***This list appears in For the Time Being. Please feel free to suggest titles in the comments section***
IN AND AROUND POETIC JOURNALS: A SELECTED BOOKLIST
*With thanks to Andrew Schelling, who pointed us toward many of these titles.
Ashbery, John: The Vermont Notebook.
Berrigan, Ted: Train Ride.
Blackburn, Paul: The Journals.
Brainard, Joe: Bolinas Journal.
Cendrars, Blaise: Prose of the Trans-Siberian & of the Little Jeanne de France.
Creeley, Robert: A Day Book; Pieces; Hello: A Journal.
Corbett, William: Collected Poems.
Dahlen, Beverly: A Reading.
Denby, Edwin: Mediterranean Cities.
Doherty, Tyler: Bodhidharma Never Came to Hatboro.
Duggan, Laurie: Compared to What.
Duncan, Robert: The HD Book: Part II, A Day Book.
Eigner, Larry: Readiness / Enough / Depends / On; Windows / Walls / Yard / Ways.
Fischer, Norman: The Narrow Roads of Japan; Success.
Gallagher, Ryan: Plum Smash and other Flashbulbs.
Ginsberg, Allen: Planet News; The Fall of America.
Giscombe, C.S.: Into and Out of Dislocation.
Grenier, Robert: Series; A Day at the Beach.
Hahn, Kimiko: The Narrow Road to the Interior.
Kerouac, Jack: Book of Dreams; Some of the Dharma; Book of Sketches.
Kyger, Joanne: Again; As Ever; Just Space; Patzcuaro; Japan and India Journals; Phenomenological.
Lehman, David: The Daily Mirror.
Mathews, Harry: 20 Lines a Day.
Mayer, Bernadette: Studying Hunger; Midwinter’s Day.
Oppen, George: Day Books.
Padgett, Ron: The Albanian Journal.
Ratcliffe, Stephen: Human/Nature; Real; Cloud/Ridge.
Reznikoff, Charles: Collected Poems.
Rothenberg, Michael: An Unhurried Vision, The Paris Journals.
Roussel, Raymond: New Impressions of Africa.
Schelling, Andrew: The Road to Ocosingo; Two Elk: A High Country Notebook.
Schuyler, James: The Dairy of James Schuyler; Collected Poems.
Schuyler, James & Darragh Park: Two Journals.
Silliman, Ron: BART; Xing.
Sloman, Joel: Cuban Journal.
Snyder, Gary: Passage Through India; Earth House Hold; The Gary Snyder Reader.
Snyder, Gary & Tom Killion: The High Sierra of California.
Waldman, Anne: Journals & Dreams.
Weiner, Hannah: Clairvoyant Journal; The Fast; Country Girl.
Whalen, Philip: Every Day; The Goof Book; Scenes of Life at the Capital.
Wieners, John: 707 Scott Street.
Williams, William Carlos: Descent of Winter.
Studies & Translations from the Japanese Tradition
Basho, Matsuo: Oku no Hosomichi (various translations—Corman, Hamill, Miner, Keene, Sato, Yuasa); The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa.
Brazel, Karen: Diary of Lady Nijo.
Cranston, Edwin: The Izumi Shikabu Diary.
Keene, Donald: Travelers of 100 Ages: The Japanese Through Their Diaries; As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in 11th Century Japan; Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko; Modern Japanese Journals.
Miner, Earl: Japanese Poetic Diaries. (Includes the Tosa Diary & Diary of Izumi Shikibu)
Morris, Ivan: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon; The World of the Shining Prince.
Murasaki: Diary of Lady Muraskai. Translated by Richard Bowering.
Santoka: For All My Walking.
Seidensticker, Edward: The Gossamer Years: A Diary by a Noblewoman of Heian Japan.
Shiki, Masaoka: Selected Poems. Translated by Burton Watson.
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My first two books of poetry, Voices of the Wind and Reflections, published in 2002 and 2003, were both subtitled "poetic journal of life, attitude, and remembrance."
They were designed as a collection of memories, not in any chronological sequence as might appear in a formal journal, and were written as blank verse to preserve some family memories and to reflect the biases and viewpoints resulting from my life in the Great Depression and years of drought in the Sandhills of Nebraska. That done, I moved away from blank and free verse to traditional poetic forms as an author and performing artist of cowboy poetry.
I did find in writing the "journals" that even the blank poetic form stirred the creative spirit. Each completed verse could be celebrated without waiting for an entire volume. As a result, writer's block was not an issue.
You've an impressive, thoughtful blog and I enjoyed it.
Clark Crouch http://poetry.crouchnet.com/
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