89. Rebecca Loudon, Navigate, Amelia Earhart's Letters Home (No Tell Books, 2006)

In this beautifully produced (best cover art of the year?) collection, Rebecca Loudon creates a voice for Amelia Earhart -- and takes on that voice to imagine what Earhart would say to various people in her life. There's a feeling here similar to what I noted below about case sensitive: an experience of piecing together a story from both what's there and what's missing -- in this case, as one side of a correspondence makes us imagine the other. And a sense of mystery, as these imagined letters seem to have been written after her plane went missing and Earhart disappeared -- well, where? -- onto a deserted island? The book has the feel of found documents, of what's been left behind. You can examine some of the evidence here.

A perfect poetry doubleheader? Read this alongside Gabrielle Calvocoressi's The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart.