I’m pretty excited about the books my students chose for the first round of reading assignments in the class. It’s a nice mix of voices, and a few asked for books that surprised me. I had read most of them, but had the opportunity to read Jane Hirshfield’s Come, Thief for the first time this morning.
- Yehuda Amachai, Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm with With Fingers
- Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III
- Billy Collins, Questions About Angels
- Carl Dennis, Practical Gods
- Stephen Dobyns, Mystery, So Long
- Vievee Francis, Blue-Tail Fly
- Ross Gay, Against Which
- Jane Hirshfield, Come, Thief
- Tony Hoagland, What Narcissism Means to Me
- Mark Jarman, Unholy Sonnets
- Ethna McKiernan, The One Who Swears You Can’t Start Over
- John Murillo, Up Jump the Boogie
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil, At the Drive-In Volcano
- Thomas Lux, The Street of Clocks
- Kay Ryan, Say Uncle
- Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard
My great disappointment this time was that someone asked for Rose McLarney’s The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, and I couldn’t assign it because it’s checked out of the library.