tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2350414702879739672024-03-13T16:35:25.013-07:00Nolens Volens and EidolonsThe occasional nattering of Elizabeth J. Colenejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-7600393815400595082020-12-07T15:22:00.002-08:002020-12-07T15:23:43.318-08:00Where to be found...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">It's been some time since I've used this space, beloved though it once was (and still is as a record of some thoughts of certain times and places). </span></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Should you wish to find me, venture over to Instagram where I'm <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ejcolen/">@ejcolen</a> </b></span></p><p><br /></p><p>See you in the ether....</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zv2Xun0UNa4/X865CiusU7I/AAAAAAAAAnM/rqE-hBRn9HUcyw2XBDWhRlEJiMlzAwyIwCNcBGAsYHQ/Colen_biophoto%25281%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="356" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zv2Xun0UNa4/X865CiusU7I/AAAAAAAAAnM/rqE-hBRn9HUcyw2XBDWhRlEJiMlzAwyIwCNcBGAsYHQ/w267-h356/Colen_biophoto%25281%2529.JPG" width="267" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-38651269865437046202017-02-27T21:27:00.002-08:002017-02-27T21:27:41.001-08:00Lummi Island, Linden & Briar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-58647466768311828942016-03-07T11:41:00.002-08:002016-03-07T11:41:41.423-08:00Read / re-read in 2015<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
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<ol>
<li>Here –
Richard McGuire (Pantheon, 2014)**</li>
<li>The
Albertine Workout – Anne Carson (New Directions, 2014)**</li>
<li>one love
affair – Jenny Boully (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006)</li>
<li>Selected
Poems – William Bronk (New Directions, 1995)</li>
<li>Motherland
Fatherland Homelandsexuals – Patricia Lockwood (Penguin 2014)</li>
<li>-Bluets –
Maggie Nelson (Wave Books, 2009)</li>
<li>Enter
Invisible – Catherine Wing (Sarabande, 2005)</li>
<li>MOTHERs –
Rachel Zucker (Counterpath, 2014)**</li>
<li>The Law of
Averages – Trevor Dodge (Chiasmus, 2014)</li>
<li>The Book
of Embraces – Eduardo Galeano (Norton, 1991)</li>
<li>Life on
Earth – Frederick Seidel (FSG, 2001)</li>
<li>Spontaneous
Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives – Susan Howe (New Directions, 2014)**</li>
<li>Storm
Toward Morning – Malachi Black (Copper Canyon, 2014)</li>
<li>The
Singing Knives – Frank Stanford (Lost Roads, 1977)</li>
<li>Between
Ourselves: The Photographs of Mari Mahr (Serpent’s Tail, 1998)</li>
<li>The Sounds
of Poetry – Robert Pinsky (FSG, 1998)</li>
<li>Evidence –
Luc Sante (Noonday, 1992)</li>
<li>The End of
Free Love – Susan Steinberg (FC2, 2003)</li>
<li>Tremble –
C.D. Wright (Ecco, 1996)</li>
<li>The Pink
Institution – Selah Saterstrom (Coffeehouse Press, 2004)</li>
<li>Daughter –
Janice Lee (Jaded Ibis Press, 2011)</li>
<li>You and
Three Others are Approaching a Lake – Anna Moschovakis (Coffee House, 2011)</li>
<li>Paradise –
Herve Guibert, trans. James Kirkup (Quartet Books, 1992)</li>
<li>--Excavation
– Wendy Ortiz (Future Tense Books, 2014)</li>
<li>Rain of
the Future - Valerie Mejer (Action Books, 2014)</li>
<li>Times
Square Red Times Square Blue – Samuel Delany (New York University Press, 1999)</li>
<li>The End of
Beauty – Jorie Graham (Ecco, 1987)</li>
<li>The
Fortieth Day – Kazim Ali (BOA, 2008)</li>
<li>For a
Reading: A Selection of Poems – Michael Palmer (The Reed Foundation Poetry
Chapbook Series, 1988)</li>
<li>The
Spectral Wilderness – Oliver Bendorf (Kent State University Press, 2015)</li>
<li>–Man’s
Companions – Joanna Ruocco (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010)</li>
<li>Ghost
Image – Herve Guibert (reprint, University of Chicago Press, 2014), trans.
Robert Bonnono</li>
<li>Ayiti –
Roxane Gay (Artistically Declined Press, 2011)</li>
<li>–Battleborn
– Claire Vaye Watkins (Riverhead,</li>
<li>The Fire
Next Time – James Baldwin</li>
<li>Say
Goodnight – Timothy Liu (Copper Canyon, 1998)</li>
<li>Under the
Sun – Rachel Levitsky (Futurepoem, 2003)</li>
<li>The
Argonauts – Maggie Nelson (Graywolf, 2015)**</li>
<li>This
Boring Apocalypse – Brandi Wells (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015)</li>
<li>Jesus’ Son
– Denis Johnson (Picador, 1992)</li>
<li>Queer
Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures in Lesbian and Gay Studies (The Feminist
Press, 2003)</li>
<li>The
Midnight – Susan Howe (New Directions, 2003)</li>
<li>100 Love
Sonnets – Pablo Neruda (University of Texas Press reissue, 1986)</li>
<li>–The Place
of Scraps – Jordan Abel (Talon Books, 2013)</li>
<li>On the
Shortness of Life – Seneca (Penguin, 2005)</li>
<li>Play It As
It Lays – Joan Didion (FSG, 1970)</li>
<li>About a
Mountain – John D’Agata (Norton, 2010) “Sometimes
we misplace knowledge in pursuit of information” (189) </li>
<li>That Thing
You Do With Your Mouth – Samantha Matthews (McSweeneys, 2015)</li>
<li>Lore – Laynie
Browne (Instress, 1998)</li>
<li>Incapacity
- Jeanne Heuving (Chiasmus Press, 2004)</li>
<li>Decomp –
Stephen Collis & Jordan Scott (Coach House, 2013)</li>
<li>Things
Seen – Annie Ernaux (Bison Books, 2010)</li>
<li>After-Cave
– Michelle Detorie (Ahsahta, 2014)</li>
<li>Charming
Gardeners – David Biespiel (University of Washington Press, 2013)</li>
<li>Neil – J.
