At the end of December 2022, I thought I'd update this post of the list of books for the seminars on Contemporary Poetry that I have taught at the English Department of the University of Basel from Fall Semester 2016 to Spring Semester 2022 to include the courses in Fall 2020 and Spring 2022:
Fall 2016
- Ian Duhig, The Blind Roadmaker, Picador 978-1509809813
- Sarah Howe, Loop Of Jade, Chatto & Windus 978-0701188696
- Major Jackson, Roll Deep, Norton 978-0393246896
- Melissa Lee-Houghton, Sunshine, Penned in the Margins 978-1908058386
- Tracy K. Smith, Life On Mars, Graywolf 978-1555975845
- C. Dale Young, The Halo, Four Way Books 978-1935536680
Fall 2017
- Jericho Brown, "The New Testament", Copper Canyon Press 978-1556594571
- Imtiaz Dharker, "Over the Moon", Bloodaxe 978-1780371207
- Rebecca Gayle Howell, "American Purgatory", Eyewear 978-1911335443
- Jee Leong Koh, "Steep Tea", Carcanet 978-1847772275
- Kei Miller, "The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion", Carcanet 978-1847772671
- Patricia Lockwood, "Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals", Penguin 978-0141984865
Spring 2018· Patience Agbabi, Telling Tales, Canongate, 978-1782111573· Sinead Morrissey, On Balance, Carcanet, 978 1 784103 60 6· Pascale Petit, Mama Amazonica, Bloodaxe, 9781780372945· Denise Riley, Say Something Back, Picador, 9781447270379· Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead, Chatto & Windus, 978-1784742041· Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, When the Wanderers Come Home, University of Nebraska Press, 978-0-8032-8857-7Fall 2019· Geoff Brock, "Voices Bright Flags", Waywiser Press 2013, 978-1904130-64-2· Tishani Doshi, "Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods", Bloodaxe 2018, 978-1780371979· Terrance Hayes, "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin", Penguin 2018, 978-0141989112· Joanne Limburg, "The Autistic Alice", Bloodaxe 2017, 978-1780373430· Patricia Smith, "Incendiary Art", Bloodaxe 2019, 978-1780374710· George Szirtes, "Mapping the Delta", Bloodaxe 2016, 978-1780373201Fall 2020
· A. E. Stallings, Like, Farrar Strauss & Giroux 2018, 9780374187323
· Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart, Pavilion Poetry 2020, 9781789621686
· John McCullough, Reckless Paper Birds, Penned in the Margins 2019, 9781908058638
· Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon, Norton 2019, 9780393652147
· Sandra Simonds, Atopia, Wesleyan Poetry 2019, 9780819579041
· Vahni Capildeo, Skin Can Hold, Carcanet 2019, 9781784107314
Spring 2022
· Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, Faber and Faber
· Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Living Weapon, Faber and Faber
· Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem, Faber and Faber
· Mary Jean Chan, Flèche, Faber and Faber
· Vidyan Ravinthiran, The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here, Bloodaxe
· Sumita Chakraborty, Arrow, Carcanet
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