86 poets offer lists of books that were very important in their artistic

development, plus commentary.

Ai, Nin Andrews, Antler, Rae Armantrout, Angela Ball, Marvin Bell, Charles

   Bernstein,  Anselm Berrigan, Eavan Boland, Catherine Bowman, Alan Catlin, Henri Cole, Wanda Coleman, Clark Coolidge, Jim Daniels, Denise Duhamel,

   Stephen Dunn, Russell Edson, Elaine Equi, Clayton Eshleman, B. H. Fairchild, Annie Finch, Alice Friman, Amy Gerstler, Albert Goldbarth, Gabriel Gudding,

   Thom Gunn, Sam Hamill, Joy Harjo, Michael  S. Harper, Lola Haskins, Bob Hicok, Tony Hoagland, Paul Hoover, Fanny Howe, Andrew Hudgins, Lisa 

   Jarnot, Peter Johnson, X. J. Kennedy, David Kirby, Maxine Kumin, David

Lehman, Philip Levine, Lyn Lifshin, Timothy Liu, Gerald Locklin, Thomas Lux, 

   J D McClatchy, Peter Meinke, E. Ethelbert Miller, Thylias Moss, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ed Ochester, Molly Peacock, Lucia Perillo, Carl Phillips, Robert

   Pinsky, Charles Potts, Donald Revell, Adrienne Rich, Harvey Shapiro, Ron Silliman, W. D. Snodgrass, Juliana Spahr, Elizabeth Spires, Gerald Stern, David

   St. John, Virgil Suarez, David Trinidad, Paul Violi, Karen Volkman, David Wagoner, Charles Harper Webb, Dana Weir, Richard Wilbur, C. K. Williams, 

   C. D. Wright, Charles Wright, Franz Wright, Dean Young, Paul Zimmer

Link to page on previous site.  Much info.

From the reviews:

"What a fabulous anthology concept! Poet’s Bookshelf can top a list of books for recommending to, not just poetry lovers but, those who don’t follow poetry but are curious to learn more. For Poet’s Bookshelf, by showing how poets are in love with poetry, can make the reader fall in love with poetry, too. This book, also replete with deep insights, is a far more attractive alternative than other anthologies to which people usually turn for poetry introductions." Galatea Resurrects

"The sense of stumbling onto oddly formed treasures holds throughout this simply volume....The influences go beyond poetry and fiction, to the King James Bible, painter Chaim Soutine, and works on architecture, history, and geography....We emerge with new appetite, much as B. H. Fairchild did after reading Moby Dick and The Brothers Karamazov for the first time, 'I walked around in a sort of intellectual daze followed by a hunger that has never left me,' he wrote, 'and has filled my house with far too many books'." Poetry International

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