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Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets

10 best books like Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets (Jordan Trachtenberg): Chicago Poems, What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems, You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Blood Sugar, Crossing the Water, Selected Poems and Two Plays, The Best American Poetry 2006, Poetry: An Introduction, The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990

Chicago Poems
AuthorCarl Sandburg
Chicago Poems was published in 1916 and was Sandburg's first major volume of poetry. Most of the poems are about the city that he loved, and he viewed it as only a poet could; in it's starkness, it's beauty, and it's people. In it's first poem, the title poem, Chicago, Sandburg's first verse reads:

Hog...
What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems
AuthorKim Addonizio
ISBN0393327094
Reading poetry from a familiar poet and knowing it's going to be good is one thing, reading poetry from a poet you know nothing about and being blown away is quite another. Kim Addonizio has reaffirmed my faith that poetry in the 21st century is alive and kicking. Her verse is down to earth, dealing with...
You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir
AuthorEireann Corrigan
ISBN0439297710
A startling autobiographical account of a young woman's battle with eating disorders that put her in and out of hospitals over a span of four years and led to her own parents fighting for the right to commit her. When her last source of support, her boyfriend, attempts suicide and ends up in a coma, she is...
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
AuthorMiguel Algarín
ISBN0805032576
I'm currently reading some of the authors in the "Founding Poems" section of this book, for the Poets of Color class I'm teaching. As well, I've just recently read and will reread Miguel Algarín's introduction. I'm so interested especially in the section of this intro re: the Open Room, and the open...
Blood Sugar
AuthorNicole Blackman
ISBN1888451343
Never liked poetry. Actually, I despised it. Ignored it. Then a few things happened in my life, I started to really listen to music and it`s lyrics and discovered Charles Bukowski and Nicole Blackman. They touched me. She touched me in places that I am afraid to reveal. Her hand penetrated my skull and...
Crossing the Water
AuthorSylvia Plath
ISBN0060907894
Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath’s life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most...
Selected Poems and Two Plays
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0020715404
Yeats’ speaks with a more moving and emotionally engaging voice about the middle of his long writing career in 1914-15 with poems like the short “A Coat”, “The Magi”, and the powerful “Easter 1916” about the failed Irish revolt whose participants were all but one executed. The memorable...
The Best American Poetry 2006
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN0743257596
Billy Collins, one of our most beloved poets, has chosen poems of wit, humor, imagination, and surprise, in a range of styles and forms, for The Best American Poetry 2006. The result is a celebration of the pleasures of poetry.

In his charming and candid introduction Collins explains how he...
Poetry: An Introduction
AuthorMichael Meyer
ISBN0312450516
Adapted from Michael Meyer's best-selling Bedford Introduction to Literature, this anthology responds to the needs of all kinds of poetry courses. Instructors across the country report that especially at schools where there is a decreased emphasis on literature and the humanities, students do...
The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990
AuthorDorothy Allison
ISBN0932379982
The Women Who Hate Me was first published as a chapbook in 1983 when Dorothy was 34; it was expanded and published in the form being reviewed here in 1991. Her short story collection Trash was first published in 1988 and an expanded version was published in 2002. She received mainstream recognition in...
Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered
AuthorCatherine Bowman
ISBN0375713158
Starting in 1995, NPR’s All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works. Introduced by “poetry DJ” Catherine Bowman, these popular short segments allowed listeners to experience poetry as a kind of verbal music, recalling its roots as a spoken art form. Word of Mouth,...
The Sword of Knowledge
AuthorC.J. Cherryh
ISBN0743498755
The Empire of Sabis was falling, besieged by the army of a more powerful empire and by hostile wizards. A small group of philosopher-scientists could reverse the tide if they could convince the rulers of Sabis to build the deadly new weapon that they have invented: the cannon. But when the rulers prove...
Human Dark with Sugar
AuthorBrenda Shaughnessy
ISBN1556592760
“Brenda Shaughnessy’s poems bristle with imperatives: ‘confuse me, spoon-feed me, stop the madness, decide.’ There are more direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot camp...Only Shaughnessy’s kidding. Or she is and she isn’t. If you just want to boss people around,...
Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World
AuthorIllona Linthwaite
ISBN0517093650
Most people who are going to find this book probably have at least a cursory background in women/race/class studies, and I don't think this book's poems offers many new perspectives from those fields. However, what this book does offer is a plethora of wonderful voices and words from around the world...
Ghost Girl
AuthorAmy Gerstler
ISBN0142000647
Sly and sophisticated, direct, playful, and profound, Amy Gerstler’s new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style. In thirty-seven poems, using a variety of dramatic voices and visual techniques, she finds meaning in unexpected places, from a tour of a doll hospital to an ad for a CD...
The Grief Performance
AuthorEmily Kendal Frey
ISBN1880834944
Emily Kendal Frey performs grief and dread as a graceful dance, the kind the tree you cut down in your backyard might do on your heart. This work is light, deft, dangerous. There are perfect poems here, such as “The End”, which enacts a simple, startling twist on the hoary injunction to “Walk towards...
Why Things Burn
AuthorDaphne Gottlieb
ISBN1887128654
I'd like to list the pieces within this amazing collection by Daphne Gottlieb which, in my experience, mind and heart, felt strikingly resonant. I love the form and ferosity of her words. Here are some of the poems which, as I was reading them, felt as though they were being branded into my skin.

a...
Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution
AuthorAlix Olson
ISBN1580052215
Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices; women who think and act decisively to create their distinctive and desperately earned realities. The combination of...
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
AuthorJune Jordan
ISBN1556592280
“Jordan . . . is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.”—Alice Walker

“Always urgent, inspiring, and demanding, Jordan’s work has left its indelible mark everywhere from Essence to The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and from theater...
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam
AuthorTony Medina
ISBN0609808400
Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry.

“Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and geographic locations coming...
The Seventh Octave: The Early Writings of Saul Williams
AuthorSaul Williams
ISBN0965830810
The first book from one of the most gifted poets of the Hip Hop Generation. The Seventh Octave features some of this great young poets most revered poems. From "OHM," to "Sha Clack Clack," Saul's words are breathtaking and powerful with every read. The Seventh Octave is a must-have collection for any...
Fruits & Vegetables
AuthorErica Jong
ISBN0030859980
This was a fun, quick read. I know Erica Jong had written Fear of Flying, but I was still surprised by how sexy and funny these poems were. My favorite lines were from "Two More Scenes from the Lives of the Vegetables II: Carrot," which read:
"Actually we believe the carrot to be
God's penis.
That...
Seventh Heaven
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0915890291
seventh heaven
Patti Smith

Oh Raphael. Guardian angel. In love and crime
all things move in sevens. seven compartments
in the heart. the seven elaborate temptations.
seven devils cast from Mary Magdalene whore
of Christ. the seven marvelous voyages of Sinbad.
sin/bad....
Nappy Edges
AuthorNtozake Shange
ISBN0312064241
nappy edges collects poetry and poetic prose by "a writer of unusual power and resonance . . . A leading black poet [who] ranks [with] Giovanni, Baraka, Brooks, and Hughes" (Emery Lewis, The Record). Indeed, nappy edges is "extraordinary and wonderful [in its] lyric, tragic exploration into black...
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