Solano Community College Library: Poetry: Recommended Books

Books to Help You Get Started

On this page, you will find some recommendations to help you get started in the amazingly diverse world of poetry. There are some general collections that include multiple poets. There are collections of works for specific poets. These are writers which you may find interesting and compelling. The suggestions are like a sample platter.. There are many more fabulous poets included in our collection than those listed below. So, if you find yourself craving more, ask a librarian for more recommendations, and we'll be happy to help you satisfy your appetite for poetry.

Time and Materials by Robert Hass
Call Number: PS3558.A725 T56 2007

ISBN: 9780061349607

Publication Date: 2007-10-09
The Best American Poetry 2019 by David Lehman; Jackson
Call Number: 811.6 BEST

ISBN: 1982106573

Publication Date: 2019-09-10
A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz
Call Number: 808.81 BOOK

ISBN: 0156005743

Publication Date: 1998-04-01
The collected poems of W.B. Yeats. by William Butler Yeats
Call Number: PR5900 .A3 1956

Publication Date: 1956
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 A17 1994

ISBN: 067942895X

Publication Date: 1994-09-13
On the Make Again by Jim Sagel
Call Number: PS3569.A29 O5 1990

ISBN: 0931122546

Publication Date: 1991-01-01
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 by Octavio Paz Lozano; Eliot Weinberger (Editor, Translator); Elizabeth Bishop (Translator); Paul Blackburn (Translator); Lysander Kemp (Translator)
Call Number: 861 PAZ

ISBN: 0811210375

Publication Date: 1987-11-01
The Collected Poems of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
Call Number: 811.52 FROST

ISBN: 9780785834236

Publication Date: 2016-11-01
The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale by Sara Teasdale
Call Number: PS3539.E15 A17 2012

ISBN: 9781420945508

Publication Date: 2012-01-01
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes; David Roessel (Editor); Arnold Rampersad
Call Number: 811.52 HUGHES

ISBN: 0679426310

Publication Date: 1994-11-15
Black Sister by Erlene Stetson (Editor)
Call Number: 811.008 STE

ISBN: 0253305128

Publication Date: 1981-12-01
The Open Boat by Garrett K. Hongo; Garrett Hongo
Call Number: 811.5408 OPEN

ISBN: 0385423381

Publication Date: 1993-01-01

Books for Beginning Researchers

On this page, you will find some recommendations for general criticism, theory, and analysis of poetry.

American and Canadian Women Poets 1930-Present by Harold Bloom (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: PS151 .A43 2001

ISBN: 0791063313

Publication Date: 2002-06-01
Aphrodite's Daughters by Maureen Honey
Call Number: PS310.N4 H66 2016

ISBN: 9780813570792

Publication Date: 2016-08-31
Between Worlds by Susan Bachmann; Melinda Barth
Call Number: PE1417 .B43 2004

ISBN: 0321106709

Publication Date: 2003-03-26
Catching Life by the Throat by Josephine Hart
Call Number: 821.808 CATCHING

ISBN: 9780393066074

Publication Date: 2008-04-17
Don't Read Poetry by Stephanie Burt
Call Number: 811.009 BURT

ISBN: 9780465094509

Publication Date: 2019-05-21
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Call Number: 808.1 FOSTER

ISBN: 9780062113788

Publication Date: 2018-03-27
A Little Book on Form by Robert Hass
Call Number: 809.1 HASS

ISBN: 9780062332424

Publication Date: 2017-04-04
Modernism by Peter Gay
Call Number: NX454.5.M63 G39 2008

ISBN: 0393052052

Publication Date: 2007-11-17
The poem itself; 45 modern poets in a new presentation, the French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian poems, each rendered literally in an interpretative discussion. Associate editors: Dudley Fitts, Henri Peyre, John Frederick Nims. by Stanley Burnshaw
Call Number: 808.81 BURNSHAW

Publication Date: 1960
Women Writers of Traditional China by Kang-i Sun Chang (Editor); Haun Saussy (Editor); Charles Y. Kwong
Call Number: PL2278 .W65 1999

ISBN: 0804732310

Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Ten Poems to Set You Free by Roger Housden
Call Number: 811.6 TEN

ISBN: 1400051126

Publication Date: 2003-12-30