VPR Summer Reading List, 2009

Once again, as the spring semester of classes has now concluded and graduation ceremonies are held this weekend, 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 material. Therefore, 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.

Readers will find below those books that were listed with the current Spring/Summer 2009 issue (Volume X, Number 2). Perhaps some of them will provide apt suggestions for summer reading.

LOIS ADAMS:
Body and Soul, Five Spice Press
KIM ADDONIZIO:
Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, W.W. Norton
AGHA SHAHID ALI:
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems, W.W. Norton
STEVE ALMOND (Guest Ed.) & NATHAN LESLIE (Series Ed.):
Best of the Web 2008, Dzanc Books
SIMON ARMITAGE (Tr.):
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, W.W. Norton
RANE ARROYO:
The Roswell Poems, WordFarm
DONALD EVERETT AXINN:
Travel in My Borrowed Lives: New and Selected Poems, Arcade Publishing
LI BAI and DU FU (Tr. Keith Holyoak):
Facing the Moon, Oyster River Press
COLEMAN BARKS:
Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008, University of Georgia Press
APRIL BERNARD:
Romanticism, W.W. Norton
ERIN M. BERTRAM:
The Urge To Believe Is Stronger Than Belief Itself, Cherry Pie Press
LINDA BIERDS:
Flight: New and Selected Poems, G.P. Putnam's Sons
MICHELLE BITTING:
Good Friday Kiss, C&R Press
MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL:
And, BOA Editions
ROBERT BLY:
Leaping Poetry (reprint), University of Pittsburgh Press
TODD BOSS:
Yellowrocket, W.W. Norton
BRIAN BRODEUR:
Other Latitudes, University of Akron Press
JERICHO BROWN:
Please, New Issues Press
STEPHANIE BROWN:
Domestic Interior, University of Pittsburgh Press
ONI BUCHANAN:
Spring, University of Illinois Press
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY:
Flying Backbone: The Georgia O'Keeffe Poems, Blue Light Press
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY:
Modern History: Prose Poems 1987-2007, Tupelo Press
MARY BURGER (Ed.):
An Apparent Event: A Second Story Books Anthology, Second Story Books
ALARIC CABILING:
The Darkest Day, Praenomen Press
STACIE CASSARINO:
Zero at the Bone, New Issues Press
NINA CASSIAN:
Continuum, W.W. Norton
ELIZABETH CHAMPNEY, A.M. CHAPLIN, SYLVIA GILLETT, TERRY HILT, and PAMELA DI PESA:
The Physics of Longing, Brick House Books
ALFRED CORN:
Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007, University of Michigan Press
CATHERINE DALY:
Vauxhall, Shearsman Books
PHEBE DAVIDSON:
The Surface of Things, David Robert Books
LUCILLE LANG DAY:
The Curvature of Blue, Cervena Barva Press
HEATHER DERR-SMITH:
The Bride Minaret, University of Akron Press
SHARON DOLIN:
Burn and Dodge, University of Pittsburgh Press
SHARON DOUBIAGO:
Love on the Streets: Selected and New Poems, University of Pittsburgh Press
RITA DOVE:
Sonata Mulattica, W.W. Norton
DENISE DUHAMEL:
Ka-Ching!, University of Pittsburgh Press
RISHMA DUNLOP:
White Album, Inanna Publications
STEPHEN DUNN:
What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009, W.W. Norton
RUSSELL EDSON:
See Jack, University of Pittsburgh Press
CLAUDIA EMERSON:
Figure Studies, LSU Press
JOHN ESTES:
Breakfast with Blake at the Lacoön, Finishing Line Press
KATHY FAGAN:
Lip, Eastern Washington University Press
B.H FAIRCHILD:
Usher, W.W. Norton
ANN FISHER-WIRTH:
Carta Marina, Wings Press
CHERRYL FLOYD-MILLER:
Exquisite Heats, Salt Publishing
REBECCA FOUST:
Dark Card, Texas Review Press
REBECCA FOUST:
Mom's Canoe, Texas Review Press
CAROL FRITH:
Looking for Montrose Street, Finishing Line Press
DAVID LEE GARRISON:
Sweeping the Cemetery, Browser Books
BRENT GOODMAN:
The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, Black Lawrence Press
ANNE GORRICK:
Kyotologic, Shearsman Books
SONJA RUTH GRECKOL:
Gravity Matters, Inanna Publications
WILLIAM GREENWAY:
Everywhere at Once, University of Akron Press
CAROLYN GUINZIO:
Quarry, Parlor Press
BARBARA HAMBY:
