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House of light (1990)★ 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1990In “The Summer Day,” a grasshopper takes sugar from the speaker’s hand, washes its face, and opens its wings. The poem gets its scale from how long Oliver stays with that one insect. On your next warm walk, pause where you can see something small move from one task to the next.0 - 2
The Hurting Kind (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022In “Give Me This,” a groundhog stealing green tomatoes gives Limón a reason to watch an animal she could have shooed away. She follows its awkward motion and considers the patch from the animal’s side. That is a good habit to borrow in a garden or a vacant lot where you already think you know what…0 - 3
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2015Start with the fig tree at Ninth and Christian in Philadelphia. People stop for ripe figs, and one person’s snack turns into a small gathering. After reading it, pay attention to what gives strangers an excuse to pause together on a block you usually pass through.0 - 4
Let evening come (1990)Published Jan 1, 1990The title poem tracks dusk through the last light on the barn, a cricket beginning to sing, and dew gathering. Read it before the short walk you usually take just as the day is ending. The repeated invitation to let evening arrive gives you time to register which sound comes forward as the light…0 - 5
Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser BeastsLanham’s poems and brief prose pieces move between listening to cicadas, tracking sandpipers and towhees, and watching the people at a birding gathering. Take it on a walk you usually spend hunting for a name or a sighting. It makes room for who gets to be comfortable looking and listening, and…0 - 6
Spring and all (1923)Published Jan 1, 1923At the start of the book, the road to a hospital runs past dried weeds, patches of water, and small trees. Williams lets that bleak stretch take up space before anything green emerges. Read the opening before a late-winter walk along a ditch or a bare roadside, where you can see spring getting…0 - 7
Poems (1956)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1956In “Sandpiper,” the outgoing wash makes a strip of sand into a landscape full of distinct grains. Bishop stays with the bird’s downward gaze long enough to see colors in what looks uniform from standing height. It is a good poem for a shore walk when the view keeps drawing your eyes straight out to…0 - 8
The rain in the trees (1987)★ 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1987“Rain at Night” follows the sound of water racing along tiles and wind moving in old trees. The storm is partly out of sight, which makes listening do more of the work. Try the poem after dark, when a familiar tree or roof comes back into focus by the sound it makes.0 - 9
The wild iris (1992)★ 8.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1992Garden flowers speak in these poems. In “The Silver Lily,” the full moon returns late in the growing season, bringing back the memory of moonlight on the first daffodil leaves. The poem gives you a reason to revisit one flower bed at different times of year and see what the same light falls on.0 - 10
Lake Superior (2013)Published Jan 1, 2013Niedecker’s compact poem finds traces of rock in living things, and the accompanying travel journal notices iron ore and fisheries around the lake. Read a few notebook lines alongside the poem. On a shore path, you may find yourself looking down at the stones and wondering what else they are part…0
