The best poems ever

Some people are curious about what I like to read, other folks want a list of poems that won’t bore them into a coma. Either way, here is a list (in no particular order) of some of my favorite poems.

For copywrite reaons, I can’t post the poems; so just google them, I’m sure you’ll find the texts. This list is a work in progess. Very in progress.

• Robert Haas: Faint Music
• Gary Snyder: Axe Handles, The Bath, plus a million others
  
• Alice Notley: As Good as Anything, I Must Have Called and So He Comes
  
• Yehuda Amichai: Letter of Recommendation; Mayor; Advice for Good Love; A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention
• W.S. Merwin: For a Coming Extinction
  
• Phillip Levine: They Feed They Lion
  
• Theodore Roethke: Big Wind, Root Cellar.
• Pablo Neruda: Always, plus tons of others.
• Octavio Paz: Sunstone
• Derek Walcott: Sea Grapes, Elegy (1968)
  
• Gary Soto: Some Worry, The History of Karate
  
• Alan Ginsburg: Howl, Kaddish, America
• Faye Kicknosway: Cowboy, The Violence of Potatoes, Inheritance, The Day’s Extortion
• Bertold Brecht: Buying Oranges
• Elizabeth Bishop: Visits to St. Elizabeth’s
  
• Adreinne Rich: Still narrowing…
• Rainer Maria Rilke: Palm (from Orchards), Requiem
• Rita Dove: Parsley, Parlor, The Venus of Willendorf
  
• Ted Berrigan: Ten Things I Do Everyday
• Charles Olsen: In Cold Hell, in Thicket
• Jared Carter: For Jack Chatham
• Dorothea Parker: Lyric
• Larry Lewis: The Morning After My Death
• Adam Hammer: Guide to Marine Mammals and Sentence Structure
• Charles Simic: The World Doesn’t End, plus others

ALSO! I am now compiling a list of indubitable import! I proudly present:

THE BEST FISH POEMS OF ALL TIME:
(please add your suggestions)

• Marianne Moore: The Fish
• Elizabeth Bishop: The Fish
• Ted Hughes: The Pike
• D.H. Lawrence: Fish
• G.K. Chesterton: The Fish
• Carl Sandburg: Fish Crier
  
• More to come…