Been exchanging my list with other people's. Join in if you'd like.
Most influential early on:
Sylvia Plath - Ariel
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – A Coney Island of the Mind
Anne Sexton – Live or Die
Allen Ginsberg - Howl
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Most influential later:
Linda MaCarristan – Eva-Mary
Audre Lorde – Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Judy Grahn – Another Mother Tongue
Marilyn Hacker – Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons
Mary Oliver – Dream Work
Marie Howe – What the Living Do
Marie Howe – The Good Thief
Lucille Clifton – The Book of Light
Alicia Ostriker – The Crack in Everything
Most influential latest:
Edward Hirsch – Lay Back the Darkness
Catherine Barnett – Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced
D. Nurkse – Leaving Xaia
Joan Larkin - My Body
Donald Hall - Without
Mark Doty – School of the Arts
Brian Turner – Here, Bullet
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This is a great list for those of us with no idea where to start. I need to carry this around with me.
ReplyDeleteThanks! If poetry has spread to the rest of the family, Drew might really connect with Brian Turner's "Here, Bullet" which is all about his experiences in Iraq.
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