Tom Snarsky Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Poems
Cecil Frances Alexander
@Joseph_Fasano_ poems of/for/with/poking-fun-at friends by William Bronk (“The Tell”), Kwame Alexander (“Life”), John Ashbery (“The Foreseeable Future”), and Cornelius Eady (“Dance Poem”) https://t.co/RRrNdCNEL4
Paperback, 2022
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Nox
Anne Carson
thought maybe it could be Gregory Orr, maybe the Anne Carson of NOX, that one Seamus Heaney poem, maybe a moment in Deaf Republic…but it hasn’t been any of those so far. You’ll be a poetry-seeking hero when you find it! 🏆 https://t.co/E9UKgfOkI2
Hardcover, 2010
$55.00$30.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Always a Relic Never a Reliquary
Kim Sousa
Kim Sousa (@kimsoandso), from Always a Relic Never a Reliquary: https://t.co/wxtk9KEFDC https://t.co/gxtWx0tgU8
Paperback, 2022
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Memory
Laura Jensen
@GabrielleBates there are all-time great poems like Laura Jensen’s “Memory” that I feel like I always think of when I see a prompt like this, but the particular way you phrased it here made me think of this Veronica Forrest-Thomson poem, the last in her Collected & one that moves like no other— https://t.co/FSlQeaSLYU
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Reverse Engineer
Kate Colby
I reviewed Kate Colby’s brilliant new collection REVERSE ENGINEER (@Ornithopterpoem) on the @NeutralSpaces blog; here’s the review: https://t.co/3ObMyM0cUk & more importantly here’s where you can go to find RE, which is full of gems including the pictured: https://t.co/BWHuiD6u9B https://t.co/LH6PDfrvFp
Paperback, 2022
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Pilgrimage Suites
Derek Gromadzki
@itsdbouts Pilgrimage Suites by Derek Gromadzki! When Shane McCrae writes here, “I can’t get enough of his sound, and I can’t wait for his book.” Pilgrimage Suites is the book: https://t.co/aE7ags7F6J
Paperback, 2016
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia
Kiki Petrosino
@RubenQuesada @Matt_Stefon Kiki Petrosino! the sonnet crown “Happiness” from her book White Blood (which also features some incredible erasures), the villanelles in Witch Wife…she has written so many great poems in so many forms that you’d have no trouble finding examples. Plus, she said this about form: https://t.co/fEMluohPJB
Paperback, 2020
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Scorpio
Katy Bohinc
@natallman a classic by Katy Bohinc, from her book Scorpio :) “But you are a tender / Afternoon nap” https://t.co/VJP3rhskW1
Paperback, 2018
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Return to the City of White Donkeys: Poems
James Tate
@liambatespoet happy birthday Liam! hope it’s a great day and here is one of my favorite James Tate poems to celebrate :) 🥳 https://t.co/pKO4zjGLv5
Paperback, 2005
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Four in Hand
Alicia Mountain
from Alicia Mountain (@HiGroundCoward)’s incredible Four in Hand (@boaeditions): https://t.co/XMRi0lpCIg https://t.co/fZwdxAQliO
Paperback, 2023
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