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Almost No Memory
Lydia Davis
Selected Poems
Philippe Jaccottet
The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht
Charles Dickens (Penguin Lives)
Jane Smiley
The Mansion of Happiness
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Erik Satie
Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Agha Shahid Ali, Sarah Suleri Goodyear This book is interesting in that it shows you how much can be done with the ghazal. Some of the poems are very good, but some, for me, show up the weaknesses a ghazal is prone to, mostly in being forced.
There are a number of ghazals from William Matthews whereas two would have been enough. He's a terrific poet but here he became tedious.
If you're interested in writing ghazals, this is great to have since it shows what works and what doesn't.