The NPR List of Essential Poetry Books

  1. 1.
    Now You Care
    by Di Brandt

  2. 2.
    Power Politics: Poems
    by Margaret Atwood

  3. 4.
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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

  5. 6.
    The Book of Were
    by Wayne Clifford

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

  7. 8.
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    The Year One
    by David Helwig

  8. 9.
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    Report From The Besieged City
    by Zbigniew Herbert

  9. 10.
    What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American: [Poems]
    by Richard F. Hugo

  10. 11.
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    I Wanted to Say Something
    by B. McKinnon

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

  12. 13.
    Furious
    by Erin Moure

  13. 14.
    Muse and Drudge
    by Harryette Mullen

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

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

  16. 18.
    Duino Elegies
    by Rainer Maria Rilke

  17. 19.
    A Green Light
    by Matthew Rohrer

  18. 20.
    Kaddish for My Father: New & Selected Poems 1970-99
    by Libby Scheier

  19. 21.
    Loop
    by Anne Simpson

  20. 22.
    Modern and Normal
    by Karen Solie

  21. 23.
    The Grey Islands
    by John Steffler

  22. 24.
    Je Nathanaël
    by Nathalie Stephens

  23. 25.
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    Wood Mountain Poems

  24. 26.
    The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Revised Edition [with CD]
    by Dylan Thomas

  25. 27.
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    At the edge of the chopping there are no secrets
    by John Thompson

  26. 28.
    Tomas Transtromer: Selected Poems, 1954-1986
    by Tomas Transtromer

  27. 29.
    The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
    by Tomas Transtromer

  28. 30.
    Mountain Tea
    by Peter Van Toorn

  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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