Thesis Book List (final version)

1. Julia Kasdorf - Sleeping Preacher
2. Denise Duhamel - The Star-Spangled Banner
3. Malena Mörling - Ocean Avenue
4. Dorianne Laux - Awake
5. Ann Townsend - Dime Store Erotics
6. Kim Addonizio - Tell Me
7. Richard Hugo - The Lady at Kicking Horse Reservoir [1]
8. James Wright - The Branch Will Not Break [2]
9. Galway Kinnell - The Book of Nightmares
10. Jack Gilbert - The Great Fires
11. Tony Hoaglund - What Narcissism Means To Me
12. Mark Halliday - Selfwolf
13. Phillip Levine - What Work Is
14. Franz Wright - The Beforelife
15. James Harms - Modern Ocean
    

[1] from Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo
[2] from Above the River: The Complete Poems

Alternates:

• Paul Guest - Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World
• Sandra Alcosser - Except by Nature
• Campbell McGrath - American Noise
• Richard Hugo - Triggering Town (prose)
• ­Elizabeth Bishop - Geography III (from The Complete Poems)
• Mary Oliver - Dream Work --or-- New and Selected Poems ©1992
• Jeffrey McDaniel - Alibi School