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Kathy Paupore
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Username: kathy

Post Number: 9421
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 7:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Hey All,

I'm going shopping tomorrow at a mall that gives me access to a B&N, rows and rows of poetry books. Anyone read anything good lately they'd like to recommend?

Thanks,

Kathy
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~M~
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 31091
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 11:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Dearest Kathy -- you can't go wrong with anything we have listed in the WPF BookShop, but I just finished "Facts About the Moon" by Dorianne Laux myself, and I think you'd really enjoy that one. "Strike Sparks" by Sharon Olds, if you haven't read that one. And anything by Patricia Smith, Thomas Lux and David Kirby.

Love,
M
Shawn Nacona
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Username: shawn_nacona

Post Number: 928
Registered: 03-2007
Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 6:41 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Kathy,

I am not sure if you have read it yet, but the most current Best American Poetry is excellent, and I have also been reading "What the Living Do" by Marie Howe and also "Fear Itself" by Stan Rice, both are great books. Have fun shopping!

Cheers!

Shawn Nacona
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Emusing
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Username: emusing

Post Number: 6309
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 11:03 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Lynda Hull's Collected Poems completely changed my perspective. Stunning. Happy shopping!!

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Word Walker Press; Moonday Poetry;
Kyoto Journal

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Kathy Paupore
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Username: kathy

Post Number: 9426
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 9:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Thanks all.

A bummer is when the B&N isn't in the mall and your husband takes a wrong turn (maybe on purpose) and you miss the store completely. It was the only place I really wanted to go.

Anyways, I'll jot down your suggestions, they are all great. I have the Sharon Olds, but the others I don't, and there's even some new names there.

There's always Amazon!

*Kathy
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.--Robert Frost