a hard knocking comes
March 1st, 2007
i crawl out of the swamp to name ten influential books of poetry … no order … for jordan …
Complete Poems - Carl Sandburg
The Waste Land and Other Poems - T. S. Eliot
The Double Dream of Spring - John Ashbery
Post-War Polish Poetry - Czeslaw Milosz (ed.)
This in Which - George Oppen
One Night Stand & Other Poems - Jack Spicer
Collected Poems - Frank O’Hara
Selected Poems - William Carlos William
A Selection of Poems - E. E. Cummings
The Crystal Lithium - James Schuyler
using a very narrow sense of ‘influential’ … these at one time or another in the past forty years were books i’d open, read for a few or more than a few minutes, then jump up for a pencil to write my own … they made me want to write my own
