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American Poetry 2022 edition

American Poetry

     The Language of Life, Bill Moyers ed.

     Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself, Jerome Loving

Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song, Jim Perlman (Editor)

     The Poetry of Robert Frost, Robert Frost, Latham ed

 Robert Frost: A Life, Jay Parini

     The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (edited by Thomas H. Johnson), Emily Dickinson

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson, Martha Ackmann

     Complete Poems, The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition 8 Volume Set (Ronald Schuchard Editor), T.S. Eliot

Dove Descending: A Journey into T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, Thomas Howard

T.S. Eliot’s the Waste Land (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations), Harold Bloom

T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Lyndall Gordon

    The Complete Poems 1927-1979, Elizabeth Bishop

 Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss, Susan McCabe

     W.H. Auden; poems selected by John Fuller

W.H. Auden: a commentary, John Fuller

     Collected Poems, William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (Bloom’s Major Poets) Harold Bloom ed

     Opus Posthumus, Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, Harold Bloom

     Collected Poems, 1912-1944, Hippolytus Temporizes and Ion, Helen in Egypt, Tribute to Freud: Writing on the Wall and Advent, HERmione, Palimpsest, White Rose and the Red, The Sword Went Out to Sea: Synthesis of a Dream, (as Delia Alton), H.D.

The H.D. Book, Robert Duncan

     The Dream Songs, John Berryman

     A, Complete Short Poetry, Le Style Apollinaire: The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire, Bottom: On Shakespeare, Prepositions +: the Collected Critical Essays, Louis Zukofsky

    Upper Limit Music: The Writing of Louis Zukofsky, Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge, The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky, Mark Scroggins 

     The Collected Poems, The Bell Jar, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

(Karen V. Kukil Editor), Sylvia Plath

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Heather Clark

Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Judith Kroll

Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, Julia Gordon-Bramer

     Selected Poems, 1945–2005, Robert Creely

     Collected Poems 1947-1997, Poems for the Nation: A Collection of Contemporary Political Poems, Deliberate Prose – Essays 1952 to 1995, The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats, Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996, The Fall of America Journals, 1965–1971, Alan Ginsberg

The Poem That Changed America: “Howl” Fifty Years Later, Jason Shinder ed

I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan

     Revolutionary Letters 50th Anniversary Edition, Spring and Autumn Annals, The Poetry Deal, Diane di Prima

     Mountains and Rivers Without End, The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, Gary Snyder

     A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

     Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems,  I Praise My Destroyer: Poems, Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire, Diane Ackerman

     Selected Poems, Michael McClure

     The Complete Poems, Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton: A Biography, Diane Wood Middlebrook

     The Maximus Poems, The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems (George F. Butterick Editor), Muthologos: Lectures and Interviews, Charles Olsen

What Does Not Change: The Significance of Charles Olson’s “The King-Fishers”, Charles Olson’s Reading: A Biography, Ralph Maud

The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition, Stephen Fredman

      Ground Work I: Before the War, Ground Work II: In the Dark, Selected Poems,  Roots and Branches, Robert Duncan

Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson, An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson, Bertholf editor

Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan & the Poetry of Illness, Peter O’Leary

On Opening the Dreamway, James Hillman

A Poet’s Mind: Collected Interviews with Robert Duncan 1960-1985, Wagstaff

An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle, Michael Duncan

     The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt, Amy Clampitt

     The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 (1955-1977), Volume 2 (1978-2005), Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues, A.R. Ammons

     The Collected Poems, New & Selected Essays, Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions, Denise Levertov

A Poet’s Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov, Donna Hollenberg

     The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia

Hypodermic Light: The Poetry of Philip Lamantia and the Question of Surrealism, Steven Frattali

     The Dead and the Living, Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002, Stag’s Leap: Poems, Arias, Sharon Olds

     Selected Poems, Robert Bly

     Collected Poems: 1950-2012, Adrienne Rich

     The Problem of the Many, Timothy Donnelly 

     Averno, The Triumph of Achilles, Faithful and Virtuous Night, Proofs and Theories, American Originality, Louise Gluck                             

     The Lost Spells, Robert Macfarlane                     

     Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015, Just Kids, M Train, Year of the Monkey, Devotion, Patti Smith                                      

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I am a former counselor, teacher, and debate coach who loves to read and write, and a student of literature, psychology, history, philosophy, and languages who loves to travel. Help me celebrate the lives and works of our great authors as a common human heritage. I can also be reached at jayofdollhousepark@gmail.com. Regarding my literary criticism on Dollhouse Park Conservatory and Imaginarium: My initial project was to celebrate the authors whose work I love on their birthdays, by reading something of theirs and writing an appreciation. I've now come full circle and completed the calendar year. These are the authors whose works have been my companions through life, and some new discoveries. Many of their books are ones I also taught in high school English classes; works thoroughly lived with. I also include reading lists by national literature, a Modern American Literature group of lists, and Best Books of the Year lists and reviews. There will occasionally be my own poetry as well; you are warned. I hope that you may also find books which will help you through life and bring depth and joy to your days. As to my aesthetics, I envision the mission of creating civilization as a game played by figures which represent conserving and revolutionary forces, as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot may serve as paragons of their sides of the board and reflect each other as partners in the great game of reimagining humankind, a result of the early influence of Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game and Yasunari Kawabata’s The Master of Go, which I read during seventh grade, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, which I read the following year. Each of us, as with every author, musician, artist, scientist, or public figure, plays the Great Game on one of these dyadic teams. The function of conservatism is to buffer order from the shock of the new and withstand stresses and changing conditions without losing ourselves or undergoing morphogenic change, the loss of identity as structural form, or ruptures to our prochronism, the memory and history of our choices, successful adaptations and strategies of survival as expressed in our systemic form, the loss of our culture and traditions. The function of revolution and innovation is to capitalize on chaos as adaptive potential in dynamically unstable conditions, to adapt and shape ourselves to future needs and to transform, create, and discover new forms, meanings, and values. We need both conserving and revolutionary forces to envision and enact a thing of beauty, be it a person, story, song, film, theory, or any creative artifact of authentic human imagination and experience. A beautiful political structure may be judged by the same criterion as a beautiful poem; so also with humans and the values their actions embody. Thank you so much for your company on this journey. Regarding my daily political journal on Torch of Freedom, a voice of progressive democracy and the antifascist Resistance: I stand for liberty, equality, truth, and justice; a free society of equals. My America is a torch of Liberty and a beacon of hope to the world. I stand for the absolute structural and systemic equality of all human beings, and for the Rights of Man everywhere on earth. I am on the side of Prometheus; rebellion, chaos, anarchy, resistance, transgression, revolution, and the frightening of the horses. Herein I write as an agent of Chaos and Transformation whose goal in life is to become a fulcrum and change the balance of power in the world. For thirty-nine years now I have been engaged in antifascist action, democracy activism, and revolutionary struggle against tyranny and state terror for the liberation of humankind, wherever men hunger to be free. And so I offer to all of you the Oath of the Resistance as it was given to me in Beirut 1982 by the great Jean Genet as he formulated it in Paris 1940, in a burning house, in a lost cause, in a time of force and darkness, in a last stand and an act of defiance beyond hope of victory or survival; “We swear our loyalty to each other, who answer tyranny with Liberty and fascism with Equality. We shall resist and yield not, and abandon not our fellows.” Resist and fear not, O my brothers and sisters, for in resistance we seize our freedom and become Unconquered.

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