Near Perfect Books of Poetry
This page grew out of a number of postings on the Lilliput Review blog, Issa's Untidy Hut. The following list is culled from those postings and has become something of an ongoing project. If you have a suggestion of a title of a perfect or near perfect book of poems for this list and would like to receive the two current issues of Lillie for free (or have your current subscription extended), send your suggestion, along with your mailing address, to lilliputreview at gmail dot com (spelled out to avoid spam bots) or to the Lilliput snail mail address in the sidebar to the right.
The List
Chrysanthemum Love by Fay Aoyagi
Basho And His Interpreters by Makoto Ueda
Silence In The Snowy Fields by Robert Bly
The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan
Thirst by Patrick Carrington
And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Variations by Bill Deemer
Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hand by Martin Espada
Essential Haiku edited by Robert Hass
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac
The Haiku Anthology, 3rd edition, edited by Cor van den Heuvel
Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison
book of resurrection by mark hartenbach
My Life by Lyn Hejinian
Pleasure Dome by Yusef Komunyakaa
Verso by Pattie McCarthy
dogwood & honeysuckle by john martone
Forever Home by Lenard D. Moore
100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
Strike Sparks by Sharon Olds
Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat by Hosai Ozaki ------- translated by Hiroaki Sato
Raising the Dead by Ron Rash
The Waiting Room at the End of the World by Jeff Rath
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese tr. by Kenneth Rexroth
New Poems (1908), the Other Part by Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Snow)
The Concrete River by Luis Rodriquez
Say Uncle by Kay Ryan
Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
Grass and Tree Cairn by Santoka, translated by Hiroaki Sato
The Morning of a Poem by James Schuyler
Selected Poems by Anne Sexton
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Elements of San Joaquin by Gary Soto
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
Collected Poems - Dylan Thomas
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
The Prelude - William Wordsworth
The Tower by W.B. Yeats
