Now this is going to be a long list. I guess alphabetizing is the best way to go, by poet’s last name. I’ll register my humble opinion by a * or ** system–one being good, two being a favorite. To purchase go to Powell’s Books.

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Akhmatova: Anna: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Tr. by Judith Hemschemeyer

Bishop, Elizabeth: Geography III

Borges, Jorge Luis: Selected Poems

**Bukowski, Charles: what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Cisneros, Sandra: Loose Woman

Cisneros, Sandra: My Wicked, Wicked Ways

Collins, Billy: Sailing Alone Around the Room

Crane, Hart: The Complete Poems of Hart Crane. Edited by Marc Simon

*Dickinson, Emily: Selected Poems

Dunn, Stephen: Between Angels

Eliot, T.S.: Collected Poems 1909-1962

Garcia Lorca, Federico: Collected Poems. Edited by Christopher Maurer

Giovanni, Nikki: Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

Gluck, Louise: The First Four Books

**Hafiz: I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Landinsky

Han-shan: Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T’ang poet Han-shan. Translated by Bruton Watson.

Hass, Robert: Praise

Hass, Robert: Field Guide

*Heaney, Seamus: The Spirit Level

*Hirshfield, Jane: The Lives of the Heart

Hughes, Ted: Birthday Letters

Hugo, Richard: Selected Poems

Kabir: The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir. Versions by Robert Bly

Kavanagh, Patrick: Collected Poems

Keats, John: The Complete Poems of John Keats

Lawrence, D.H.: The Complete Poems. Collected and Edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto & Warren Roberts

Levertov, Denise: Poems 1972-1982

Levine, Phillip: The Simple Truth

Lindsay, Sarah: Mount Clutter

Lorca, Federico Garcia: Collected Poems

Machado, Antonio: Selected Poems, Tr. by Alan S. Trueblood

*Milosz, Czeslaw: New and Collected Poems (1931-2001)

*Olds, Sharon: The Unswept Room

*Oliver, Mary: New and Selected Poems

Paz, Octavio: Selected Poems

Ponsot, Marie: Springing: New and Selected Poems

Rich, Adrienne: The Dream of a Common Language

Rilke, Rainer Maria: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Edited & Translated by Stephen Mitchell

Rimbaud, Arthur: Complete Works, Tr. by Paul Schmidt

Rumi:The Essential Rumi. Translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne

Seferis, George: Collected Poems: Revised Edition

*Shihab Nye, Naomi: Words Under the Words

Shihab Nye, Naomi: Red Suitcase

Snyder, Gary: No Nature

*Stafford, William: The Darkness Around Us is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Bly

*Stafford, William: The Way It Is

Stern, Gerald: This Time

Stern, Gerald: American Sonnets

Stevens, Wallace: The Collected Poems

*Stone, Ruth: Ordinary Words

Szymborska, Wislawa: Poems: New and Collected

Tagore, Rabindranath: Song Offerings

Thomas, Dylan: Collected Poems 1934-1952

Walker, Alice: Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

Whitman, Walt: The Complete Poems

Whyte, David: Where Many Rivers Meet

Wilde, Oscar: Poems

Williams, William Carlos: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volume 1 1909-1939

Wright, James: To a Blossoming Pear Tree

Yeats, W.B.: The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose. Edited by Richard J. Finneran