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<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Henry <span class=SpellE>Rago</span> in the 1950s<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There is <span style='color:black'>a meme going round &#8211; identify the 20 books that first caused you to fall in love with poetry. I first ran into it on <a href="http://unitedstatesean.blogspot.com/2009/02/20-poetry-books-that-made-me-fall-in.html"><span style='color:black'>Javier Huerta&#8217;s blog</span></a> &amp; have since seen it several other times. That&#8217;s an interesting, nagging proposition. It&#8217;s quite different, actually, from the question posed by Peter Davis in his <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poets&#8217; Bookshelf </i>series, which asks about those books that have most influenced you, although obviously there is going to be overlap. But the question here seems more to be what got you here in the first place, what work made poetry the art you love. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I tried to come up with a list of twenty, and as you can see below, couldn&#8217;t really do it. Any item off the list below would fundamentally falsify the list. It has 31 lines and since one line consists of three items, my roster comes to 33. These aren&#8217;t the first books of poetry I read (Lawrence <span class=SpellE>Ferlinghetti</span>, Robert Frost, Oscar Williams &amp; Alan Dugan would be on that list &#8211; Dugan is the only one of the four I still read with interest today). And I could do another circle around this of other books from this same time period &#8211; basically 1960s into the earliest part of the &#8216;70s &#8211; that certainly did not hurt, including volumes by Roger Shattuck, Donald Finkel, George Starbuck or Robert Sward that might surprise you. <span class=GramE>David <span class=SpellE>Ossman&#8217;s</span> collection of interviews, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Sullen Art, </i>Ed Dorn&#8217;s </span></span><st1:place><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>North Atlantic</span></i></span></st1:place><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Turbine.</span></i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I thought long and hard about adding the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Genesis West </i>issue partly devoted to Jack Gilbert (it is still his best publication) or a second Oppen book (in this order: <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Discrete Series&#185;, <span class=GramE>The</span> Materials, Of Being Numerous</i>), but such volumes are really ancillary to the list below. If I added one more name, I&#8217;d suddenly have to let in a whole bunch of the New York School (Starting in this order: <span class=SpellE>Ashbery&#8217;s</span> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Rivers and Mountains, </i><span class=SpellE>Ceravolo&#8217;s</span> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Spring in This World of Poor Mutts, </i>O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Lunch Poems </i>&amp; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Meditations in an Emergency</i>, David Shapiro <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poems from Deal</i>), and the first books of my immediate peers, beginning in this instance with David <span class=SpellE>Melnick&#8217;s</span> <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Eclogs</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i>&amp; Barrett <span class=SpellE>Watten&#8217;s</span> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Radio Day in Soma City. </i>So I will keep my list of 20 just to the 33 volumes below, listed here in alphabetical order. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Donald Allen (editor), <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New American Poetry</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Paul Blackburn, <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Cities<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Robert Creeley, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Words<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Robert Creeley, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Pieces<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Robert Duncan, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Bending the Bow<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jack Gilbert, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Views of Jeopardy <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Allen Ginsberg, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Howl<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Allen Ginsberg, <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Fall of </i></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><i   style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:  Arial'>America</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ronald Johnson, <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Book of the Green Man<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ronald Johnson, <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Robert Kelly, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Axon <span class=SpellE>Dendron</span> Tree<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Robert Kelly, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Twenty Poems<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Robert Kelly &amp; Paris Leary (editors), <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>A Controversy of Poets</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>George Oppen, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>This in Which<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Charles Olson, <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Distances<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ezra Pound, <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Cantos<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Henry <span class=SpellE>Rago</span> (editor), <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry </i>double issues (<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Fiftieth Anniversary</i>, Oct.-Nov. 1962; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Works in Progress &#8211; Long Poems &#8211; Sequences</i>, Oct.-Nov. 1963, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Works in Progress &#8211; Long Poems &#8211; Sequences, </i>April-May 1965)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jack Spicer, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Language<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Gertrude Stein, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Writing and Lectures 1909 <span style='color:black'>&#8211;</span> 1945 </i>(esp.<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Tender Buttons</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jonathan Williams, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Amen, Huzzah, Selah<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>William Carlos Williams, <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Desert Music<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Louis Zukofsky, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>&#8220;A&#8221; 1-12</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Louis Zukofsky, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>&#8220;A&#8221; 22-23<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Louis Zukofsky (editor), <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry </i>(<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The &#8220;Objectivist&#8221; issue, </i>February 1931)<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I&#8217;m very conscious just how very white and very male this list is. My argument would be that it was the time. I had hoped that meeting Denise Levertov when she came to </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Berkeley</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> would cause me to get over my resistance to her poetry, but instead it showed me why I was better off trusting my instincts. Joanne <span class=SpellE>Kyger&#8217;s</span> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Tapestry and the Web </i>isn&#8217;t my favorite volume of her poetry, and <span class=SpellE>Bev</span> Dahlen wasn&#8217;t yet bringing out books. <span style='color:black'>This list I think shows just how profound &amp; radical the impact of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/print_archive/index.htm"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>HOW(</span></span><span style='color:black'>ever)</span></a> </i>has been, but that journal didn&#8217;t start until 1983 when I was already 37 years old. </span>Similarly, the first two poets of color whose work I genuinely would love &#8211; Erica Hunt &amp; Lorenzo Thomas &#8211; were really unknown to me at the time. Erica may still have been in high school. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The situation of <span class=SpellE>Bev</span> Dahlen also points to another feature of this list &#8211; it&#8217;s book-centric. Poets like George Stanley &amp; David <span class=SpellE>Gitin</span> had a profound impact on me in my early years, but not because of any specific books of theirs that were available then. Ditto John Gorham &amp; I don&#8217;t know that this once-upon-a-time student of Robert Kelly&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>ever</i> had a book published. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Looking at that list today, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s one bad book on it. I still think those two Norton volumes are Ronald Johnson&#8217;s best work, even though they aren&#8217;t the ones people focus on most today. And it&#8217;s interesting to me to realize that only one collection by Charles Olson &#8211; and not of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Maximus </i>&#8211; would be on this list. I have a deep interest in Olson, but until the complete <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Maximus </i>was in print, that volume seemed scattered. Another very conspicuous absence is Larry Eigner &#8211; I loved his work wherever I read it, but that was as apt to be in journals as books (or, for that matter, on postcards), and even if he&#8217;s one of my half-dozen favorite poets, I don&#8217;t have anything like a favorite book. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Another surprise might be Jack Gilbert, whom some will read as the only </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>School</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Quietude</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> poet on this list. Jack&#8217;s Yale Younger Poets&#8217; volume, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Views of Jeopardy<span style='color:black'>, </span></i><span style='color:black'>really is the Gilbert of Jack Spicer&#8217;s Magic Workshop as much, if not more, than it is the protégé of Gerald Stern &amp; Stephen Spender. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>It might also surprise people to see four separate issues of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry </i>here<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>, </i>given that I haven&#8217;t been all that wowed by the quality of that journal&#8217;s work over the 40 since <a href="http://www.henryrago.com/"><span style='color:black'>Henry <span class=SpellE>Rago</span></span></a> had a fatal heart attack while on a sabbatical. The 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary issue brought together &#8211; in alphabetical order &#8211; many of the best known poets in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, starting with Conrad Aiken &amp; Ben <span class=SpellE>Belitt</span> &amp; ending with Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, James Wright &amp; Louis Zukofsky. In practice, the issue also functioned as an announcement by <span class=SpellE>Rago</span>, who had been the journal&#8217;s editor since 1955, that he no longer was going to focus exclusively on the academic poets of mid-century &amp; while the issue has Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Randall Jarrell, Stanley <span class=SpellE>Kunitz</span>, James Dickey, James Merrill, W. S. <span class=SpellE>Merwin</span>, Howard Moss, Howard <span class=SpellE>Nemerov</span>, <span class=SpellE>Delmore</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Schwartz &amp; the other usual suspects, it also includes Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Kenneth Koch &amp; <span class=SpellE>e.e</span>. cummings. Koch, it might be worth noting, is the only </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>New York</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>School</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> poet here, and the Beats are likewise conspicuously absent. This issue had the first Berryman &#8220;Dream Songs&#8221; I believe I ever read &amp; it wouldn&#8217;t shock me to realize that I bought it for the Alan Dugan therein. By the 1965 double issue, post-avants made up exactly half of the 18 poets contained in its 172 pages, including Creeley, Duncan, Johnson, Koch, Levertov, Olson, Gary Snyder, Gale Turnbull &amp; Phil Whalen. The conservative poets included Wendell Berry, Hayden <span class=SpellE>Carruth</span>, Galway <span class=SpellE>Kinnell</span>, David Posner, Ernest <span class=SpellE>Sandeen</span>, Anne Sexton, and Theodore Weiss. One could argue either way about the last poet, Charles Tomlinson (tho these are eight poems from his <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>American Scenes </i>period, his work most deeply influenced by Creeley &amp; Williams). Am I the only one who would argue that the <span class=SpellE>posties</span> have aged much better over the last 44 years? Turnbull &#8211; a fine poet &#8211; is the only <span class=SpellE>postie</span> who has not yet achieved some sort of canonic status. Posner &amp; <span class=SpellE>Sandeen</span>, on the other hand, have disappeared entirely from view, and <span class=SpellE>Carruth</span> &amp; Weiss, whatever their relative merits, are no more widely read than Turnbull. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There is a liveliness to the <span class=SpellE>Rago</span> double issues that they share with two of the other anthologies on my list, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New American Poetry </i>&amp; <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>A</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Controversy of Poets. </i>Like the Kelly-Leary anthology, Rago&#8217;s <span class=SpellE>trifecta</span> does try to include all kinds of American poetry. The first &#8211; and to my thinking, still the only serious &#8211; attempt to heal the wound between the two traditions of American verse. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When <span class=SpellE>Rago</span> died, his interim replacement, Daryl <span class=SpellE>Hine</span>, took over &#8211; this was more akin to losing Obama &amp; getting Gov. <span class=SpellE>Palin</span> in his place. <span class=SpellE>Hine</span> &amp; his successors have generally kept the coup intact. Even though the Poetry Foundation &#8211; by now the more important institution over there &#8211; has emerged as a heterogeneous site for American poetry, the verse actually printed in the journal, with a few notable exceptions (vispo!), still covers the waterfront mostly from A to B as if we were still living prior to 1962.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When I see the other lists that are emerging on the web of people&#8217;s 20 books, I realize just radically different the world has become from what it was in my youth. There are relatively few times when I envy younger people, but the greater diversity of what any young poet was reading who came up in the 1980s or &#8216;90s strikes me as a mode of richness we should not underestimate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#185; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Discrete Series </i>is a volume that has had a greater impact on me over time, but I never would have gotten to it without <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>This</i> </span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> in Which.</i></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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