Reddit mentions of Hot Sonnets

I'd give any of these to someone interested in poetry and wanting to get a good start.

Jill Alexander Essbaum: Harlot

Brian McGackin: Broetry

T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land and Other Poems (start with "Prufrock")

Sylvia Plath: Ariel (note: this is the "restored" edition--yes it is superior)

Anne Sexton: Transformations

Dante: The Divine Comedy (Durling & Martinez translation)

Anon: Beowulf (Heaney or Sullivan/Murphy translation)

Homer: Odyssey (Fagles translation)

Kim Addonizio: Tell Me

David Mason: Ludlow

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Collected Sonnets

Shakespeare: Collected Sonnets

Moira Egan and Clarinda Harriss (ed.): Hot Sonnets

Sounds Good, 101 Poems to be Heard

I'll go ahead and add the publisher's page for my book (which I absolutely would include as a good "beginning" book) but it won't be out until late January.

ENJOY!

*edit: I absolutely WOULD include my book as a beginner book--sorry for any confusion!

One of the finest sonnet writers of all time is Edna St. Vincent Millay. A joy to read her! Many contemporary poets write sonnets too. Marilyn Hacker. A. E. Stallings. A fun and fabulous collection of contemporary sonnets is "Hot Sonnets": http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Sonnets-Moira-Egan/dp/0980099994/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427212969&sr=1-1&keywords=Hot+Sonnets