Bradley (Five Quarterly, 2015)</li>
<li>–Things to
Do With Your Mouth – Divya Victor (Les Figues, 2013)</li>
<li>The
Interrogative Mood – Padgett Powell (Ecco, 2009)</li>
<li>Tall
Stranger – Gillian Conoley (Carnegie Mellon, 1991)</li>
<li>Orange
Roses – Lucy Ives (Ahsahta Press, 2013)</li>
<li>Leash –
Jane Delynn (Semiotext(e), 2002)</li>
<li>The
Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture: The
2012 Edition – Charles Jensen (MiPOesis, 2012)</li>
<li>Wild With
It – Aliki Barnstone (Sheep Meadow, 2002)</li>
<li>A History
of the Unmarried – Stephen S. Mills (Sibling Rivalry, 2014)</li>
<li>The
Empathy Exams – Leslie Jamison (Graywolf, 2014)</li>
<li>Bad
Feminist – Roxane Gay (Harper Perennial, 2014)</li>
<li>At Night –
Lisa Ciccarello (Black Ocean, 2015)**</li>
<li>Binary
Star – Sarah Gerard (Two Dollar Radio, 2015)**</li>
<li>My Body is
a Book of Rules – Elissa Washuta (Red Hen Press, 2014)</li>
<li>Notes from
No Man’s Land: American Essays – Eula Biss (Graywolf, 2009)</li>
<li>War of the
Foxes – Richard Siken (Copper Canyon, 2015)</li>
<li>The
Strange Library – Haruki Murakami (Knopf, 2014)</li>
<li>Reading
Emily Dickinson in Icelandic – Eva Heisler (Kore Press, 2012)</li>
<li>Ice: A
Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption from South Central to Hollywood – Ice-T
& Douglas Century (Ballantine, 2012)</li>
<li>The Island
of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells (1896)</li>
<li>The Naked
Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal – Desmond Morris (Laurel, 1980)</li>
<li>Mad to
Live: A Collection of Erasures – Randall Brown, etc. (Matter Press, 2015)</li>
<li>My
Alexandria – Mark Doty (University of Illinois Press, 1993)</li>
<li>You Must
Revise Your Life – William Stafford (University of Michigan Press, 1987)</li>
<li>--GenderQueer:
Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary – Ed. Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, and Riki
Wilchins (Alyson, 2002)</li>
<li>Tantalus
in Love – Alan Shapiro (Mariner, 2005)</li>
<li>Illuminations
– Arthur Rimbaud (New Directions, 1946)</li>
<li>Women Born
With Fur – Beth Couture (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014)</li>
<li>Out from
the Pleiades – Leslie McGrath (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014)</li>
<li>Ventrakl –
Christian Hawkey (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010)</li>
<li>Sappho: A
Garland – The Poems & Fragments of Sappho – trans. Jim Powell (FSG, 1994)</li>
<li>The Body –
Jenny Boully (Essay Press, 2002)</li>
<li>Best-Selling
Jewish Porn Films – Wayne Koestenbaum (Turtle Point Press, 2006)</li>
<li>The Trees
Around – Chris Tonelli (Birds LLC, 2010)</li>
<li>–Marriage:
A Sentence – Anne Waldman (Penguin, 2000)</li>
<li>First
Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far) – eds. Labonte & Schimel (Arsenal Pulp
Press, 2007)</li>
<li>Desperate
Characters – Paula Fox (Norton reissue, 2010)</li>
<li>Don’t Go
Back to Sleep – Timothy Liu (Saturnalia, 2014)</li>
<li>Fare
Forward: Letters from David Markson – Laura Sims (powerHouse Books, 2014)</li>
<li>Selected
Poems – William Bronk (New Directions, 1995)</li>
<li>--Big
Towns, Big Talk – Patricia Smith (Zoland Books, 1992)</li>
<li>With
Animal – Carol Guess & Kelly Magee (Black Lawrence Press, 2015)</li>
<li>Man V.
