Here are the reading lists offered up by some of the participants in the low-residency MFA program discussion.
Cheryl Wilder – Vermont
1st Semester
Bachelard, Gaston. Poetics of Space. Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 1994.
Gilbert, Jack. The Great Fires. New York: Knopf, 1994.
Gallagher, Tess. Moon Crossing Bridge. Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1992.
Levertov, Denise. Selected Poems. New York: New Direction, 2002.
Levine, Phil. Breath. New York: Knopf, 2004.
Merwin, W.S. Present Company. Washington: Copper Canyon, 2005.
Radnoti, Miklos. Forced March. London: Enitharmon, 2004.
Rybcinski, Witold. Home: A Short History of an Idea. New York: Penguin Nooks, 1987.
Simic, Charles. Sixty Poems. New York: Harcourt, 2007.
Simic, Charles. That Little Something. Florida: Harcourt, 2008.
Strand, Mark. Selected Poems. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Symborska, Wistowa. Poems New and Selected. Florida: Harcourt, 1998.
2nd Semester
Amichai, Yehuda. Selected Poems. Trans. Chana Bloch, Stephen Mitchell. Berkeley: U. of California Press. 1986
Baressi, Dorothy. All of the Above. Boston: Beacon Press. 1991.
Davis, Olena K. And Her Soul our of Nothing. Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press. 1997.
Dobyns, Stephen. Best Words Best Order. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003.
Emmanuel, Lynn. The Diag and Hotel Fiesta. Urbana and Chicago. U. of Illinois Press. 1995.
Gluck, Louise. The House on Marshland. New York: The Ecco Press. 1975.
Goldberg, Beckian Fritz. In the Badlands of Desire.Cleveland: Cleveland St. Poetry Center.1993.
Gregg, Linda. In the Middle Distance. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press. 2006.
Halliday, Mark. Tasker Street. Amherst: The U. Of Massachusetts Press. 1992.
Hardy, Thomas. Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems. Ed, James Gibson. New York: Palgrave. 2001.
Hikmet, Nazim. Selected Poems. London: The Chaucer Press. 1967.
Howe, Marie. What the Living Do. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1999.
Johnson, Denis. The Incognito Lounge. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon U. Press. 2007.
Kees, Weldon. The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees. Ed. Donald Justice. Nebraska: U. of Nebraska Press. 2003.
Kenyon, Jane. Collected Poems. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press. 2005.
Levis, Larry. Selected Poems: Revised Edition. Ed. Ed Ochester. Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh Press. 2003.
McBride, Mekeel. Dog Star Delicatessen: New and Selected Poems: 1979-2006. Pittsburgh:Carnegie Mellon U. Press. 2006.
Myers, Jack, Wukasch, Don C. Dictionary of Poetic Terms. Denton: U. of North Texas Press. 2003.
Myers, Jack. The Glowing River. Montpelier: Invisible Cities Press. 2001.
Neruda, Pablo. Extravagaria. Trans. Alastair Reid. 3rd ed. Austin: U. of Texas Press. 1996.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Red Suitcase. Rochester: BOA Editions. 1994.
O’Hara, Frank. Selected Poems. New York: Alfred Knopf. 2008.
Orr, Gregory. The Caged Owl. Port Towsend: Copper Canyon Press. 2002.
Prado, Adelia. The Alphabet in the Park. Ytans. Ellen Watson. Hanover: Wesleyan U. Press. 1990.
Reverdy, Pierre. Selected Poems. Trans. John Ashberry, Mary ann Caws, Patricia Terry. Ed. Timothy Bent. Winston-Salem. Wake Forest U. Press. 1991.
Roethke, Theodore. The Far Field.Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1964.
Rosser, J. Allyn. Misery Pre-figured. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Crab Orchard Review with Southern Illinois U. Press. 2001.
Ruefle, Mary. Among the Muskox People. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon U. Press. 2002.
Transtromer, Tomas. Selected Poems: 1954-1986. Trans. Robert Bly, Robin Fulton, May Swenson, Samueal Charters, John F. Deane, Joanna Bankier, Eric Sellin. Ed. Robert Hass. Hopewell: The Ecco Press. 1987.
Williams, C.K. Collected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2006.
Wright, James. Above the River: The Complete Poems. 2nd ed. Hanover: Wesleyan U. Press Edition. 1992.
3rd Semester
Boruch, Mary Anne. “Line and Poem.” Michigan Quarterly Review. 1997.
Carson, Anne. Plain Water. Vintage Books. New York. 1995.
Myers, Jack; Wukasch Don C. Dictionary of Poetic Terms. Universoty of North Texas Press. North Denton. 2003.
Gregerson, Linda. The Woman Who Died in her Sleep. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston.1996.
Hammer, Louis. “Architecture and the Poetry of Space.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Summer, 1981). pp. 381-388. www.jstor.org/stable/430237.
Kees, Weldon. Collected Poems. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln. 2003.
Kelly, Brigit Peegan. Song. BOA Editions, Inc. Rochester. 1995.
Loganbach, James. The Art of the Poetic Line. Greywolf Press. Saint Paul. 2008.
