You really must read Thomas Smith’s “Tiny Autobiography in Ten Books,” the latest post on his blog. The books he mentions are worth knowing about, if you don’t already, and his comments are both insightful and charming. And what are your ten books? I’ll be giving some thought to mine….
Great list! I'm still working on mine. It has Lorca, but the Spender/Gili translation. I've never seen the Allen/Lorca edition. Damn!
Off the top of my head (and, as in Thomas Smith's list, the dates here are the approximate time I first encountered the book, not necessarily the publication date):<br /><br />Robert Bly, "The Light Around the Body" (ca. 1970)<br /><br />Gary Snyder, "The Back Country" (probably 1972)<br /><br />Federico Garcia Lorca, "Selected Poems," the edition edited by