Nature – Diane Cook (Harper, 2014)</li>
<li>Between
the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates (Random House, 2015)</li>
<li>The Master
Letters – Lucie Brock-Broido (Knopf, 1995)</li>
<li>--Rebecca
Letters – Laynie Browne (Kelsey St. Press, 1997)</li>
<li>Lovely, Raspberry
– Aaron Belz (Persea, 2010)</li>
<li>Men in the
Off Hours – Anne Carson (Knopf, 2000)</li>
<li>Stay,
Illusion – Lucie Brock-Broido (Knopf, 2015)</li>
<li>The
Principles of Uncertainty – Maira Kalman (Penguin, 2007)</li>
<li>Twenty
Questions – J.D. McClatchy (Columbia University Press, 1998)</li>
<li>The Animal
Too Big To Kill – Shane McCrae (Persea, 2015)**</li>
<li>Steering
the Craft – Ursula K. LeGuin (Mariner, 2015)</li>
<li>Presentation
Piece – Marilyn Hacker (Viking, 1969)</li>
<li>The Secret
Life of Objects – Dawn Raffel (Jaded Ibis, 2012)</li>
<li>Immigrants
in Our Own Land – Jimmy Santiago Baca (Louisiana, 1979)</li>
<li>Illocality
– Joseph Massey (Wave, 2015)</li>
<li>My
Mother’s Body – Marge Piercy (Knopf, 1985)</li>
<li>Hunger
Makes Me A Modern Girl – Carrie Brownstein (Riverhead, 2015)</li>
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ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-58640606168985496952015-09-18T22:17:00.002-07:002015-09-18T22:17:31.372-07:00Miss you, brother. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-42697267447176666792015-06-17T14:37:00.000-07:002015-06-17T14:48:38.122-07:002015 Summer Reading Challenge!<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NiPX5BXjWG8/VYHmP9Daz8I/AAAAAAAAAaU/AzLZaMqhpys/s1600/FullSizeRender-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NiPX5BXjWG8/VYHmP9Daz8I/AAAAAAAAAaU/AzLZaMqhpys/s400/FullSizeRender-1.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Starting at the top.)</span> <br />
<br />
I am eager to get down to the business of <a href="http://www.oliverdelapaz.com/blog/2015/6/1/2015-summer-reading-challenge.html">Oliver de la Paz's</a> 2015 summer reading challenge. Here's how it works:<br />
<ol>
<li>Pick 15 books that you would like to finish this summer--any genre, any size. This list doesn't have to be at 15 right from the start. It will grow as the summer continues.</li>
<li>Of the 15 books, designate 3 that you recommend to co-participants. (After you've read them, of course).</li>
<li>Of the 15 books, 3 of the books must be from recommendations by other participants.</li>
<li>Post your 15 book list somewhere with a link so that co-participants can link you on their webpages, tumblr pages, or blogs.</li>
<li>Hold
yourself accountable by posting commentary about a book you've just
read. Commentary can also take the form of something creative or
artistic.</li>
<li>The Challenge Ends August 31st. Have fun. </li>
</ol>
<br />
Here's my list, so far... I still need one to round it out (though <i>Repast</i> is really three books in one, so). <br />
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<a href="http://suppleamounts.blogspot.com/2015/06/2015-sumer-reading-challenge.html">http://suppleamounts.blogspot.com/2015/06/2015-sumer-reading-challenge.html</a><br />
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Highlighted in orange are the top 10% that blew my mind. While there were many more than that I found fantastic, to give you my top 39 favorites is a little ridiculous (how many I initially highlighted). <b>Top-3-go-read-now</b>: Shane McCrae's <i>Forgiveness, Forgiveness</i>, Ariana Reine's <i>Coeur de Lion, </i>and<i> </i>Anne Carson's <i>The Albertine Workout,</i><i> </i>in that order<i>. </i>McCrae's book hit me so hard I read it in one sitting, and then read it again in that same sitting.<i> </i>I'm leaving off a few obvious ones that everyone is already talking about<i>. </i>Those are good too. </div>
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A handful of books were re-readings and of course I love those, but didn't include them in my so excited count. Also, I read <i>Ariel</i> for the first time ever and can kind of see why a few people have cited Plath as something of an influence in my work. Because while I hadn't ever read it until now, I'm pretty clearly influenced by some writers who are pretty clearly influenced by her. In sum: I liked it, this book I've been hearing so much about.</div>
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Though I maintain that genre is mostly a useless distinction, last year I read 47 nonfiction books, 22 fiction, 130 poetry. 38 books from 2014, 23 books from 2013, 14 books from 2012. This is the best year I've ever had for reading what's happening Now. I blame/thank AWP being in Seattle for that, though I still have more I picked up there that I haven't yet gotten to. This year (2015) so far I've only "read" one book, Richard McGuire's <i>Here</i>. I mention it now because I don't want to wait until next January to tell you to go out and get it. It's in my top 5 favorite things with pages ever. </div>
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Here's to an excellent year in reading, 2014:</div>
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1. New Year Letter - W.H. Auden
(Faber and Faber, 1965)<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. Eating in the Underworld – Rachel
Zucker (Wesleyan, 2003)<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. Apocalypse Theory: A Reader –
Kristy Bowen (SFSU Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">4. The Fall – Albert Camus (1956;
Vintage Reissue, 1991)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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5. Quipu – Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon,
2005)<o:p></o:p></div>
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6. Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan
Didion (1968; FSG Classics, 2008)<o:p></o:p></div>
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7. Stories That Listen – Priscilla
Becker (Four Way, 2010)<o:p></o:p></div>
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8. A Coney Island of the Mind –
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (New Directions, 1968)<o:p></o:p></div>
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9. Sayonara Michelangelo – Waldemar
Januszczak (Addison-Wesley, 1990)<o:p></o:p></div>
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10. The Book of Frank – CA Conrad
(Wave Books, 2010)<o:p></o:p></div>
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11. Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir
of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality – Jacob Tomsky (Anchor, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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12. My Lorenzo– Sebastien Smirou,
trans. Andrew Zawaki (Burning Deck, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
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13. Impossible Princess – Kevin
Killian (City Lights, 2009)<o:p></o:p></div>
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14. Madness – Marya Hornbacher
(Mariner, 2009)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">15. The Monarchs – Melanie Noel
(Stockport Flats, 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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16. –The Vital System – CM Burroughs
(Tupelo, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
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17. Children of the Days: A Calendar
of Human History – Eduardo Galeano (Nation Books, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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18. On Ghosts – Elizabeth Robinson
(Solid Objects, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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19. Enormous Changes at the Last
Minute – Grace Paley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985)<o:p></o:p></div>
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20. Both Flesh and Not – David Foster
Wallace (Little Brown, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">21. When My Brother Was an Aztec –
Natalie Diaz (Copper Canyon, 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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22. The Next Monsters – Julie Doxsee
(Black Ocean, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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23. --Herman Hesse: Pictorial
Biography (FSG, 1975)<o:p></o:p></div>
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24. Drift – Rachel Maddow (Broadway
Books, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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25. Make Me a Mother – Susanne
Antonetta (Norton, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
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26. We Come Elemental – Tamiko Beyer
(Alice James, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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27. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
(New Directions, 1999)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fever Grass – Miriam Bird Greenberg (Ricochet Editions, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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29. MxT –
Sina Queyras (Coach House, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
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30. Dark Sky Question – Larissa
Szporluk (Beacon Press, 1998)<o:p></o:p></div>
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31. Spectacle – Susan Steinberg
(Graywolf, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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32. The White Album – Joan Didion
(Simon & Schuster, 1979)<o:p></o:p></div>
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33. All You Do Is Perceive – Joy Katz
(Four Way, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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34. Whip Smart – Melissa Febos (Thomas
Dunne Books, 2010)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">35. --Ark – Ronald Johnson (Flood
Editions reissue, 2013, of early 1980s)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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36. All Movies Love the Moon – Gregory
Robinson (Rose Metal Press, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
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37. My Daughter La Chola – Farik Matuk
(Ahsahta, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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38. The World of Rae English – Lucy
Rosenthal (Black Lawrence Press, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">39. Lines the Quarry – Robin Clarke
(Omnidawn, 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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40. Purgatory – Raul Zurita, trans.