All-Night Lingo Tango, University of Pittsburgh Press
MICHAEL S. HARPER:
Use Trouble, University of Illinois Press
JOY HARJO:
She Had Some Horses (reprint), W.W. Norton
ELIZABETH HAUKAAS:
Leap, Texas Tech University Press
MIGUEL HERNANDEZ (Translations by Michael Smith):
The Prison Poems, Parlor Press
CRAIG HILL (Tr.):
The Complete Fables of La Fontaine: A New Translation in Verse, Arcade Publishing
MATT HILL:
Parataxis, BlazeVOX Books
JAMES HOCH:
Miscreants, W.W. Norton
CATHY PARK HONG:
Dance Dance Revolution, W.W. Norton
MARK IRWIN:
Tall If, New Issues Press
SUZAN JANTZ (Ed.):
Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses, Yarroway Mountain Press
MICHAEL JENNINGS:
Silky Thefts, Orchises Press
JOHN KINSELLA:
Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography, W.W. Norton
NORBERT KRAPF:
Bloodroot: Indiana Poems, Indiana University Press
MARI L'ESPERANCE:
The Darkened Temple, University of Nebraska Press
KELLY LYDICK:
Mastering the Dream, Second Story Books
CHARLOTTE MANDEL:
Rock Vein Sky, Middlemarch Arts Press
PATRICIA MARKERT:
Watched You Disappear, Five Spice Press
CHRIS MARKS:
Something of a Creation, White Mountains Publications
JUSTIN MARKS:
A Million in Prizes, New Issues Press
DAVID MASON:
Ludlow, Red Hen Press
JILL MCDONOUGH:
Habeas Corpus, Salt Publishing
MICHAEL MCGRIFF:
Dismantling the Hills, University of Pittsburgh Press
JOHN MCKERNAN:
Resurrection of the Dust, Backwaters Press
WENDY MNOOKIN:
The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, BOA Editions, Ltd.
JENNIE NEIGHBORS:
Between the Twilight and the Sky, Parlor Press
CONSTANCE NORGREN:
Same Boat, Five Spice Press
TED OLSON:
Breathing in Darkness, Wind Publications
PETER ORESICK:
Warhol-O-Rama, Carnegie Mellon University Press
ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER:
The Mother/Child Papers, University of Pittsburgh Press
ELISE PASCHEN:
Bestiary, Red Hen Press
DONALD PLATT:
Dirt Angels, New Issues Press
NATE PRITTS:
Honorary Astronaut, Ghost Road Press
DIANA M. RAAB:
Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You, Plain View Press
JODY ALLEN RANDOLPH (Ed.):
Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion, W.W. Norton
DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH (Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, Trs.):
Hovering at a Low Attitude: The Collected Poetry, W.W. Norton
ADRIENNE RICH:
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems 2004-2006, W.W. Norton
BOYER RICKEL:
Remanence, Parlor Press
ANDREW MICHAEL ROBERTS:
Something Has to Happen Next, University of Iowa Press
LEX RUNCIMAN:
Starting from Anywhere, Salmon Poetry
ZACH SAVICH:
Full Catastrophic Living, University of Iowa Press
STEVEN D. SCHROEDER:
Torched Verse Ends, BlazeVOX Books
PATTY SEYBURN:
Hilarity, New Issues Press
CHARLIE SMITH:
Word Comix, W.W. Norton
LYTTON SMITH:
The All-Purpose Magical Tent, Nightboat Books
EDWARD SNOW & MICHAEL WINKLER (Trs.):
Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters, W.W. Norton
ELIZABETH SPIRES:
The Wave-Maker, W.W. Norton
MAURA STANTON:
Immortal Sofa, University of Illinois Press
KEVIN STEIN:
Sufficiency of the Actual, University of Illinois Press
JACK STILLINGER:
Romantic Complexity: Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, University of Illinois Press
JOHN STUBBS:
John Donne: The Reformed Soul, A Biography, W.W. Norton
YERMIYAHU AHRON TAUB:
What Stillness Illuminated, Parlor Press
LARRY D. THOMAS:
New and Selected Poems, TCU Press
PAMELA USHUK:
Crazy Love, Wings Press
LYRAE VAN CLIEF-STEFANON:
Open Interval, University of Pittsburgh Press
DAVID WAGONER:
A Map of the Night, University of Illinois Press
RONALD WALLACE:
For a Limited Time Only, University of Pittsburgh Press
ROSANNA WARREN:
Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, W.W. Norton
EMILY WILSON:
Micrographia, University of Iowa Press
REBECCA WOLFF:
The King, W.W. Norton

[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.