Best Books for Fall Reading, 2006
By Book Review Editor Grace Cavalieri
Best Translations
The Golden Age; Poems of the Spanish Renaissance by Edith Grossman. W.W. Norton & Company, c2006. 201 pgs.
ISBN: 978-0-393-06038-6
The Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Keith Waldrop. Wesleyan University Press, c2006. 187 pgs.
ISBN: 978-0-8195-6799-4
Best Book of Poems
Spirits Distilled by Jeffrey Coleman. Red Hen Press, c2006 88 pgs.
ISBN: 1-59709-049-2
Best Literary Journal
Gargoyle 51, edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody. Paycock Press, c2006. 334 pgs.
ISBN: 0-931181-23-2
Best Essays
A Circular Journey by Helen Barolini. Fordham University Press, c2006. 210 pgs.
ISBN: 978-0-8232-2615-3
Best Young People's Literature
Sister Chicas, A Novel , Co-Authors: Lisa Alvarado, Ann Hagman Cardinal, and Jane Alberdeston Coralin. New American Library, Penguin Books , c2006. 264 pgs.
ISBN: 0-451-21770-5
Best Poetry Anthologies
Cotton And Spirit. Frog on the Moon Press, c2006. 100 pgs.
ISBN: 1-59975-468-1
The Dire Elegies, edited by Karla Linn Merrifield. FootHills Publishing, c 2006. 128 pgs.
ISBN: 0-941053-93-8
The Light Of City And Sea, edited by Daniel Thomas Moran. Street Press, c2006.194 pgs.
ISBN: 0-935252-70-3
Best Interviews
BreakingThe Alabaster Jar; Conversations with Li-Young Lee, edited by Earl G. Ingersoll.
BOA Editions, c2006.184 pgs.
ISBN:1-929918-82-8
Best Print Poetry Magazine Series
OCHO, edited by DiDi Menendez, Menendez Publication available through LuLu, c2006. MIPOesias Magazine
AND ALL THE BEST BOOKS FOR FALL 2006 , in no particular order
Probable Lives, poems by Felipe Benitez Reyes, translated by Aaron Zaritzky. BOA Edition, c2006. 159 pgs.
ISBN: 1-929918-80-1
White Apples and the Taste of Stone, by Donald Hall. Houghton Mifflin Company, c2006.414 pgs.
ISBN: 9780-618-53721-1
Darling Vulgarity, by Michael Waters. BOA Editions. c2006. 84 pgs.
ISBN: 1-929918-85-2
The Burning Of Troy by Richard Foerster. BOA Editions, c2006. 86 pgs.
ISBN:1-929918-83-6
Remorseless Loyalty by Christine Gelineau .The Ashland Poetry Press, c2006.78 pgs.
ISBN:
0-912592-57-5
Haywire by George Bilgere.Utah State University Press, c2006. 57 pgs.
ISBN: 978-0-87421-646-2
Love's Skin by Brandon D. Johnson. The Word Works, c2006.80 pgs.
ISBN: 0-915380-63-3
Splendor by Steve Kronen.BOA Editions, c2006.66 pgs.
ISBN: 1-929918-78-X
Everything Else In The World by Stephen Dunn.W.W. Norton & Company, c2006. 91 pgs.
ISBN: 978-0-393-06239-7
The Blue Door by Yoko Danno & James Hopkins. The Word Works, c2006. 83 pgs.
ISBN: 0-915380-62-5
Flowers of a Moment by Ko Un. Translated by Brother Anthony, Young-moo Kim, and Gary Gach.
BOA Editions, c2006. 100 pgs.
ISBN: 1-929918-88-7
Fullest Tide by Ann Silsbee, CustomWords, c2006. 243 pgs.
ISBN: 1933456183
The Port (chapbook) by Kathleen Aponick. Finishing Line Press, c2006. 29 pgs.
ISBN: 1-59924-069-6
Grace Cavalieri is a poet and playwright. She produces and hosts "The Poet and the Poem" from the Library of Congress.