Anna Deeny (University of California Press, 2009)<o:p></o:p></div>
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41. Viper Rum – Mary Karr (New
Directions, 1998)<o:p></o:p></div>
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42. The Ada Poems – Cynthia Zarin
(Knopf, 2010)<o:p></o:p></div>
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43. Gnomic Verses – Robert Creeley (Zasterle
Press, 1991)<o:p></o:p></div>
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44. As Long As Trees Last – Hoa Nguyen
(Wave Books, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">45. Science & Steepleflower –
Forrest Gander (New Directions, 1998)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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46. Dark Seasons – Georg Trakl, trans.
Robin Skelton (Broken Jaw Press, 1994)<o:p></o:p></div>
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47. Chromosomory – Layli Long
Soldier (Q Ave Press, 2010)<o:p></o:p></div>
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48. Quarantine – Malachi Black (Argos
Books, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
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49. Prose Poems – Pierre Reverdy,
trans. Ron Padgett (Black Square Editions, 2007)<o:p></o:p></div>
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50. The Absent Father in Dumbo –
Charles Bernstein (Zasterle Press, 1990)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">51. from Unincorporated Territories
[Saina] – Craig Santos Perez (Omnidawn, 2010)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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52. Lake Superior – Lorine Niedecker
(Wave Books, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">53. Sea Ice – Stephen Berg (The
Cummington Press, 1988)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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54. Overtakelessness – Dan
Beachy-Quick (Spork Press)<o:p></o:p></div>
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55. Eye Against Eye – Forrest Gander
(New Directions, 2005)<o:p></o:p></div>
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56. Wayfare – Pattiann Rogers
(Penguin, 2008)<o:p></o:p></div>
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57. Poker – Tomaz Salamun (Ugly
Duckling, 2004)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">58. Inner China – Eva Sjodin (Litmus
Press, 2005)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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59. O New York – Trey Sager (Ugly
Duckling)<o:p></o:p></div>
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60. King Me – Roger Reeves (Copper
Canyon, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
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61. The Pedestrians – Rachel Zucker
(Wave Books, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
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62. One Big Self: Prisoners of
Louisiana – Deborah Luster & C.D. Wright (Twin Palms Publishers, 2003)<o:p></o:p></div>
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63. The Address Book – Sophie Calle (siglio,
2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
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64. Several Gravities – Keith Waldrop
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65. Going Back to the River – Marilyn
Hacker (Vintage, 1990)<o:p></o:p></div>
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66. Factory of Tears – Valzhyna Mort
(Copper Canyon, 2008)<o:p></o:p></div>
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67. Another Water (The River Thames,
for Example) – Roni Horn (Scalo, 2000)<o:p></o:p></div>
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68. The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books
Matter in a Distracted Time – David L. Ulin (Sasquatch, 2010)<o:p></o:p></div>
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69. Heavy Jars – Anselm Hollo
(Toothpaste Press, 1977)<o:p></o:p></div>
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70. Little Mysteries – Ken Mikolowski
(Toothpaste Press, 1979)<o:p></o:p></div>
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71. Cadaver, Speak – Marianne Boruch
(Copper Canyon, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
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72. It – Inger Christensen, trans.
Susanna Nied (New Directions, 2006)<o:p></o:p></div>
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73. One With Others: [a little book of
her days] – C.D. Wright (Copper Canyon, 2011)<o:p></o:p></div>
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74. Romey’s Order – Atsuro Riley (University
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76. Torn Awake – Forrest Gander (New
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77. pool [5 choruses] – Endi Bogue
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78. The Book of Repulsive Women: 8
Rhythms and 5 Drawings – Djuna Barnes (Sun & Moon Press, 1994)<o:p></o:p></div>
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80. I Want to Make You Safe – Amy King
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81. The Not Forever – Keith Waldrop
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83. --Go Find Your Father / A Famous
Blues – Harmony Holiday (Ricochet Editions, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
84. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me
(And Other Concerns) – Mindy Kaling (Three Rivers Press, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
85. Eros the Bittersweet – Anne Carson
(Dalkey Archive, 1986)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
86. Two Memoirs – Amanda Montei (Jaded
Ibis Press, 2015)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
87. Call – Liz Waldner (Meow Press,
2000)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="color: orange;">88. The Plot Genie – Gillian Conoley
(Omnidawn, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
89. Aunt Pig of Puglia – Patricia
Catto (Jaded Ibis, 2009)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="color: orange;">90. Sorrow
Arrow – Emily Kendal Frey (Octopus Books, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
91. Roget’s Illusion – Linda Bierds (Putnam,
2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
92. Arkansas: Three Novellas – David
Leavitt (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
93. Work Together – Christine Deavel
& John Marshall (Cash Machine, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
94. Trace – Simone Muench (Black
Lawrence, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
95. –Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – ZZ
Packer (Riverhead Books, 2003)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
96. Like Oysters Observing the Sun –
Brenda Sieczkowski (Black Lawrence, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
97. Lilies Without – Laura Kasischke
(Ausable Press, 2007)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
98. All About Lulu – Jonathan Evison
(Soft Skull, 2008)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
99. The Professor of Desire – Philip Roth
(Farrar Straus Giroux, 1977)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="color: orange;">100. In
Orbit – Kim-An Lieberman (Blue Begonia Press, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
<span style="color: orange;">101. School – Jen Currin (Coach House Books, 2014)</span><span style="color: #3366ff;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
102. Seam –
Tarfia Faizullah (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
103. A Handbook
for Drowning – David Shields (HarperPerennial, 1993)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
<span style="color: orange;">104. The Albertine Workout – Anne Carson (New Directions,
2014)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
105. Blind
Willow, Sleeping Woman – Haruki Murakami (Knopf, 2006)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
106. Two and
Two – Denise Duhamel (Pittsburgh, 2005)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
<span style="color: orange;">107. ---How to Feel Confident With Your Special Talents –
Carol Guess & Daniela Olzewska (Black Lawrence Press, 2014)</span><span style="color: #3366ff;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
108. Top –
Sandra Yannone<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
109. A Rainbow
in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa – Dominique Lapierre (De
Capo Press, 2009)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
110. The
Tulip-Flame – Chloe Honum (Cleveland, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
111. Not
Nothing - Ray Johnson (Siglio, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
112. red doc>
- Anne Carson (Knopf, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
