Near Perfect Books of Poetry

 

This page grew out of a number of postings on the Lilliput Review blog, Issa's Untidy HutThe 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