Those who know me also know that poetry is my first passion. Without it, I couldn’t be a writer.
For years, I began every writing day by reading an hour or more of poetry—sometimes randomly, sometimes focusing on the poet(s) I suspected I needed most. An image, a word, an unsettling phrase … poetry always guided me through the daily portal to my own work.
Today, I’d like to share with you a few poetry books I’ve especially loved in the past year or two. It was such a pleasure to peruse my shelves and revisit them.
GOOD STOCK, STRANGE BLOOD by Dawn Lundy Martin
POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM by Natalie Diaz
DEAF REPUBLIC by Ilya Kaminsky
LIMA::LIMÓN by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
GUILLOTINE by Eduardo C. Corral
THE STRAY DOG CABARET A book of Russian poems translated by Paul Schmidt
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