<span style="color: orange;">113. Coeur de
Lion – Ariana Reines (Fence, 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
114. Trances of
the Blast – Mary Ruefle (Wave, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
115. The Other
Hand – CD Wright (Horse Less Press, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
116. Patriot –
Laurie Saurborn Young (Forklift, Ohio, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
117. Loud Mouth
– Jay Nebel (Steel Bridge Publishing Co., 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
118. Mercury –
Ariana Reines (Fence, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
119. The
Unfolding Center – Arthur Sze & Susan York (Radius Books, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
120. Figment –
Rebecca Wolff (Norton, 2004)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
121. The Paper
Snake – Ray Johnson (Siglio, 2014; 1965 reissue)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
122. The Dance
of No Hard Feelings – Mark Bibbins (Copper Canyon, 2009)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
123. Ithaca:
Little Summer in Winter – Olga Broumas & T Begley (Radiolarian Press, 1996)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
124. X= Stephen Berg (University of Illinois Press, 2002)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
125. Deeds of
Utmost Kindness - Forrest Gander (Wesleyan, 1994)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
126. The Waste
Land and Other Poems – John Beer (Canarium, 2010)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
127. Glamorous
Freak: how I taught my dress to act – Roxanne Carter (Jaded Ibis Press, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
128. Kamastone
– Pamela Mills (Jaded Ibis Press, 2015)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
129, His Days
Go By the Way Her Years – Ye Mimi, trans. by Steve Bradbury (Anomalous Press,
2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
130. Work from
Memory: In Response to In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust – Dan
Beachy-Quick & Matthew Goulish (Ahsahta Press, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
131. Letters
from a Seducer – Hilda Hilst, trans. by John Keene (Nightboat, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
132. Falling in
Love Falling in Love With You Syntax – Sheila E. Murphy (Potes & Poets
Press, 1997)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
133. Black Box
– Erin Belieu (Copper Canyon, 2006)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
134. The Wisdom
of the Desert – Thomas Merton (New Directions, 1970)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
135. ---The Cow
– Ariana Reines (Fence, 2011)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
136. The Divine
Comedy – Dante Alighieri<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
137. Illness and
its Metaphors – Susan Sontag<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
138. Vital
Signs – ed. Richard Canning (Carroll & Graf, 2007)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
139. What
Silence Equals – Tory Dent (Persea, 1993)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
140. Poets for
Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS – ed. Michael Klein (Persea, 1992)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
141. 7 Miles a
Second – David Wojnarowicz (Fantagraphics Books, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
142. Catastrophe
Practice – Nicholas Mosley (Dalkey Archive, 1979)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
143. Reader’s
Block – David Markson (Dalkey Archive, 1996)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
144. --253 –
Geoff Ryman (St. Martin’s, 1996)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
145. Flash
Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories – James Thomas, Denise Thomas, & Tom Hazuka,
eds. (Norton, 1992)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
146. The Murder
of King Tut – James Patterson (Grand Central Publishing, 2010)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
147. Incarnadine
– Mary Szybist (Graywolf, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
148. No
Shelter: Selected Poems (trans. Forrest Gander) – Pura Lopez-Colome (Graywolf,
1989)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
149. The Transformation
– Juliana Spahr (Atelos, 2007)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
150. Post
Subject: A Fable – Oliver de la Paz (Akron, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
151. Put Your
Hands In – Chris Hosea (Louisiana State University, 2014) <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
152. Powerless:
Selected Poems 1973-1990 – Tim Dlugos (Serpent’s Tail, 1996)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
153. f2f –
Janet Holmes (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
154. Oh Baby:
Flash Fictions & Prose Poems – Kim Chinquee (Ravenna Press Books, 2007)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
155. Time Is a
Toy: The Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt – ed. John Gallaher & Laura
Boss (Akron, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
156. The Big
Smoke – Adrian Matejka (Penguin, 2013)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
157. Particle
and Wave – Benjamin Landry (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
158. Palm-of-the-Hand
Stories – Yasunari Kawabata, trans. Lane Dunlop & J. Martin Holman (North Point
Press, 1988)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
159. Beyond the
Chainlink – Rusty Morrison (Ahsahta, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
160. On the
Cave You Live In – Philip Jenks (Flood Editions, 2002)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
161. Sweethearts
– Jayne Anne Phillips (Wingbow / Truck Press, 1982)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
162. Blood
Meridian – Cormac McCarthy (Vintage, 1992)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
<span style="color: orange;">163. The Art of
Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination – Carl Phillips (Graywolf, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
164. My first
painting will be “The Accuser” – Philip Jenks (Zephyr, 2005)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
165. –Letters
to Kelly Clarkson – Julia Bloch (Sidebrow, 2012) <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
166. HIV, Mon
Amour – Tory Dent (Sheep Meadow, 1997)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
167. The
Balloonists – Eula Biss (Hanging Loose, 2002)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
168. --To Keep
Time – Joseph Massey (Omnidawn, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
169. Not That
Kind of Girl – Lena Dunham (Random House, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
170. --Beautiful
Signor – Cyrus Cassells (Copper Canyon, 1997)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
171. My Brother
– Jamaica Kincaid (Macmillan, 1997)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
172. Fragments:
The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus, trans. Brooks Haxton (Viking, 2001)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
173. The Inside
of a Dog – Alexandra Horowitz (Scribner, 2009)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
<span style="color: orange;">174. Citizen – Claudia Rankine (Graywolf, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
<span style="color: orange;">175. Forgiveness, Forgiveness – Shane McCrae (Factory Hollow
Press, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
176. The Book
of Beginnings and Endings – Jenny Boully (Sarabande, 2007)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
177. Salvinia
Molesta – Victoria Chang (Georgia, 2008)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
178. Figure
Studies – Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press, 2008)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
179. The Book
of Accident – Beckian Fritz Goldberg (Akron, 2006)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
180. Night
Scenes - Lisa Jarnot (Flood Editions, 2008)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
181. Dream Machine – Sade Murphy (co-im-press, 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
182. --Head Off
& Split – Nikky Finney (TriQuarterly Books, 2011) (won National Book Award)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
183. Shakespeare
Wrote for Money – Nick Hornby (McSweeney’s, 2008)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
184. The
Paradise of Forms: Selected Poems – Aaron Shurin (Talisman House, 1999)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
<span style="color: orange;">185. Stone
Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg (Firebrand, 1993)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
186.<span style="color: orange;"> </span>And For
