What to Read After Paterson
Readers who loved Paterson by William Carlos Williams keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Paterson is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Paterson
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
The Maximus poems
Complete Poems of Hart Crane
My vocabulary did this to me
Opened Ground
The complete poems and plays, 1909-1950
The Lost Lunar Baedeker
The collected poems of George Oppen.
The Pisan cantos
Midwinter day
The collected poems of Wallace Stevens.
Tender Buttons Illustrated
Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19)
Pictures from Brueghel and other poems
The collected poems of Theodore Roethke.
The complete poems, 1927-1979
A Coney Island of the Mind
Collected poetry and prose
Poems of Paul Celan
The collected books of Jack Spicer
ABC of reading
Diving into the Wreck
Poems
The country between us