The NPR List of Essential Poetry Books

  1. 1.
    Now You Care
    by Di Brandt

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  2. 2.
    Power Politics
    by Margaret Atwood

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  3. 4.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  4. 5.
    The Works of John Clare (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
    by J. Clare

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  5. 6.
    The Book of Were
    by Wayne Clifford

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  6. 7.
    A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series)
    by Gabriel Gudding

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    The Year One
    by David Helwig

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    Report From The Besieged City
    by Zbigniew Herbert

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    What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American: [Poems]
    by Richard F. Hugo

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    I Wanted to Say Something
    by B. McKinnon

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  11. 12.
    Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics
    by Joni Mitchell

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  12. 13.
    Furious
    by Erin Moure

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  13. 14.
    Muse and Drudge
    by Harryette Mullen

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  14. 15.
    Things That Keep and Do Not Change
    by Susan Musgrave

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  15. 16.
    two eyes are you sleeping (New Writers (DC Books Paperback))
    by Heather O\'Neill

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  16. 18.
    Duino Elegies
    by Rainer Maria Rilke

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  17. 19.
    A Green Light
    by Matthew Rohrer

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  18. 20.
    Kaddish for My Father
    by Libby Scheier

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  19. 21.
    Loop
    by Anne Simpson

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  20. 22.
    Modern and Normal
    by Karen Solie

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  21. 23.
    The Grey Islands
    by John Steffler

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    Je Nathanaƫl
    by Nathalie Stephens

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    Wood Mountain Poems

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  24. 27.
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    At the edge of the chopping there are no secrets
    by John Thompson

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  25. 28.
    Tomas Transtromer: Selected Poems, 1954-1986
    by Tomas Transtromer

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  26. 29.
    The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
    by Tomas Transtromer

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  27. 30.
    Mountain Tea
    by Peter Van Toorn

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  28. 31.
    Lyrical Ballads: William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge
    by R. L. Brett

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  29. 32.
    The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    by William Butler Yeats

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Created by janeday on May 30, 2007.
 

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