Nine poems that I especially prize, and want you to know about:

• "Way Over Yonder in a Minor Key," Woodie Guthrie
• "Try To Praise the Mutilated World," Adam Zagajewski
• "Subterranean Homesick Blues," Bob Dylan
• "Mysticism for Beginners," Adam Zagajewski
• "Gates of Eden," Bob Dylan
• "Self-Portrait," Adam Zagajewski
• "High Windows," Phillip Larkin
• "Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee," Hopkins
• Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson (the bearded man with the nipple for a mouth, the punk rock t-shirts, the volcanoes and the economy)