Example – Ann Lauterbach (Penguin, 1994)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
<span style="color: orange;">187. If the Tabloids are True What Are You? (2014)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
<span style="color: orange;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
188. The Nine Senses
– Melissa Kwasny (Milkweed Editions, 2011)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
189. And the
Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks – Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs (Grove
Press, 2008; 1945)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
190. Enduring
Freedom – Laura Mullen (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions, 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
191. The Boys I
Borrow – Heather Sellers (New Issues, 2007)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
192. The Garden
Room – Joy Katz (Tupelo Press, 2006)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
193. In the
Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic – Ed. Marie
Howe & Michael Klein (Persea, 1995)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
194. History of
Collage: An anthology of collage, assemblage and event structures – Eddie
Wolfram (Macmillan, 1975)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
195. Glass,
Irony & God – Anne Carson (New Directions, 1992)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
196. I Remember
– Joe Brainard (Grainary Books, 2001)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
197. Dear
Apocalypse – K.A. Hays (Carnegie Mellon, 2009)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; tab-stops: 49.5pt 58.5pt;">
198. Ariel: The
Restored Edition – Sylvia Plath (Harper Perennial, 2005)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yesterday was my brother's birthday. I have two half-siblings who I love very much, but this is the only one 100% my blood, same mother, same father, with all the strengths and weaknesses that came from them. His is also the first birthday to happen since the four of us lost our mother five months ago. He doesn't even know she's gone.<br />
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Things are always changing. Next week I start a new job. Teaching. WWU. My alma mater (I have always loved that term), where I got the first of my masters degrees. I will be teaching a writing-intensive class on the literature of AIDS. I learned in one class while teaching at UW that my 20 year old students didn't realize the impact it had on the gay and lesbian communities in the 1980s and 90s. That initially it was considered a gay cancer. Many of them had no idea there had been any link at all to the queer community. It's everybody's disease, sure. But without gay activists, the road to manageability of the disease (I don't think anyone even talks about "cure" anymore) would have been much longer. And with even more dead. There were so many incredible stories and books written in that time. Documenting how fast and bizarrely it hit, paralleling the natural evolution of gay lit from coming out stories to a focus on family dynamics, documenting the anger, the politics, the intensity of community bonds. Most now are out of print. Which presented the first challenge of putting the class together. In any case, I am excited to be teaching again. And to be taking a closer look at some of these stories.<br />
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I got back two days ago from a week on the peninsula. The good of that. I got a lot done (wrote my syllabus!), read a lot, got further in editing book two of Bowerbird (it's long, but so so beautiful). I watched the boats go in and out. And lights across the water. Drank whiskey. Ate well. I do wish life could be like that all the time. Calm. No real work but what I want to do, beautiful place, beautiful people. I was in love with life a lot last week.<br />
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<br />ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-16739186183290349242014-05-06T23:05:00.000-07:002014-05-08T12:09:11.839-07:00Poetry Month Reading List Rundown Part III<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Okay, as quick as I
can with these last few… to get on to other things…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">32. <i>Factory of Tears</i> –
Valzhyna Mort, trans. Elizabeth Wright (Copper Canyon, 2008)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">History and image key,
and self-making, resilience. From the opening poem:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">even our mothers have no idea how we were
born<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how we parted their legs and crawled out into
the world<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the way you crawl from the ruins after a
bombing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we couldn’t tell which of us was a girl or a
boy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we gorged on dirt thinking it was bread<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and our future</span></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">33. <i>Another Water: The
River Thames, for Example</i> – Roni Horn (Scalo, 2000)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Roni Horn took
pictures of the Thames. And wrote about it. Large images spanned two pages with
text / footnotes running along the bottom. Some footnotes repeat, collage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">82 Water is a
spiritual presence (In the company of water I feel in me the presence of things
that exceed me.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">323 We should
recognize that contemporary water is mostly a parody of waters past.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">34. <i>The Lost Art of
Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time</i> – David L. Ulin (Sasquatch Books, 2010)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">A meditation on how
the internet has eroded our powers of concentration; some talk of what good has
replaced that, but it’s mostly nostalgic for reading as a young gun.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Real reading “demands
space, because by drawing us back from the primacy of the instant it restores
time to us in a more fundamental way.” (80)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Which reminds me of
the article I read about how internet usage actually devolves our brain from
the ability to shut out external stimuli and focus on a task at hand and
returns us to hunters and foragers and hunted constantly taking in information
in order to fight or fly. This is a really rough summary of what’s actually
said. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">I agreed with pretty
much everything Ulin said, but/so nothing was earth-shattering here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">35. <i>Heavy Jars</i> –
Anselm Hollo (Toothpaste Press, 1977)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">bad sunday<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">longing, anger, rage<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">feeling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">both</i>
desperate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> boring<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brilliant sunshiney day<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">i don’t want it<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">i want deranged jottings!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how to stop envying<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">general misery<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">36. <i>Little Mysteries</i> –
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than the rest, was my favorite of Mikolowski’s. The chapbook is illustrated by
his wife. Interesting images, tres 70s. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">37. <i>Cadaver, Speak</i> –
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">This isn’t actually
any kind of review, but: the first section of this book spookily recounts
memories I’ve had and forgotten. It’s not déjà vu or deja lit, but real. Her
rattling doorknob in Italy of someone trying to get into her hotel room in the
middle of the night; this happened to my grandmother and I in Paris. And the
first poem’s walk through the night aisles of an airplane brings back exact
thoughts I had the first time I rode the train overnight: “The fact is I walked
through an underworld, that aisle— / I was up, had to—and saw in the dim /
not-yet-dawn the arms / and legs of Shiloh and Gettysburg flung / every which
way.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Christensen, trans. Susanna Nied (New Directions, 2006)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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C.D. Wright (Copper Canyon, 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve had this book for
