 | Danger on Peaks by Gary Snyder
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $0.67 This is Snyder, the elder, showing the same passion and wonder that "Earth House Hold" had in the Sixties. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Snyder has matured rather than grow stale.
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 | Letters to Jane by Hayden Carruth
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $1.04 Collected here these are letters, poems in a way, he'd write for his good friend and poet Jane Kenyon, ending about the time of her untimely death in 1995. Moving, beautiful, earthy.
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 | Country of Light by Joseph Stroud
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $8.13 Stroud's fourth book. Certainly neither as known nor as appreciated as the people preceding him on this list, his work deserves careful attention and the expectation of unpretentious wisdom.
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 | The Singing: Poems by C. K. Williams
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $0.01 Williams said that "Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by." This his latest probbing of such view since his incomparable "Repair."
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 | Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $3.49 Anything Oliver publishes is reason for deep celebration. Probably the greatest American poet writing today.
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 | Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.33 US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's latest book. Another great example of a finely tuned heart.
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 | Mercy (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille Clifton
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $1.93 The way each poem lays upon the page, its pauses, its insights, will educate your heart. To read her is to witness the steadiness, the unassuming relentlessness of an underground river.
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 | The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations by Robert Bly
Buy used from: $0.75 This is wonderful anthology, compiled by Bly himself, of the great poets he has so passionately translated through the years. You can read my full review on this book's page.
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 | Blue Hour: Poems by Carolyn Forche
Buy used from: $1.97 Forsche's new book is probably her most challenging, which does not mean that it does not offer deep rewards to the faithful who choose to enter her poetic world. Definitely worthwhile.
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 | Kabir: Ecstatic Poems
Buy used from: $7.89 Although it is technically a new edition, the inclusion of ten new poems justifies considering for inclusion here.
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 | Generations (Poets, Penguin) by Pattiann Rogers
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $0.01 Pattiann's first book in several years (if you do not include "Songs Of The Becoming," her new and collected poems). As always, expect profound intelligence inspired by grace and awe.
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