Margaretta Mitchell

Both a book and an audiobook, this gorgeous volume features black and white portraits of poetry luminaries like Galway Kinnell, Gary Snyder, Robert Pinsky, Sharon Olds, Maxine Hong Kingston ... plus biographical pieces on every poet, plus audio recordings of readings. An education in contemporary poetry, built around the Lunch Poems reading series at UC Berkeley.

Short excerpt:
Sometimes the sight of them
Huddled in their cylindrical formation
Repels me: humble, erect,
Mute and expetant in their
Rinsed-out honey crock: my quiver
Of detached stingers. (Or, a bouquet
Of lies and intentions unspent.)

-- from "Jar of Pens", Robert Pinsky, p.87… (més)