VPR Summer Reading List, 2010

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 many have begun thinking of books for the upcoming months, 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 volumes containing prose about poets or poetics.

Below readers will find those books that were listed with the current Spring/Summer 2010 issue (Volume XI, Number 2). Perhaps some of them will provide apt suggestions for addition to your summer reading.

MICHAEL ABELSON:
Clubbing in Rio: Selected Poems, Outskirts Press
KIM ADDONIZIO:
Lucifer at the Starlite, W.W. Norton
SAMUEL AMADON:
Like a Sea, University of Iowa Press
DAVID BAKER:
Never-Ending Birds, W.W. Norton
NED BALBO:
Something Must Happen, Finishing Line Press
NEELANJANA BANERJEE, SUMMI KAIPA, & PIREENI SUNDARALINGAM (Eds.):
Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry, University of Arkansas Press
ALIKI BARNSTONE:
Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems, Sheep Meadow Press
SANDRA BEASLEY:
I Was the Jukebox, W.W. Norton
TARA BETTS:
Arc & Hue, Aquarius Press
DEBORAH BOGEN:
Let Me Open You a Swan, Elixir Press
MOLLY BRODAK:
A Little Middle of the Night, University of Iowa Press
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY:
Rolling the Bones, University of Tampa Press
EDWARD BYRNE:
Seeded Light, Turning Point Books
MARY MARGARET CARLISLE:
Toss Me to the Waiting Sky, Poetry in the Arts
CHRISTOPHER CESSAC:
Eros Among the Americans, Main Street Rag Publishing
JEROME CHARYN:
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: a novel, W.W. Norton
PATRICIA CLARK:
She Walks into the Sea, Michigan State University Press
PETER CONSTANTINE, RACHEL HADAS, EDMUND KEELEY, & KAREN VAN DYCK (Eds.):
The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, W.W. Norton
ALFRED CORN:
Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007, University of Michigan Press
E.E. CUMMINGS:
Erotic Poems, W.W. Norton
TODD DAVIS AND ERIN MURPHY (Eds.):
Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets, State University of New York Press
MARK DEFOE:
Weekend Update, Main Street Rag Publishing
DANIEL DONAGHY:
Start with the Trouble, University of Arkansas Press
BOB DYLAN:
Bob Dylan Revisited: 13 Graphic Interpretations of Bob Dylan's Songs, W.W. Norton
CORNELIUS EADY:
Hardheaded Weather, Putnam
LYNN EMANUEL:
Noose and Hook, University of Pittsburgh Press
PATRICIA FARGNOLI:
Then, Something, Tupelo Press
REBECCA FOUST:
All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, Many Mountains Moving Press
JOEL FRIEDERICH:
Blue to Fill the Empty Heaven, Silverfish Review Press
CAROL FRITH:
Two for a Journey, David Robert Books
HELEN FROST:
Crossing Stones, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
LUCIA GALLOWAY:
Venus and Other Losses, Plain View Press
PAMELA GEMIN:
Another Creature, University of Arkansas Press
ROBERT L. GIRON (Ed.):
Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, Gival Press
KATE GLEASON:
Measuring the Dark, Zone 3 Press
MARILYN HACKER:
Names, W.W. Norton
KIMIKO HAHN:
Toxic Flora, W.W.Norton
JUDY HALEBSKY:
Sky=Empty, New Issues Press
H. PALMER HALL:
Foreign and Domestic, Turning Point Books
NATHALIE HANDAL:
Love and Strange Horses, University of Pittsburgh Press
ARLO HASKELL:
Joker, Sand Paper Press
JAMES HAUG:
Legend of the Recent Past, National Poetry Review Press
TOM HEALY:
What the Right Hand Knows, Four Way Books
TIM Z. HERNANDEZ:
Breathing, In Dust, Texas Tech University Press
BOB HICOK:
Words for Empty and Words for Full, University of Pittsburgh Press
CYNTHIA HOGUE:
Or Consequence, Red Hen Press
JOAN HOULIHAN:
The Us, Tupelo Press
MARIE HOWE:
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, W.W. Norton
MARY KATHRYN JABLONSKI:
To the Husband I Have Not Yet Met, A.P.D. Press
MARK JACKLEY:
Lank, Beak & Bumpy, Iota Press
CLIVE JAMES:
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008, W.W. Norton
ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU:
Passion Maps, Red Hen Press
JULIE KANE:
Jazz Funeral, Story Line Press
CLAUDIA KEELAN:
Missing Her, New Issues Press
BURT KIMMELMAN:
As If Free, Talisman House
TRACY KORETSKY:
Even Before My Own Name, Ragged Bottom Press
STUART KRIMKO:
The Sweetness of Herbert, Sand Paper Press
MAXINE KUMIN:
Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010, W.W. Norton
EDWARD CONNERY LATHEM (Ed.):
Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus, W.W. Norton
LI-YOUNG LEE:
Behind My Eyes, W.W. Norton
ERIC LEIGH:
Harm's Way, University of Arkansas Press
GARY LEMONS:
Bristol Bay & Other Poems, Red Hen Press
MICHAEL LEONG
E.S.P., Silenced Press
PHILIP LEVINE:
News of the World, Knopf
D.W. LICHTENBERG:
The Ancient Book of Hip, Fourteen Hills Press
FRANNIE LINDSAY:
Mayweed, The Word Works
WILLIAM LOGAN:
Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue, Columbia University Press
ALEXANDER LONG:
Light Here, Light There, C & R Press
JOANIE MACKOWSKI:
View from a Temporary Window, University of Pittsburgh Press
MARK MANSFIELD:
Strangers Like You, Van der Decken Press
MALINDA MARKHAM:
Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart, New Issues Press
KHALED MATTAWA:
Tocqueville, New Issues Press
HELENA MESA:
Horse Dance Underwater, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
DEENA METZGER:
Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems, Red Hen Press
JOHN MINCZESKI:
A Letter to Serafin, University of Akron Press
TREY MOORE:
Some Will Play the Cello, Pecan Grove Press
STANLEY MOSS:
Rejoicing: New and Collected Poems, Anvil Press
RICH MURPHY:
Voyeur, Gival Press
PAUL E. NELSON:
A Time Before Slaughter, Apprentice House
RENEE NORMAN:
Martha in the Mirror, Inanna Publications
WILLIAM NOTTER:
Holding Everything Down, Southern Illinois University Press
JANE ORMEROD:
Recreational Vehicles on Fire, Three Rooms Press
MOLLY PEACOCK:
The Second Blush, W.W. Norton
JIM PERLMAN, DEBORAH COOPER, MARA HART AND PAMELA MITTLEFEHLDT (Eds.):
Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude, Holy Cow! Press
LOUIS PHILLIPS:
Pitchblende, Prologue Press
KEVIN PILKINGTON:
In the Eyes of a Dog, New York Quarterly Books
MELISSA RANGE:
Horse and Rider, Texas Tech University Press
MICHAEL RATTEE:
Falling Off the Bicycle Forever, Adastra Press
JENDI REITER:
Swallow, Amsterdam Press
CHRISTINE RHEIN:
Wild Flight, Texas Tech University Press
ADRIENNE RICH:
A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008, W.W. Norton
SUSAN RICH:
The Alchemist's Kitchen, White Pine Press
SARAH ROSENTHAL:
Manhatten, Spuyten Duyvil
RALPH SALISBURY:
Life from a Bullet Hole: Poems New and Selected 1950-2008, Silverfish Review Press
DENNIS SAMPSON:
Within the Shadow of a Man, Settlement House
MARY ANN SAMYN:
Beauty Breaks In, New Issues Press
SHEROD SANTOS:
The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems, W.W. Norton
JANE SATTERFIELD:
Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond, Demeter Press
JULIE SHEEHAN:
Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise, W.W. Norton
LEO SHELTON:
D'liberate Ramblings, Tugson Press
RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS:
Satyr's Wife, Serving House Books
MICHAEL STEVEN:
Battering Lines, Kilmog Press
MICHAEL STEVEN:
Centreville Springs, Kilmog Press
MATHIAS SVALINA:
Destruction Myth, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
TERESE SVOBODA:
Weapons Grade, University of Arkansas Press
JASON TANDON:
Wee Hour Martyrdom, Sunnyoutside Press
LARRY D. THOMAS:
The Skin of Light, Dalton Publishing
ALLISON TITUS:
Sum of Every Lost Ship, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
EMMA TRELLES:
Little Spells, Goss 183 Press
SHAWN VANDOR:
Fire at the End of the Rainbow, Sand Paper Press
LIZ WALDNER:
Trust, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
MICHAEL WALSH:
The Dirt Riddles, University of Arkansas Press
BRUCE WEBER:
The Breakup of My First Marriage, Rogue Scholars Press
ALLISON BENIS WHITE:
Self-Portrait with Crayon, Cleveland State University Poetry Center
JAMES R. WHITLEY:
The Goddess of Goodbye, Word Press
JAMES R. WHITLEY:
This Is the Red Door, Ironweed Press
MARK VAN AKEN WILLIAMS:
Circus by Moonlight, Lucky Press
CECILIA WOLOCH:
Carpathia, BOA Editions
CHARLES WRIGHT:
Sestets, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ANDREW ZORNOZA:
Where I Stay, Tarpaulin Sky Press

Readers also are invited to visit the archived lists of Recent and Recommended Books from past issues of Valparaiso Poetry Review for hundreds of other suggested readings.

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.