POETRY REVIEWS

By Bob Corbett

For many years now I've been posting reviews of the books I read. I actually started these more for myself than others, since my memory isn't very good, I would find myself rereading books I had already read, and having a sense I'd read this before!

Now I've decided to include books of poetry, or at least a parts of a larger collections. I've started this project in November 2010. Below is the list of these poetry books and my comments on them.

THE YEAR 2014

• Jimenez, Juan Ramon - (Nobel Laureate 1956)   FIFTY SPANISH POEMS   January 2015
  
  
• Von Heidenstam, Verner - (Nobel Laureate 1916)   SELECTED POEMS OF VERNER VON HEIDENSTAM   December 2014
  
  
• Carducci, Giosue- (Nobel Laureate 1906)   POEMS   November 2014
  
  
• Szymborska, Wislawa - (Nobel Laureate 1996)   MIRACLE FAIR - SELECTED POEMS OF WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA   October 2014
  
  
• Sachs, Nellie- (Nobel Laureate 1966)   O THE CHIMNEYS   August 2014
  
  
• Spitteler, Carl - (Nobel Laureate 1919)   SELECTED POEMS OF CARL SPITTELER   August 2014
  
  
• Ward, Candice    WORLD WAR ONE BRITISH POETS BROOKE, OWEN, SASSOON, ROSENBERG AND OTHERS   July 2014
  
  
• Pacifici, Sergio, editor: - (Nobel Laureate Montale, 1975) and (Nobel Laureate Quasimodo, 1959)   THE PROMISED LAND, AND OTHER POEMS: An anthology of four contemporary Italian poets: Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale, Salvatore Quasimodo   July 2014
  
  
• Perse, Saint-John - (Nobel Laureate 1960)   SELECTED POEMS   July 2014
  
  
• Walcott, Derek - (Nobel Laureate 1992)   SELECTED POEMS   June 2014
  
  
• Transtromer, Tomas - (Nobel Laureate 2011)   THE HALF-FINISHED HEAVEN: THE BEST POEMS OF TOMAS TRANSTROMER   May 2014
  
  
• Karlfeldt, Erik - (Nobel Laureate 1930)   ARCADIA BOREALIS: SELECTED POEMS OF ERIK AXEL KARLFELDT   April 2014
  
  
• Mistral,Gabriel- (Nobel Laureate 1944)   SELECTED POEMS OF GABRIELA MISTRAL   April 2014
  
  
• Neruda, Pablo - (Nobel Laureate 2001)   TWENTY LOVE POEMS AND A SONG OF DESPAIR   March 2014
  
  
• Seifert, Jaroslav - (Nobel Laureate 1984)   THE SELECTED POETRY OF JAROSLAV SEIFERT   February 2014
  
  

  THE YEAR 2013

• Brodsky, Josephy - (Nobel Laureate 1987)   COLLECTED POEMS IN ENGLISH (poetry)   December 2013
  
  
• Tagore, Rabindranath - (Nobel Laureate 1930)   FINAL POEMS (poetry)   December 2013
  
  
• Baudelaire, Charles   SELECTED POEMS FROM FLOWERS OF EVIL (poetry)   November 2013
  
  
• Martinson, Harry   CHICKWEED WINTERGREEN -- SELECTED POEMS (poetry)   October 2013
  
  
• Eliot, T.S.    OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS (poetry)   October 2013
  
  
• Aleixandre, Vicente   A LONGING FOR THE LIGHT -- SELECTED POEMS OF VICENTE ALEIXANDRE (poetry)   October 2013
  
  
• Szymborska, Wislawa   PEOPLE ON A BRIDGE (poetry)   February 2013
  
  
• Seferis, George   POEMS (poetry)   August 2013
  
  
• Elytis, Odysseus   SELECTED POEMS (poetry)   July 2013
  
  
• cummings, e.e.   95 poems (poetry)   June 2013
  
  
• Hein, Piet   GROOKS (poetry)   May 2013
  
  
• Milosz, Czeslaw   BELLS IN WINTER (poetry)   February 2013
  
  
• Szymborska, Wislawa   HERE (poetry)   February 2013
  
  
• Milosz, Czeslaw   FACING THE RIVER (poetry)   January 2013
  
  
• Szymborska, Wislawa   with a grain of sand (poetry)   January 2013
  
  

  THE YEAR 2012

• Milosz, Czeslaw   SECOND SPACE - NEW POEMS (poetry)   October 2012
  
  
• Milosz, Czeslaw   PROVINCES (poetry)   September 2012
  
  
• Eliot, T.S.    THE FOUR QUARTETS (poetry)   August 2012
  
  
• Heaney, Seamus   THE SPIRIT LEVEL (poetry)   July 2012
  
  
• Clewell, David   THE LOW END OF HIGHER THINGS (poetry)    February 2012
  
  
• Frost, Robert   THE WORKS OF ROBERT FROST: IN THE CLEARING -- A MASQUE OF REASON -- and A MASQUE OF MERCY (Poetry)   January 2012
  
  

  THE YEAR 2011

• Frost, Robert   THE WORKS OF ROBERT FROST: A WITNESS TREE and STEEPLE BUSH (Poetry)   December 2011
  
  
• Frost, Robert   THE WORKS OF ROBERT FROST: WEST RUNNING BROOK and A FURTHER RANGE (Poetry)   October 2011
  
  
• Frost, Robert   THE WORKS OF ROBERT FROST: MOUNTAIN INTERLUDE and NEW HAMPSHIRE (Poetry)   August 2011
  
  
• Frost, Robert    POEMS -- THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT FROST (Poetry)   July 2011
  
  
• Ferlinghetti Lawrence   STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO (Poetry)   June 2011
  
  
• Lee, David   NEWS FROM DOWN TO THE CAFE (Poetry)   May 2011
  
  
• Dressel, Jon   OUT OF WALES (Poetry)   April 2011
  
  
• Collins, Billy   THE ART OF DROWNING (Poetry)   March 2011
  
  
• Clewell, David   NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE (Poetry)   February 2011
  
  
• Ginsberg, Allen   EMPTY MIRROR (Poetry)   January 2011
  
  

  THE YEAR 2010

• Whitman, Walt   CIVIL WAR POETRY AND PROSE (Poetry)   December 2010
  
  
• Rieke, Susan   SMALL INDULGENCES (Poetry)   November 2010
  
  

  THE YEAR 2009

• Pasternak, Boris   THE POEMS OF DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (Poetry)   June 2009
  
  

  THE YEAR 2005

• Ferlinghett, Lawrence   A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND (Poetry)   November 2005
  
  

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