Events
Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
The year's guest editor, who chose 25 poems for inclusion, was Paula Green. The list appeared at the series website in February 2008.[1]
- Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems, purportedly the "fifth and final" posthumous collection
- William Corbett, Opening Day (Hanging Loose Press, 2008)
- Robert Creeley, Selected Poems, 1945-2005, edited by Benjamin Friedlander, University of California Press
- Mark Doty:
- Theories and Apparitions, London: Jonathan Cape[4]
- Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, New York, HarperCollins[4]
- Jorie Graham, Sea Change Ecco/HarperCollins
- Geoffrey Hill, A Treatise of Civil Power, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0300131499
- John Hollander, A Draft of Light, Knopf (in May), his 19th book of poems
- Devin Johnston, Sources, (Turtle Point Press, 2008)
- Ted Kooser, Valentines, University of Nebraska Press
- David Lehman, editor, The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present (anthology), Scribner
- Jackson Mac Low, Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works (edited by Anne Tardos), (University of California Press)
- George Oppen, Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers (edited by Stephen Cope), (University of California Press) (publication was 2007, but not available until 2008)
- Peter Oresick, Warhol-o-rama, Carnegie Mellon University Press[5]
- Grace Paley, Fidelity (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), posthumous
- Aram Saroyan, Complete Minimal Poems, Ugly Duckling Presse ISBN 978-1933254258
- Leslie Scalapino, It’s go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006, (University of California Press)
- Susan M. Schultz, Dementia Blog, (Singing Horse Press, 2008)
- Frank Stanford:
- The Singing Knives, (Lost Roads, 1979 & 2008)
- You, (Lost Roads, 1979 & 2008)
- David Wagoner, A Map of the Night (University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0252075674)
- Francis X. Walker, When Winter Come: The Ascension of York, University of Kentucky Press
- Mark Yakich, The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine, Penguin
Anthologies in the United States
- Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, editors, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond,W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 9780393332384
- Leslie Pockell and Celia Johnson, editors, 100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits, Grand Central Publishing, ISBN 9780446177955
- Reginald Shepherd, editor, Lyric Postmodernisms: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetries, Counterpath Press, ISBN 9781933996066
- Jason Shinder, John Lithgow, Billy Collins, editors, The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry That Inspires Them, ISBN 9781402205026
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Michael Almereyda, editor, Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky (Macmillan/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), ISBN 9780374281359
- Robert Frost, The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, edited by Mark Richardson; Frost was reluctant to publish his collected prose and even said he lost his notes to the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures he delivered at Harvard in 1936 (Harvard University Press)
- Michael Heller, Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen, Cambridge UK: Salt Publishing
- Michael Palmer, Active Boundaries: Selected Essays and Talks, New Directions (New York, NY), 2008. ISBN 081121754X
- Reginald Shepherd, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, University of Michigan Press
- Jan Ziolkowski and Bridget K. Balint, editors, A Garland of Satire, Wisdom, and History: Latin Verse from Twelfth-Century France (Carmina Houghtoniensia), Harvard University Press, ISBN 0976547279 ISBN 9780976547273
Other in English
These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2008, with David Lehman, general editor, and Charles Wright, guest editor (who selected the poetry) (Scribner ISBN 0743299736):
Works published in other languages
Awards and honors
- Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Carey Powers, Judge: David Roderick; finalists: Willa Granger & Philip Sparks
Deaths
- January 21 – Burton Hatlen, 71, American literary scholar, founding member of the National Poetry Foundation, mentor and teacher to Stephen King, who promoted the work of the Objectivist poets [6] [7]
- February 13 – Raúl Salinas, 73, American poet, complications of liver cancer. [8]
- March 16 – Jonathan Williams, 79, American poet, publisher and founder of The Jargon Society
- April 3 – Andrew Crozier, 64, English poet with connections to American poetry, who edited volumes by American poet Carl Rakosi [9]
- April 17 – Aimé Césaire, 94, French Martiniquan poet and politician. [10]
- April 24 – Jason Shinder, 53, American poet and editor [11]
- June 5 – Eugenio Montejo, 70, Venezuelan poetcitation needed
- July 4 - Thomas M. Disch, 68, American poet and novelist; committed suicide.[12]
- August 9 - Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet; complications following heart surgery.[13]
- September 10 - Reginald Shepherd, 44, American poet, complications from colon cancer[14] [15]
- September 20 - Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, critic and literary historian[16]
- September 29 - Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic [17]
Notes
- ^ Web page titled "Best New Zealand Poetry 2007 / Introduction" at the Best New Zealand Poetry website, accessed April 25, 2008
- ^ a b Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008
- ^ Early collections, from 1978's Extremities to 1995's Made to Seem collected here
- ^ a b Web page titled "Mark Doty Books" at Mark Doty website, accessed May 5, 2008
- ^ Web page at the CMU Press website, accessed July 24, 2008
- ^ UM scholar Hatlen, mentor to Stephen King, dies at 71
- ^ Burton Hatlen 1936 — 2008 A "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links
- ^ Raúl Salinas, poet, teacher and activist, dies: Austin resident and bookstore owner gave voice to Chicano struggle.
- ^ After Rakosi's Selected Poems, published in 1941, Rakosi dedicated himself to social work and apparently neither read nor wrote any poetry at all. A letter from Crozier to Rakosi asking about his early poetry was the trigger that started Rakosi writing again. His first book in 26 years, Amulet was published by New Directions in 1967 and his Collected Poems in 1986 by the National Poetry Foundation.
- ^ Aimé Césaire, Martinique poet, has died
- ^ Service for Shinder
- ^ Ellen Datlow, "Thomas M. Disch (February 2, 1940-July 4, 2008)," sff.discuss.obituaries, 2008-07-06, 15:01
- ^ Mahmoud Darwish: Palestinian 'poet of the resistance'
- ^ Reginald Shepherd: 1963 - 2008; A "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links
- ^ Tribute at Poetry Foundation Shepherd was a frequent contributor to the Poetry Foundation blog called Harriet. Listed here are dozens of tributes and comments from many who were touched in some way by Shepherd and his work
- ^ The Independent obituary
- ^ The Independent obituary
See also
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