some time, but had yet to get around to reading it. It felt odd not to read the
copy I have. Collage of songs, newspaper articles, interviews, and
memory/memoir elements re: violent incidents that take place during a summer of
Civil Rights Movement. Sweet Willie Wine, V, Arkansas. Through repetition and
juxtaposition the momentum of the book (and narrative) builds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Atsuro Riley (University of Chicago Press, 2010)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">Backwoodsy childhood with heavy sound / rhyme and assonance and a lot of made up compound words.
Wow, apparently Poetry loved him; 21 of the poems published there. I liked it
and it made a lot of talk happen in my head (and for that I’d return), but to
some degree I found the compounds overkill / self-conscious. From one page (7):
jungle-strangled, supper-singed, bruise-tingeing, Y-crotch, medicine-smelling,
sweet-gum, belly-worry, elbow-curve, hunker-turn, in-warped, porch-door,
kick-scarred, rust-cry and -rasp, Tailspin-wind, jamb-slap, after-slap,
cinder-crush and –temper, funnel-blur, red-gold, apron-yellow, rickracked,
stove-coil, blade-flash, magma-brimming, ladle-splash, bramble-berry,
bunker-shelss, once-bedded, beanvine-roots, moonvines, dew-shining. Wow. That
was more even than I head-thought there would-be.</span></div>
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Emergency</i> – Frank O’Hara (Grove Press, 1957; reissue 1996)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">A perennial favorite I
had not visited in several years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">The eager note on my
door said “Call me, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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so I quickly threw <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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my overnight bag, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">straightened my
eyelids and shoulders, and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the door. It was autumn <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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around the corner, oh all<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">unwilling to be either
pertinent or bemused, but <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">the leaves were
brighter than grass on the sidewalk!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Funny, I thought, that
the lights are on this late <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the hall door
open; still up at this hour, a <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">champion jai-alai
player like himself? Oh fie! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">for shame! What a
host, so zealous! And he was<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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flat on a sheet of blood that<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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did appreciate it. There are few <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">hosts who so
thoroughly prepare to greet a guest <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and that several months ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">What I like about
<i>Science & Steepleflower</i> I like about this, which is, I think, it’s follow-up: how main threads
are taken up wholly in sections, how sections are their own one poem composed
of many. In this there is much about the relationship with the son. Also love
letters, love’s letters. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">“A past that never
stops / changing its expression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
alive, / he wrote, and cannot bear / to be unworthy of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Came to the end / of words and waited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">things</i>
restore silence / speaking of themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lizards / lick shadow under the dry fountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lidless gaze. / The butt and very dustmark of
my utmost journey. / Pain as utterance / withheld.” (p 77, from “Carried
Across”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Hartigan (Omnidawn, 2014)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">mathematical
formulation, 9/11 figures heavily, many different forms, fantastic opening
poem:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>We cannot help ourselves</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>but believe. Look what people do.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>We cannot help ourselves to</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>believe. Look what people do</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and believe. I can't believe it</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>said the plum trees shivering</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and then the blossoms showed</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>up scattered, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>side blown,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>not just down. We cannot help</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>ourselves to everything</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>said the people unbelieving,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>shaking heads. How can we believe now, look?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>Atrocities blossom also, look.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>The trees said help yourselves</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>to blossoms: democratic trees,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>dreaming lessons. We believe</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>in teaching belief said the trees.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>We cannot help ourselves with</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><i>blossoms, to blossoms of belief.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">White blossoms fell on our hair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">a weight barely there, so we </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">left them till they blew.</span></div>
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Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings – Djuna Barnes (from 1915; Sun &
Moon facsimile, 1994)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(Michael’s in Bellingham). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a Home</i> – Daniela Olzewska (Small Monster Press, 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is a beautiful object:
farm house dual green and light green sunrays burst forth from on the cover,
woodcuts throughout, on quality paper. A lot of yr and + (for and) +/or’s. The
effect of this, joined with the short lines and everything lower case is a
casual and quick speech, a closefriendly matter-of-factness. Sonically dense,
existing to slow and make brighter the pieces of narrative contained in each
poem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">46. <i>Stag’s Leap</i> –
Sharon Olds (Knopf, 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think what I like
best about this book is that I don’t have to fully engage the part of my brain
that seeks narrative. Because all of this book is speaking to and of the same
narrative: the husband leaving after 30 years. Then I can focus fully on the
sounds, on the line breaks, on the images presented. The stutter of this one, "The Worst Thing." I have never, I don’t think, read a poem that has sobbing in
it such. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE WORST THING<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">One side of the
highway, the waterless hills. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other, in the
distance, the tidal wastes, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">estuaries, bay,
throat <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the ocean. I had
not put it into <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">words, yet—the worst
thing, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">but I thought that I
could say it, if I said it <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">word by word. My
friend was driving, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">sea-level, coastal hills,
valley, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">foothills,
mountains—the slope, for both, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">of our earliest years.
