I asked out workshop leaders to recommend 10 books. Shannon Phillips, the publisher of Picture Show Press and a truly phenomenal poet suggested these 10:
I love Dick by Chris Kraus (craft;
essays, letters, feminism, memoir - nothing else quite like it)
verisimilitude by Suzanne Allen (craft; experimental poetry)
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Esther Perel
The Sandman: Season of Mistsby Neil Gaiman
Black Girl, Black Girl by Chidi C (new to publishing; on Etsy)
The Swimmer by Joakim Zander (for POV fluctuation done well)
Not One Day by Anne Garréta (craft; OuLiPo; also a gorgeous example of translation)
Glass, Irony & God by Anne Carson (craft; for "The Glass Essay," stunning, also available
online)
Louder Than Hearts: Poems by Zeina Hashem Beck (craft and Arabic language)
Praise to Lesser Gods of Love by Noor Ibn Najam (craft and Arabic language; LGBTQ+ for those who need this voice)
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