2006 in Poetry - Works Published in English - United States

United States

• A. R. Ammons, Selected Poems, American Poets Project of the Library of America; distributed by Penguin Putnam, posthumous
• Bruce Beasley, The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems, University of Washington Press, ISBN 978-0-295-98638-8
• Robin Becker, Domain of Perfect Affection, Pittsburgh University Press
• Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, Alice Quinn, editor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), posthumous
• Charles Bukowski, Come On In!: New Poems (Ecco)
• Hayden Carruth, Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press, edited by Sam Hamill
• Jared Carter, Cross this Bridge at a Walk, Wind Publications.
• Carson Cistulli Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated, Casagrande Press.
• Hart Crane, Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, edited by Langdon Hammer, Library of America (posthumous)
• Robert Creeley, On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay (University of California Press)
• Dick Davis, Trick of Sunlight, Swallow Press
• Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin, Editors, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books)
• Daisy Fried, My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again (University of Pittsburgh Press), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
• Jack Gilbert, Tough Heaven: Poems of Pittsburgh, Transgressions: Selected Poems
• Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems, 1947-1997 (posthumous), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", an expanded edition of the 1984 Collected Poems, 1947-1980
• Jesse Glass, The Passion of Phineas Gage and Selected Poems (West House/Ahadada)
• Eugene Gloria, Hoodlum Birds, Penguin
• Louise Glück, Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
• Linda Gregg, In the Middle Distance, Graywolf
• Donald Hall, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (Houghton Mifflin)
• Suheir Hammad, ZataarDiva, book and CD (Cypher/Rattapallax)
• Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight (Copper Canyon Press) ISBN 978-1-55659-235-5
• Seamus Heaney, District and Circle, Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Allison Hedge Coke - Blood Run, US edition
• George Heym, Poems (Northwestern University Press, translated from German by Antony Hasler
• Jeffrey Harrison, Incomplete Knowledge, Four Way Books
• Jane Hirshfield, After: Poems, (HarperCollins), named as one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post
• Paul Hoover, Edge and Fold (Apogee Press)
• Frieda Hughes, Forty-Five (HarperCollins)
• Troy Jollimore, Tom Thomson in Purgatory (MARGIE/Intuit House), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
• Patricia Spears Jones, Femme du Monde: Poems, (Tia Chucha Press)
• Mary Karr, Sinners Welcome: Poems (HarperCollins)
• Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis, Intaglio, Kent State
• Galway Kinnell, Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin Books), the poet's first collection of new poems in more than a decade, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
• Thomas Kinsella, Collected Poems: 1956–2001, Wake Forest
• Kei Miller, Kingdom of Empty Bellies, Jamaican poet published in the United States:
• Hannah Nijinsky and John Most, Persephone (AQP Collective)
• Alice Notley, Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005 (Wesleyan University Press)
• Mary Oliver, Thirst (Beacon Press)
• Carl Phillips, Riding Westward, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Ishmael Reed, New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
• Lisa Robertson, The Men: A Lyric Book (BookThug) ISBN 978-0-9739742-5-6
• Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, compiled by David Wagoner from "277 spiral notebooks of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialog, commentary, and fugitive miscellany", Copper Canyon Press, ISBN 978-1-55659-248-5 (posthumous)
• Miltos Sachtouris, Poems (1945 - 1971), bilingual edition, Greek with English translation by Karen Emmerich (Archipelago Books), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
• Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
• Julie Sheehan, Orient Point: Poems, (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• Patricia Smith, Teahouse of the Almighty: Poems, selected by Ed Sanders (Coffee House Press, 2006)
• W.D. Snodgrass, Not For Specialists, New and Selected Poems, (BOA Editions, Ltd.), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
• Mark Strand, Man and Camel (Alfred A. Knopf) by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States
• Rosmarie Waldrop, Splitting Image (Zasterle), Curves to the Apple (New Directions)
• Alicia E. Vasquez, 1719 Union St. (Wasteland Press)
• Eliot Weinberger, Muhammed, (Verso, W.W. Norton & Co.)
• Dara Wier, Remnants of Hannah, Wave Books
• C.K. Williams, Collected Poems
• George Witte, The Apparitioners, Three Rail Press
• Charles Wright, Scar Tissue, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Franz Wright, God's Silence (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Robert Wrigley, Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems, Penguin
• Louis Zukofsky, Selected Poems, American Poets Project of the Library of America, distributed by Penguin Putnam; posthumous
• Jesse Lee Kercheval, Film History As Train Wreck