Healy, Rachel McKibbens, Adeena Karasick, Beau Sia, Ed Sanders, Breyten Breytenbach, Mahmoud Darwish, Rodrigo Toscano, Wednesday Kennedy, Belladonna & more....
A summary of things you need to think about when adding to your personal library of poetry books.
This was Alice Notley’s Year -- we just called it 2007, but two of her books entered the world this year. And two big books on two big but generally overlooked Heroes of the Beats, Helen Adam and Philip Whalen, made a deliciously illogical sense in this, the Year of the Continuing Break-down of US Democracy.
The five poetry books selected by the National Book Critics Circle as the best published in 2006, with links to purchase them online.
2006, Good Year, Poetry... Poetry Guide Bob Holman shines his spotlight back across the year to find the best poetry books published in 2006.
The five poetry books selected by the National Book Foundation as finalists for the 2006 National Book Awards, which recognizes the best books written by Americans in fiction, nonfiction, poetry & young people's literature.
The six poetry books selected by Northern California book reviewers as the best by Northern California poets published in 2005, with links to purchase them online.
Poetry Guide Margery Snyder introduces
Ten Thousand Lives (selections from the first 10 volumes of
Maninbo) by Ko Un, translated from Korean to English by Brother Anthony of Taizé, Young-moo Kim & Gary Gach, with an introduction by Robert Hass (Kobenhavn & Los Angeles: Green Integer Books, 2005).
The five poetry books selected by the National Book Critics Circle as the best published in 2005, with links to purchase them online.
A simple step-by-step outline to help you gather your poems in manuscript form for submission to publishers or publication contests.
2005 was truly a great year in poetry, and your Guide Bob Holman’s long list of sure fires -- must reads, books that sing, dance & change you -- wouldn’t all fit in one top ten list. So here are more of the best books of 2005, in no particular order.
2005 was truly a great year in poetry, and your Guide Bob Holman has a long list of sure fires, must reads, books that sing, dance & change you, offered here in no particular order.
Bob Holman’s sure fires for the great year of poetry 2005, in no particular order -- Marvin X, Eliot Weinberger, Oscar Brown, Jr., Naropa Archives...
The posthumous [i]Collecteds[/i] of June Jordan and Ted Berrigan show the depth and resilience of the human spirit -- reading these books will shake you up and leave you ready to go to work and dream.
The five poetry books selected by the National Book Foundation as finalists for the 2005 National Book Awards, which recognizes the best books written by Americans in fiction, nonfiction, poetry & young people's literature.
Poetry Guide Margery Snyder reviews
Some Angels Wear Black, selected poems by Eli Coppola, edited by David West & with an introduction by Michelle Tea (San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2005).
The five poetry books selected by the National Book Critics Circle as the best published in 2004, with links to purchase them online.
Poetry Guide Bob Holman continues his personal tour of the poetry world in the year 2004 with more of the best books, recordings & events, the poetry you’ll want to remember: Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen...
Casting our eyes back across 2004 in the poetry world, Poetry Guides Bob Holman & Margy Snyder choose the best poetry books we’ve read during the past year, the ones you'll want to own & reread.
Casting his eye back across 2004 in the poetry world, Poetry Guide Bob Holman chooses the best books, recordings & events, the poetry you'll want to remember from the past year: Lenny Bruce, C.D. Wright, Kirmen Uribe, Youussou N’Dour, Brian Wilson...
An index of our articles reviewing poetry collections & anthologies published as books or as performance CDs (also including our reviews of books
about poetry).
A comprehensive listing of poetry books reviewed & recommended by your About Poetry guides, Bob Holman & Margery Snyder.
Poetry books & recordings we recommend even though they are not available through the MySimon price comparison shopping service + how to find them, from your About Poetry Guides, Bob Holman and Margery Snyder.
