Summer Reading Poetry List: VPR

Like the figure above in Pablo Picasso’s Young Girl Reading a Book on the Beach, many soon will be dipping into their summer reading. Therefore, as the spring semester of classes has now concluded and graduation ceremonies are held this weekend, I thought this might be a good time to remind everyone each issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review contains a “Recent and Recommended Books” page for suggestions of poetry collections and books containing prose about poets or poetics.

Below readers will find those books that were listed with the current Spring/Summer 2008 issue (Volume IX, Number 2). Perhaps some of them will provide apt suggestions for summer reading.

GILBERT ALLEN:
Body Parts, Stepping Stones Press
MAUREEN ALSOP:
Apparition Wren, Main Street Rag
NIN ANDREWS:
Sleeping with Houdini, BOA Editions
SIMON ARMITRAGE (Tr.):
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, W.W. Norton
CYNTHIA ATKINS:
Psyche's Weathers, CustomWords
CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN:
Goat Funeral, Sheep Meadow Press
ANGELA BALL:
Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds, University of Pittsburgh Press
MARY JO BANG:
Elegy, Graywolf Press
SANDRA BEASLEY:
Theories of Falling, New Issues Press
JAN BEATTY:
Red Sugar, University of Pittsburgh Press
MICHELLE BITTING:
Blue Laws, Finishing Line Press
EAVAN BOLAND:
New Collected Poems, W.W. Norton
BRUCE BOND:
The Anteroom of Paradise, Silverfish Review Press
MARIANNE BORUCH:
Grace, Fallen from, Wesleyan University Press
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH:
Windcatcher: New and Selected Poems 1964-2006, Harcourt
KIM BRIDGFORD:
In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records, Contemporary Poetry Review Press
HELÉNE CARDONA:
The Astonished Universe, Red Hen Press
TINA CHANG, NATALIE HANDAL, & RAVI SHANHAR (Eds.):
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, W.W. Norton
ROB COOK:
Songs for the Extinction of Winter, Rain Mountain Press
LEIGH ANNE COUCH:
Houses Fly Away, Zone 3 Press
JIM DANIELS:
In Line for the Exterminator, Wayne State University Press
KWAME DAWES:
Gomer's Song, Black Goat Press
ROBERT D. DENHAM:
Charles Wright: A Companion to the Late Poetry, 1988-2007, McFarland
PERCIVAL EVERETT:
The Water Cure, Graywolf Press
BETH ANN FENNELLY:
Unmentionables, W.W. Norton
EDWARD FIELD:
After the Fall: Poems Old and New, University of Pittsburgh Press
J.M. FITZGERALD:
Telling Time by the Shadows, Turning Point Books
JEFF FRIEDMAN:
Black Threads, Carnegie Mellon University Press
LAVERNE FRITH:
Drinking the Night, Finishing Line Press
DAVID GALEF:
Flaws, David Robert Books
BRENDAN GALVIN:
Ocean Effects, LSU Press
REGINALD GIBBONS:
Creatures of a Day, LSU Press
ERIC GREINKE:
Wild Strawberries, Presa Press
H. PALMER HALL:
Coming to Terms, Plain View Press
KATHLEEN HALME:
Drift & Pulse, Carnegie Mellon University Press
MAUREEN HARDY:
The Headless Saints, New Issues Press
PENNY HARTER:
The Night Marsh, WordTech Editions
VICKI HEARNE:
Tricks of the Light, University of Chicago Press
EDWARD HIRSCH & EAVAN BOLAND, Eds:
The Making of a Sonnet, W.W. Norton
EMMA HOWELL:
Slim Night of Recognition, Eastern Washington University Press
MARK JARMAN:
Epistles, Sarabande Books
FADY JOUDAH:
The Earth in the Attic, Yale University Press
LAURA KASISCHKE:
Lilies Without, Ausable Press
ADAM KIRSCH:
The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, W.W. Norton
ANDREW KOZMA:
City of Regret, Zone 3 Press
NANCY KRYGOWSKI:
Velocity, University of Pittsburgh Press
MAXINE KUMIN:
Still to Mow, W.W. Norton
NICK LAIRD:
To a Fault, W.W. Norton
LAURIE CLEMENTS LAMBETH:
Veil and Burn, University of Illinois Press
DORIANNE LAUX:
Superman: The Chapbook, Red Dragonfly Press
DANIEL E. LEVENSON:
Are These My Lions?, Literary Comments Press
JEFFREY MCDANIEL:
The Endarkenment, University of Pittsburgh Press
CLAY MATTHEWS:
Superfecta, Ghost Road Press
COLLEEN J. MCELROY:
Sleeping with the Moon, University of Illinois Press
JOANNE MCFARLAND:
Fossil Fuel, Gold Leaf Books
SANDRA MCPHERSON:
Expectation Days, University of Illinois Press
HONOR MOORE:
The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir, W.W. Norton
HELENE PILIBOSIAN:
History's Twists: The Armenians, Ohan Press
JON PINEDA:
The Translator's Diary, New Issues Press
STANLEY PLUMLY:
Old Heart, W.W. Norton
STANLEY PLUMLY:
Posthumous Keats, W.W. Norton
LAURA VAN PROOYEN:
Inkblot and Altar, Pecan Grove Press
JAYNE PUPEK:
Forms of Intercession, Mayapple Press
PHILIP RAMP:
Keen, Shoestring Press
GREG RAPPLEYE:
Figured Dark, University of Arkansas Press
ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE:
Awaiting Permission to Land, Cherry Grove Press
ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE:
Real Toads, Black Buzzard Press
KATRINA ROBERTS:
Friendly Fire, Lost Horse Press
LEN ROBERTS:
The Disappearing Trick, University of Illinois Press
FRANCISCO SANTOS (Tr. & Ed. BRIAN CAMPBELL):
Undressing the Night: Selected Poems, Editorial Lunes
PHILIP SCHULTZ:
Failure, Harcourt
DAVID SCHUMATE:
The Floating Bridge: Prose Poems, University of Pittsburgh Press
JAN EPTON SEALE:
The Wonder Is: New and Selected Poems 1974-2004, Panther Creek Press
MARTHA SERPAS:
The Dirty Side of the Storm, W.W. Norton
ELAINE SEXTON:
Causeway, New Issues Press
OMAR SHAPLI:
Them, Twenty Three Books
LEO SHELTON:
Rhythms: Poetry and Muse, Tucson Press
DOUGLAS P. SMITH:
The Window at the Top of the Door, Outskirts Press
R.T. SMITH:
Outlaw Style, University of Arkansas Press
YOUNG SMITH:
In a City You Will Never Visit, California Institute of Arts & Letters
CATHY SONG:
Cloud Moving Hands, University of Pittsburgh Press
AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER:
The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985-2005, University of Pittsburgh Press
LISA WILLIAMS:
Woman Reading to the Sea, W.W. Norton
CHARLES WRIGHT:
Littlefoot, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
DEAN YOUNG:
Primitive Mentor, University of Pittsburgh Press

[Readers also are invited to visit the archived lists of Recent and Recommended Books from past issues of Valparaiso Poetry Review.]

Publishers or authors are encouraged to send review copies of new poetry collections or volumes on poetics to the address below:

Valparaiso Poetry Review
Edward Byrne, Editor
Department of English
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN 46383

Valparaiso Poetry Review also welcomes for consideration submissions of reviews or essays of critical analysis concerning any of the listed books. Those interested in submitting reviews should examine the VPR submission guidelines page.