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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

10 best books like Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (Carolyn Forché): Dancing in Odessa, She Had Some Horses, American Sublime: Poems, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems, Contemporary American Poetry, Without End: New and Selected Poems, After, My Alexandria, Deepstep Come Shining

Dancing in Odessa
AuthorIlya Kaminsky
ISBN1932195122
Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky is a recent Russian immigrant and rising poetic star. Despite the fact that he is a non-native speaker, Kaminksy's sense of rhythm and lyic surpasses that of most contemporary poets in the English language....
She Had Some Horses
AuthorJoy Harjo
ISBN1560258306

Friday afternoon. I take a taxi to the Buenos Aires Airpark. On my flight to Uruguay I read She Had Some Horses, by Jay Harjo. The poems seem somehow familiar, something . . . I am trying to put my finger on it . . . yes . . . they remind me of poems I have read in workshops at university—there is nothing technically...
American Sublime: Poems
AuthorElizabeth Alexander
ISBN1555974325
A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post)

Too many people have seen too much
and lived to tell, or not tell, or tell
with their silent, patterned bodies,
their...
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
AuthorYusef Komunyakaa
ISBN0819512117
Poetry "reconnects us to the act of dreaming ourselves into existence," Komunyakaa once wrote. Once you pause a minute to consider the pain that has served as an outline in this poet's life, and when you also consider the highfalutin awards and professorial prestige given to a man whom people still seem...
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0060928778
The poetry of Pablo Neruda is beloved worldwide for its passion, humor, and exceptional accessibility. The nearly fifty poems selected for this collection and translated by Stephen Mitchell—widely praised for his original and definitive translations of spiritual writings and poetry—focus...
Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorA. Poulin Jr.
ISBN0395745322
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
Without End: New and Selected Poems
AuthorAdam Zagajewski
ISBN0374528616
I love to swim in the sea, which keeps
talking to itself
in the monotone of a vagabond
who no longer recalls
exactly how long he's been on the road.
Swimming is like prayer:
palms join and part,
join and part,
almost without end.
--from "On Swimming"

Without...
After
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060779195
My first sustained meeting with Jane Hirschfield, and I've a feeling we'll sit for coffee again, given her knack for subtle metaphor and fascination with, oh, dogs and mortality and personification. I felt it was stronger BEFORE than After, but maybe it was me. The beginning of the book I read at 4 a.m.,...
My Alexandria
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0252022106
A versatile, technically astute poet, Doty masterfully tackles themes of death, beauty and discovery in this collection. Particularly moving is "Days of 1981," in which he recalls the memory of his first gay lover--a sculptor he met in a bar. "Nothing was promised, nothing sustained/or lethal offered....
Deepstep Come Shining
AuthorC.D. Wright
In C.D. Wright’s book-length poem Deepstep Come Shining, the eye and the ear are center. In the book, the result of a road trip taken with photographer Deborah Luster through Georgia and the Carolinas, the speaker of the poem is the “hand of the selenographer, mapper of lost roads.” Wright’s...
Here, Bullet
AuthorBrian Turner
ISBN1882295552
Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes...
Holocaust Poetry
AuthorHilda Schiff
ISBN0312143575
The only known collection of its kind currently in print, this important volume includes the work of 59 poets--among them Auden, Brecht, Celan, Jarrell, Levi, Milosz, Plath, Sexton, Spender, Wiesel, and Yevtushenko--writing on a range of subjects that are indelibly linked with the Holocaust. Collecting...
Repair
AuthorC.K. Williams
ISBN0374527067
Nominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets

"Always, "These gigantic inconceivables."
Always, "What will have been done to me?"
And so we don our mental armor,
flex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should.
A violent...
In the Next Galaxy
AuthorRuth Stone
ISBN1556592078
“Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden familiarity, the authority of their insights, the moral gulps they prompt, their fierce exactness of language and memory.”—Galway Kinnell on...
Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry
AuthorLouise Glück
ISBN0880014423
Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Glück brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same incisiveness...
Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 2: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Postwar to Millennium
AuthorJerome Rothenberg
ISBN0520208641
As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of contemporary poetry....
What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393312461
An incredibly inspiring and challenging collection of essays on poetry, particularly its politically transformative dimension. While Rich does speak about and from the USA, this is not so much a limitation but an implied challenge to the reader to think through their own context. From the final essay:

"A...
Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog
AuthorPaul Monette
ISBN0312026021

Love Alone was written during the five months after Paul Monette's lover and long-life companion, Roger Horwitz, died of AIDS.

If Grief, Mourning, Pain, Suffering of Loss and Love have been EVER put into words, then by Paul Monette in his eighteen Elegies for Rog. Eighteen poems.
...
The Orchard
AuthorBrigit Pegeen Kelly
ISBN1929918488
Richly allusive, the poems in Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s The Orchard evoke elements of myth in distinctive aural and rhythmic patterns. Her poetic strength lies in her ability to cast poems as modern myths and allegories. Propelled by patterned repetitions and lush cadences, the poems move the reader...
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