I'm going to the bookstore tommorow ...

any poetry book suggestions?

Here's a variety of poets/writers and some specific titles/collections you may want to check out.

Oscar Williams (edited by)-Immortal Poems (a good collection of many poets)
William Harmon(edited by)-The Top 500 Poems (another good collection of a variety of poets)
The Best American Poetry Of (year)-an anthology collection put out each year of the more contemporary poets(as opposed to the well known, long dead masters)
Jim Carroll (Fear Of Dreaming*Pools Of Mercury*The Basketball Diaries)
Edgar Allan Poe (Complete Poems)
Billy Collins (Nine Horses*Sailing Alone Around The Room)
Anne Sexton (The Complete Poems)
Henry David Thoreau
Michael Madsen (The Complete Poetic Works Of:Vol. I:1995-2005) (yes, this is the actor-good stuff!)
Allen Ginsberg
Jewel (A Night Without Armor)
Carl Sandburg
Rod McKuen (Alone*Caught In The Quiet*The Works Of Vol. 1*many others)
Ogden Nash
Walt Whitman (Selected Poems)
Charles Bukowski
Emily Dickinson (Selected Poems)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tupac Shakur (The Rose That Grew From Concrete)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Robert Browning
Leonard Cohen (Stranger Music*and others)
William Blake
Mark Van Doren (That Shining Place)
David Berman (Actual Air)
Ezra Pound
Robert Frost (Anthology Of Poems)
Langston Hughes
E.E. Cummings (100 Selected Poems)
Sylvia Plath
Jim Morrison (Wilderness*American Night*The Lords And The New Creatures)
William Shakespeare
Dylan Thomas
Hugh Prather- (Notes To Myself*I Touch The Earth, The Earth Touches Me)
Jorie Graham
Richard Brautigan
Federico Garcia Lorca (Selected Poems Of (translated))
Gwendolyn Brooks
Shel Silverstein (Where The Sidewalk Ends* and others)
Robert Pinsky
Erica Jong (At The Edge Of The Body, others)
John Keats
Henry Rollins (believe he has a book, know he has some spoken word cds)
William Carlos Williams
Douglas Pagels-(I Love You Sooo Much(A Book For My Soul Mate And A Thank You From My Heart))
A.E. Housman
Edward Field(edited by)-(A Geography Of Poets:An Anthology Of The New Poetry)
Oscar Wilde
Stevie Smith
Billy Corgan (Blinking With Fists)(of the bands Smashing Pumpkins/Zwan)
T.S. Eliot
William Butler Yeats
Mark Strand
Mary D. Esselman & Elizabeth Ash Velez (edited by)-(The Hell With Love:Poems To Mend A Broken Heart (actually this could go in the reference/self help section!))
Lawrence Ferlenghetti
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dave Kappel & Sally Steenland-(The Magnetic Poetry:Book Of Poetry)
Robert Burns
Alexander Pope
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Robert Bly

Reference or poetry related:

Dictionary(a very good one!-sometimes I get inspired by new words & such))
Thesaurus(again, a good one)
John Frederick Nims-Western Wind:An Introduction To Poetry
William Packard-The Art Of Poetry Writing
Rainer Maria Rilke-Letters To A Young Poet
Bill Moyers-Fooling With Words
Robin Behn and Chase Twichell(editors)-The Practice Of Poetry
Judsom Jerome-The Poet's Handbook
Constance Hale-Sin And Syntax
Natalie Goldberg-Writing Down The Bones(Freeing The Writer Within)
John Ciardi-How Does A Poem Mean
Brenda Ueland-If You Want To Write
Ron Padgett(edited by)-The Teacher's And Writer's Handbook Of Poetic Forms
William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White-The Elements Of Style
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge-Poemcrazy(Freeing Your Life With Words)
The Poet's Market-the current edition (put out each year by Writer's Digest Books-This is essential regarding markets and also has other information, interviews with poets, etc.)
Theodore A. Rees Cheney-Getting The Words Right:How to Revise, Edit, & Rewrite
Leonard Knott-Writing For The Joy Of It

It really depends on what writers/styles/ etc. you like- it's always good to read a variety, helps broaden one's horizons.

Gary

LOVELY BONES!!! its an awsome book.. I dont quite remember who wrote it though

Oh.em.gee, The Lovely Bones is one of my favorite books!

Not a poetry book lol, but for Ashleigh, it was written by Alice Sebold.

If you're looking for love poems....100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda