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Bibliography: Recent American Poetry

Alvarez, Julia. The Woman I Kept to Myself : Poems. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. 811/Alvarez, J.

Ammons, A. R. Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005. 811/AM

Ashbery, John. Where Shall I Wander: New Poems. New York: Ecco, 2005. 811/AS

Auster, Paul. Collected Poems. Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2004. 811/Auster P.

Collins, Billy. Nine Horses: Poems. New York: Random House, 2002. 811/CO

Creeley, Robert. If I Were Writing This. New York: New Directions Books, 2003. 811/Creeley R.

Dove, Rita. American Smooth: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. 811/Dove R.

Doty, Mark. School of the Arts. Harpercollins, 2005. 811/DO

Dybek, Stuart. Streets In Their Own Ink. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 811/Dybek S

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Americus : Book I. New York: New Directions, 2004. 811/Ferlinghetti L

Giovanni, Nikki. The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998. New York: William Morrow, 2003. 811/ Giovanni N

Glück, Louise. October. Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books, 2004. 811/Gluck L pb

Hahn, Susan. Mother in Summer. Evanston, IL.: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2002. 811/HA pb

Hirsch, Edward. Lay Back the Darkness. New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 2003. 811/HI

Howard, Richard. Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 811/ Howard R

Justice, Donald. Collected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 811/Justice D

Kleinzahler, August. Strange Hours Travelers Keep. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003. 811/KL

Koch, Kenneth. A Possible World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 811/KO

Komunyakaa, Yusef. Taboo. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004.
811/Komunyakaa Y

Kooser, Ted. Delights & Shadows. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. 811/Kooser T pb

Lee, Li-Young. Book of My Nights. Rochester, N.Y.: BOA Editions, 2001. 811/LE pb

McGrath, Campbell. Pax Atomica. New York: Ecco, 2004. 811/McGrath C

Olds, Sharon. The Unswept Room. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 811/OL pb

Oliver, Mary. Blue Iris: Poems and Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. 811/Oliver M

Oliver, Mary. Why I Wake Early: New Poems. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. 811/Oliver M

Rich, Adrienne. The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. 811/Rich A

Simic, Charles. The Voice At 3:00 a.m.: Selected Late & New Poems. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2003. 811/SI

Smith, Charlie. Women of America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. 811/Smith C

Stone, Ruth. In the Dark. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. 811/Stone R

Stone, Ruth. In the Next Galaxy. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 2002. 811/ST

Swensen, Cole. Goest. Farmington, Me.: Alice James Books, 2004. 811/Swenson C pb

Tate, James. Return to the City of White Donkeys. New York: ECCO, 2004. 811/Tate J

Wilbur, Richard. Collected Poems, 1943-2004. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2004. 811/Wilbur R

Valentine, Jean. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected poems, 1965-2003. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. 811/Valentine J


Updated April 2005.

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