Beginner Poetry Reading List

[Todd]

Here are some ones that I like (read more than once):

Louise Gluck

The Wild Iris

James Wright

You should be able to get a complete collection of his work

Charles Simic

The Voice at 3 AM

Carolyn Forche

The Country Between Us

Phillip Levine

What Work Is


Li-Young Lee

Rose

Pablo Neruda

(again should be a best of type collection)

Wislawa Szymborska

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Let's stop there. I'm already probably overdoing it.