Matthews, William. “Lines.” Curiosities. The University Of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. 1989.
Perillo, Lucia. Luck is Luck. Random House. New York. 2005.
Ponge, Francis. Selected Poems. Trans. by C.K. Williams, John Montague, Margaret Guiton. Ed.
Margaret Guiton. Wake Forest University Press. Wake Forest. 2003.
Prospere, Susan. Sub Rosa. W.W. Norton & Compoany. New York. 1992.
Rybicki, John. We Bed Down Into Water. Northwestern Univeraity Press. Evanston. 2008.
Stern, Gerald. This Time: New and Selected Poems. W.W. Norton & Company. New York. 1998.
Wright, C.D. Deep Step Come Shining. Cooper Canyon Press. Port Townsend. 1998.
Wright, Charles. “Improvisations on Form and Measure.” Half Life. The University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. 1988.
Young, Dean. Beloved Infidel. Hollyridge Press. Venice. 2004.
4th Semester
Emmanuel, Lynn. The Dig and Hotel Fiesta. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
Harvey, Matthea. Pity is the Bathtub its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. Farmington: Alice James Books, 2000.
Johnson, Denis. The Incognito Lounge. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon U. Press, 2007.
Lee, Li-Young. Rose. Rochester: BOA Editions, 1986.
Manning, Maurice. Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions. New Haven: Yale University,2001.
Mullen, Harryette. Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PerM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006.
Orr, Gregory. Poetry as Survival. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2002.
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel: The Restored Edition. London: Faber and Faber, 2007.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters To A Young Poet. Trans. Reginald Snell. Mineola: Dover Publications, 2002.
Sexton, Anne. Selected Poems of Anne Sexton. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
Smith, Charlie. Heroin and Other Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
St. John, David. The Red Leaves of Night. New York: Harperperennial, 1999.
Stern, Gerald. Bread Without Sugar. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.
Volkman, Karen. Spar. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.
Wrigley, Robert. Lives of the Animals. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
Laurie Saurborn Young – Warren Wilson
Ammons, A.R. Garbage. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1993.
Ashbery, John. Selected Poems. New York: Penguin Books, 1985.
Auden, W. H. As I Walked Out One Evening. New York: Vintage International, 1995.
Auster, Paul, ed. The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry. New York: Vintage Books, 1982.
Barnett, Catherine. Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced. Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books, 2004.
Bidart, Frank. In the Western Night: Collected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
Bishop, Elizabeth. The Complete Poems, 1927-1979. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.
Boland, Eavan. Outside History. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1990.
Boruch, Marianne. In the Blue Pharmacy. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2005.
Brock-Broido, Lucie. The Master Letters. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Carson, Anne. Men in the Off Hours. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.
Carson, Anne. The Beauty of the Husband. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.
Carson, Anne. Decreation. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.
Dickey, James. The Selected Poems. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1998.
Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1961.
Dickinson, Emily. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: The Modern Library, 2000.
Dischell, Stuart. Backwards Days. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Dobyns, Stephen. Best Words, Best Order. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Eliot, T. S. The Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1943.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land and Other Poems. New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005.
Fairchild, B.H. The Art of the Lathe. Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books, 1998.
Forche, Carolyn. Blue Hour. New York: Perennial, 2003.
Frost, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Frost. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1969.
Fry, Stephen. The Ode Less Traveled: Unlocking the Poet Within. New York: Gotham, 2005.
Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter & Poetic Form. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.
Gander, Forrest. A Faithful Existence. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
Gilbert, Jack. Monolithos. Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984.
Glück, Louise. The Wild Iris. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.
Glück, Louise. The Seven Ages. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
Glück, Louise. The Meadowlands. Hopewell: The Ecco Press, 1996.
Graham, Jorie. The End of Beauty. Hopewell, New Jersey: The Ecco Press, 1987.
Graham, Jorie. The Dream of the Unified Field. New York: Ecco, 1995.
Gregg, Linda. Alma. St. Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2002.
Gregg, Linda. Too Bright to See. St. Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2002.
Hall, Donald. Claims for Poetry. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1982.
Hall, Donald. The Painted Bed. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Hass, Robert. Human Wishes. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 1989.
Hass, Robert. Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 1984.
Hass, Robert. The Essential Haiku. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 1994.
Hass, Robert. Time and Materials. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007.
Heaney, Seamus. Homage to Robert Frost. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 1998.
Hillman, Brenda. Bright Existence. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1993.
Hillman, Brenda. Fortress. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
Hix, H. L. Shadows of Houses. Youngstown, Ohio: Etruscan Press, 2005.
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Poems and Prose. London: Penguin Group, 1985.
Hughes, Ted. Collected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
Hugo, Richard. Making Certain It Goes On. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984.
Jamie, Kathleen. Waterlight. St. Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2007.
Jarrell, Randall. Poetry and the Age. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Kalstone, David. Becoming a Poet. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1989.
Kasischke, Laura. Fire & Flower. Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books, 1998.
Kasischke, Laura. What It Wasn’t. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press,2002.
Keats, John. Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing, 2004.
Kinzie, Mary. A Poet’s Guide to Poetry. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,1999.
