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10 best books like The Changing Light at Sandover (James Merrill): Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod, Selected Poems, Selected Poems, Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge, The Tunnel: Selected Poems, Collected Poems, 1920-1954, Geography III, Collected Poems, 1937-1971, Steal Away: Selected and New Poems, The Maximus Poems

Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0811213994
As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" and Ezra Pound's "Pisan Cantos." The first book of the Trilogy, "The Walls Do Not Fall," published in the midst of the "fifty thousand incidents" of the London...
Selected Poems
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0140585532
From the early virtuosity of Some Trees and The Tennis Court Oath through the triumphs of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror to the brilliance of A Wave - each collection of John Ashbery's verse has broken new ground. Now, from the whole range of a lifetime's work, Ashbery has...
Selected Poems
AuthorFrancis Ponge
ISBN0916390586
POETRY OF FRANCIS PONGE

I consider it as one of my miraculous reading encounters to have discovered this great poetry book of Francis Ponge. I first read about it in Italo Calvino's book, "Why read Classics?"

Ponge possesses a unique way of seeing. For him, seeing comes before words....
Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge
AuthorDelmore Schwartz
ISBN0811201910
When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959.
Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene—a position he had commanded ever since the appearance of his first collection of stories and poems in 1938. Summer Knowledge won for him both the prestigious...
The Tunnel: Selected Poems
AuthorRussell Edson
ISBN0932440657


Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
Collected Poems, 1920-1954
AuthorEugenio Montale
ISBN0374526257
Winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Premio Montale, an acclaimed translation of Italy's greatest modern poet

Eugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that begins with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled...
Geography III
AuthorElizabeth Bishop
ISBN0374514402
Second read. I haven’t the faintest recollection of writing the below review in 2014. .
Collected Poems, 1937-1971
AuthorJohn Berryman
ISBN0374522812
John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which...
Steal Away: Selected and New Poems
AuthorC.D. Wright
ISBN1556591942
Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright’s best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new "retablos" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright—with her Southern accent and cinematic eye—couples strangeness...
The Maximus Poems
AuthorCharles Olson
ISBN0520055950
Praised by his contemporaries and emulated by his successors, Charles Olson (1910-1970) was declared by William Carlos Williams to be "a major poet with a sweep of understanding of the world, a feeling for other men that staggers me." This complete edition brings together the three volumes of Olson's...
Gunslinger
AuthorEd Dorn
ISBN0822309327
Dorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature. Dorn is one of the few political poets in America; this fantasy about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse...
Collected Poems, 1951-1971
AuthorA.R. Ammons
ISBN0393321924
I haven't finished reading ALL the poems here, but am going to take a break for awhile (I've read almost one third, from various time periods in this collection). I forget how I stumbled upon this poet--I think he was quoted on an anarchist site that Lara sent me (believe it or not)--but he is one that I'll...
Radi Os
AuthorRonald Johnson
ISBN0974690244
Poetry. First published in 1977, Ronald Johnson's RADI OS revises the first four books of Paradise Lost by excising words, discovering a modern and visionary poem within the seventeenth-century text. As the author explains, "To etch is 'to cut away, ' and each page, as in Blake's concept of a book, is...
The End of Beauty
AuthorJorie Graham
ISBN0880016167
This podcast (a Q&A between Graham and Silverblatt) helped me tremendously in my reading of Graham: http://www.lannan.org/lf/rc/event/jor...

I love the story in this of Graham's teenage daughter coming to her and saying that she felt "bad." Graham's response: a thesaurus, to look...
New Collected Poems
AuthorGeorge Oppen
ISBN0811214885
George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost...
“A”
AuthorLouis Zukofsky
ISBN0801846684
My sweet unworded, we fall into disuse,
The sense that attached to us persists
Despite the yellow page of local history

Sir Edmund Hilary encounters Roberto Duran(1), a meeting burnished in fugue -- one containing labor history and untranslated fragments, replete with diacritics...
Collected Poems
AuthorThom Gunn
ISBN0374524335
The first of the poems in Thom Gunn’s Collected to really knock me out appears half way through his second book, The Sense of Movement (1957). In the poem, “To Yvor Winters, 1955,” Gunn pays homage to his former teacher with a portrait of the Stanford professor that compares his training of Airedale...
In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-1990
AuthorFrank Bidart
ISBN0374522715
I fear too many poets these days are considered "good" merely because they're different, their aesthetic hard, their poetry disarming. Bidart is all of these things, but deserving of our highest praises because his poetry transcends gimmicks to become a new verse, one that is beautiful and painful....
Cocktails
AuthorD.A. Powell
ISBN1555973957
kids everywhere are called to supper: it's late
it's dark and you're all played out. you want to go home

no rule is left to this game. playmates scatter like
breaking glass
they return to smear the ______. and you're it
--from "[you'd want to go to the reunion: see]"

In...
Stanzas in Meditation
AuthorGertrude Stein
ISBN1557131694
Written in 1932 at the house that Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas had rented in the Rhone Valley, Stanzas in Meditation is one of Stein's most abstract and complex works. It is almost as if Stanzas was conceived as a mirror opposite of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, penned in the same year. The...
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