[New-Poetry] Poet's Bookshelf

TheOldMole Opus40-01 at opus40.org
Wed Jul 18 20:58:00 EDT 2007


I was just thinking about that thread, and about to write a note on it. 
I've been reading and enjoying William H. Pritchard's Lives of the 
Modern Poets, which I'm not sure we mentioned. Is our list archived 
somewhere accessible?

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> Remember a few month's ago when we had that thread going called 
> 'Poet's Ideal Library' and then became
> the 'Ars Poetica Library',
> well I just ran across this book edited by Peter Davis which is 
> somewhat along the same lines...
>
> http://bsu.edu/classes/koontz/barnwood/indbks/davis.htm
>
>
> 1) Please list 5-10 books that have been most “essential” to you, as a 
> poet.
> 2) Please write some comments about your list. You may want to single 
> out specific poems or passages from the books, discuss how you made 
> your decisions or provide thoughts about the importance of these books 
> in your life. Feel free to write as much as you would like.
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