Koch, Kenneth. A Possible World. New York: Knopf, 2004.
Koch, Kenneth. Hotel Lambosa. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1993.
Larkin, Philip. Collected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
Levine, Phillip. What Work Is. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Levine, Phillip. New Selected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Longenbach, James. The Resistance to Poetry. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Lowell, Robert. Life Studies and For the Union Dead. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964.
Lowell, Robert. Selected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.
Manning, Maurice. Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Manning, Maurice. Bucolics. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc., 2007.
Moore, Marianne. Complete Poems. New York: Macmillian Publishing Co., Inc.,1981.
O’Hara, Frank. Lunch Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964.
Oliver, Mary. Rules for the Dance. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Oppen, George. New Collected Poems. New York: New Directions Books, 2002.
Palmer, Michael. The Promises of Glass. New York: New Directions Books, 2000.
Perloff, Marjorie. The Poetics of Indeterminacy. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1981.
Prado, Adelia. The Alphabet in the Park. Trans. Ellen Watson. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1990.
Revell, Donald, ed. The Self-Dismembered Man. Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2004.
Robertson, Robin. Swithering. New York: Harcourt, 2006.
Ruefle, Mary. Tristimania. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004.
Ruefle, Mary. Indeed I Was Pleased With The World. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007.
Simic, Charles. The World Doesn’t End. New York: Harcourt, 1989.
Tate, James. Selected Poems. Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press, 1991.
Tate, James. Worshipful Company of Fletchers. New York: Ecco, 1994.
Tate, James. The Route as Briefed. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Tate, James. Memoir of the Hawk. New York: Ecco, 2001.
Warren, Robert Penn. “Audubon: A Vision.” Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren. Baton Rogue: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Williams, William Carlos. Pictures from Brueghel. New York: New Directions Publishing Company, 1967.
Williams, William Carlos. “Spring and All.” The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volume I, 1909-1939. New York: New Directions, 1986.
Williamson, Alan. Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Wright, Charles. Negative Blue. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.
Wright, Charles. Buffalo Yoga. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004.
Wright, Charles. Scar Tissue. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006.
Wright, James. Above the River: The Complete Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
Young, Dean. Ready-Made Bouquet. Devon, England: Stride Publications, 2005.
Zagajewski, Adam. Tremor: Selected Poems. Trans. Renata Gorczynski. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.
Whit Coppedge – Bennington
Summer/Fall 2001 – Maria Flook:
Sherman Alexie The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Andrea Barrett Ship Fever
Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds
Charles Baxter Through the Safety Net and Relative Stranger
John Cheever Collected Stories
Anton Chekhov A Doctor’s Visit and Other Stories and Ward Six and Other Stories
Andre Dubus Selected Stories
Deborah Eisenberg Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
M.F.K. Fisher The Gastronomical Me
Graham Greene Brighton Rock
Ron Hansen Nebraska
Thom Jones Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine
Carson McCullers Reflections in a Golden Eye
Alice Munro Moons of Jupiter
Mark Richard Fishboy
Luc Sante The Factory of Facts
Tobias Wolff The Night in Question and In the Garden of North American Martyrs
Richard Yates Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Winter/Spring 2002, Amy Hempel:
Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio
Donald Antrim Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
Sir Richard Burton (trans) The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Albert Camus The Plague
Ron Carlson The News of the World
Lydia Davis Samuel Johnson is Indignant
James Dickey Poems: 1957-1967
Stuart Dybek Coast of Chicago
Graham Greene The Power and the Glory
Jane Hirshfield Given Sugar, Given Salt
Albert Jarry The Ubu Plays
James Joyce Dubliners
Rick Moody Demonology
Vladimir Nabokov Lectures on Literature
Sharon Olds The Wellspring
Ann Pancake Given Ground
Padgett Powell Edisto
Richard Powers Plowing the Dark
Mary Robison Why Did I Ever
Therese Svoboda Cannibal
Richard Schmitt The Aerialist
Diane Williams This is About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate
Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse
Richard Yates Liars in Love
Summer/Fall 2002 Sheila Kohler:
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Franz Kafka “In the Penal Colony”, “The Hunger Artist”, and “Metamorphosis”
Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier
Thomas Mann “Death in Venice” and “Mario and the Magician”
Italo Calvino Invisible Cities
Albert Camus The Stranger
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Donald Antrim The Hundred Brothers
Philip Roth The Human Stain
J M Coetzee Disgrace
Mark Costello Big If
Nathaniel West Miss Lonelyhearts and Day of the Locust
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
Margot Livesey Eva Moves the Furniture
Alice Munro Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Claire Messud The Hunters
Graham Greene The End of The Affair
Saul Bellow Herzog
Jean Rhys Quartet
Winter/Spring 2003, Martha Cooley -
T.S. Elio “The Wasteland”
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Wallace Stevens Selected Poems
Randall Jarrell essay
Herman Melville “Benito Cereno”
Jose Saramago Blindness
Anne Carson Autobiography of Red
Italo Calvino Six Memos for the Next Millenium
Borges Assorted ficciones
Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Edward Carey Observatory Mansions
Henry James “The Lesson of the Master” and “The Figure in the Carpet”
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