EVER HOSPITABLE TO POETRY

The St. Helena Public Library has a generous section of free books, mostly culled from donations. Yesterday, I picked up these works by poets. I'm not anymore interested in these poets than in others -- but sections of my poetry library do operate as, ahem, retirement homes for discarded poetry books. Which is interesting in that my poetry library, then, is not necessarily an accurate reflection of my own interests. Well, except insofar as that I believe a poetry book deserves a hospitable shelf as its home. Come to think of it, that's an important insofar...for someone who approaches poetry deliberately as a non-critic. Anyways, here are the ex-homeless books now relaxing at home with hospitable Moi:

EYE OF THE WOMB by Susan Suntree

MYTHS & TEXTS by Gary Snyder

THE KABIR BOOK: FORTY-FOUR OF THE ECSTATIC POEMS OF KABIR, versions by Robert Bly

A CONTINUOUS HARMONY: ESSAYS CULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL by Wendell Berry

SOLITUDES CROWDED WITH LONELINESS by Bob Kaufman

OSIP MANDELSTAM: SELECTED POEMS, a bilingual edition translated by David McDuff

GIANT NIGHT by Anne Waldman

SHADOWING MAN by William Cody

EARTH HOUSE HOLD by Gary Snyder