All tea, no shade: the queens spill their favorite--and least favorite--books from beloved poets. As the great poet said, "If equal affection cannot be..." etc, etc.Please support Breaking Form by:Reviewing Breaking Form on Apple Podcasts here. Buying our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.We mention the following poets and books:Sharon OldsBalladz The Gold CellThe Dead and the LivingBlood, Tin, StrawStag's LeapOdesThe Unswept Room Terrance HayesAmerican Sonnet for My Past and Future AssassinWind in a Box LightheadHow to Be DrawnAnne SextonLive or DieTransformations45 Mercy StreetLouise GlückFirstborn The Triumph of AchillesMeadowlandsArarat. "The Untrustworthy Speaker" that James references appears in Ararat and can be read here.AvernoVita Nova; James quotes one of the title poems, "Vita Nova" (read it here). Watch Louise Glück read with Katie Peterson here (~1 hour).Mark DotySource. Read "At the Gym" which you can read here.Atlantis. Aaron references the lines "... lucky we don’t have to know / what something is in order to hold it," which is from the section titled "Michael's Dream" in the title poem of Atlantis.My AlexandriaTurtle, Swan. Read the title poem here. Anne CarsonAutobiography of RedGlass, Irony and GodFloatNoxMarie HoweThe Kingdom of Ordinary TimeWhat the Living DoThe Good ThiefMagdalene Aaron references Robley Wilson's Kingdoms of the Ordinary, published by the Pitt Poetry Series on Oct. 1, 1987.Ama Codjoe's website is https://www.amacodjoe.com. Her book, Bluest Nude, was published by Milkweed in 2022. Nancy Krygowski is the author of The Woman in the Corner, named one of 2020’s top 100 poetry books by Library Journal, and Velocity, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She teaches in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops and is a member of the Pitt Poetry Series interim editorial committee.

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