[Tony Barnstone]

Hi Folks,

How nice that this thread is coming back to life! Eventually, we will hit 100, and then it might be fun to put the whole thing into list form ....

Tony

[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Number 87
The Moscow and Voronezh Notebooks of Osip Mandelstam
published on paper in bitter and cold places and in the memory of Nadia Mandelstam. It is kinda two books but if as a poet you write your own death warrant in one and then record your sentence in the other, special arrangements must be made.

Number 88
Die Niemandsrose (The No-One's Rose) by Paul Celan 1963

Of course I only know the first in translation by Richard and Elizabeth McKane (Bloodaxe) and the second through reading the German (barely) alongside Festiner, Joris, and Hamburger but if this list went down without those names it would be wrong.

* I waffled between Celan books forever, or at least since this thread began.

[Wintaka]

Does light verse count? If yes, someone has to nominate the best known and best selling poetry tome (not counting nursery rhymes by Dr. Seuss) of the 20th century. It might as well be me:

89. "Songs of a Sourdough" by Robert Service