I had been saying <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">that it hardly
mattered to me now, the pain, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">what I minded was—say
there was <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">a god—of love—and I’d
given—I had meant <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">to give—my life—to
it—and I <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">had failed, well I
could just suffer for that— <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">but what, if I, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">had harmed, love? I
howled this out, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">and on my glasses the
salt water pooled, almost <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">sweet to me, then,
because it was named, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">the worst thing—and
once it was named, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">I knew there was no
god of love, there were only <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">people. And my friend
reached over, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">to where my fists
clutched each other, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the back of his
hand rubbed them, a second, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">with clumsiness, with
the courtesy <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">of no eros, the
homemade kindness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">47. <i>I Want to Make You
Safe</i> – Amy King (Litmus Press, 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">49. <i>The Annotated
Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose</i> – T.S. Eliot (edited, with
annotations and introduction, by Lawrence Rainey) (Yale University Press, 2006)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most interesting
things I’m learning from T.S. Eliot: Little Tich and his boots like skis (I
watched a video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ZXb61-BQw">Clément-Maurice's film of Little Tich at thePhono-Cinéma-Théâtre performing his Big-Boot Dance in 1900</a>); an early working
title for <i>The Waste Land</i> was <i>He Do the Police in Different Voices</i>; Richard
Adlington’s (the former Mr. H.D. – together only a few years, but married for
25 (1913-1938)) relationship with Eliot disintegrated due to jealousy and ended
when Adlington published Stepping Heavenward in 1931, which parodied Eliot’s
relationship with Viv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eliot says “all first-rate
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sound, establishing a meaning quite apart from the literal/what the words say.
Through sound a landscape is made that reflects the natural world. The poems
are all, in a word, sensation. By this I mean of the senses. I feel them more
than read them. Ears, visual simplicity on the page, even the tactile, heavy
board of the letterpressed cover. Again, this book is an object, art in and of
itself, nevermind the words inside. I mean, of course they work together. </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Though all the poems
are of the natural world, I couldn’t help but see the human in many of them
(this one, for example). But then, I’m always attributing human emotion to my
dog as well and I’m told I shouldn’t do that. This little book made me want to
read more Dan Beachy-Quick tout de suite, which is good because I bought
another one of his books at AWP and will be reading it soon. (I am not filing
the AWP stack away until I read them; the pile is slowly going down / the
poetry section is slowly encroaching into the fiction section of my built-in
(by me) bookshelves.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, also about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Overtakelessness</i>: play on the red
wheelbarrow and a play on Liz Waldner’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Point is that Which has No Part</i> (“a point being that which has no heart”
etc).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, and how is this
for a stutteringly stellar close:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> it to
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">21. <a href="http://ndbooks.com/book/eye-against-eye"><i>Eye Against Eye</i> –Forrest Gander (New Directions, 2005)</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Eye Against Eye</span></i><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"> did not slay me the way <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Science & Steepleflower</i> did, but I have decided I would follow
Forrest Gander into whatever woods he wandered in. Fatherhood, 9/11, Mayan
architecture, end of the world, fatherhood, and 10 Sally Mann photographs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">from “Present Tense”:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is going to be a fast trip<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">grey-black backs and bulbous snouts of
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cut the swell beyond Fire Island<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">each repeating sun a comet<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">world of physical event and mind’s world
indissoluble<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">(from “Argosy for Rock
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">22. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wayfare-Poets-Penguin-Pattiann-Rogers/dp/0143113348/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1399168489&sr=8-10&keywords=pattiann+rogers"><i>Wayfare</i> – PattiannRogers (Penguin Books, 2008)</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hrm. I read most of
it. Well, more than half (it’s 120 pages!), but I want it to count because it
was very hard to get through. And because I left where I was staying and took a daylong hike and only brought two books: this and the Forrest Gander.
I should never leave the house with less than three books. I don’t know when I
will learn this conclusively. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">At first I thought I
wanted someone to explain the draw of this book to me, but I think I get it. It
has all the right elements. It’s interested in human creativity / art, there
are sections on music, visual art, gardening, theater, natural history. I did
like all the animals in the book. And being on the beach was the right location
to read the first poem—“The Great Deluge and Its Coming.” But there were so
many adjectives and adverbs that I nearly lost my mind. From just the first
poem: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">roughly, vicious,
cruelly, racing, bald, multiple, hairy, woolly, scaly, momentarily, hoary,
weasel-like, grizzled, flooding, fear-whitened (said of the blue-faced
mandrill—so I was totally okay and in fact pretty charmed with this one), harsh,
mangy, long, hanging, numerous, wingless, constantly, white, really white,
wide, silently, simply, deeper, moonlit, calm, ultimate, dependable, finally,
slowly, growing, open<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">This I liked from the
deluge poem: “Direction was destiny.” Actually, I think that could be the whole
poem. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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from this book is that it really knows how to slow down a moment, something I
could use at times. I am told by some I am a bit too paratactic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">23. <a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=88"><i>Poker</i> – TomazSalamun, trans. Joshua Beckman (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004)</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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quite funny, at times rather nonsensical, but plain speech & place names /
peoples names & declarative syntax allows a looseness in its authority. Or
rather: a looseness while maintaining authority. The highlight for me was “Flor
Ars Hippocratica,” but that’s a long one. Also “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Homage</span> to Hat & Uncle Guido & <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Eliot”:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Plain language. More
story/prose than poem (not sure what it’s categorized as, but I found it on the
poetry shelves in the house I was staying in), but quiet, lyrical, stunning. Two
sisters (one young? without language? developmentally delayed?) run away from home
into the woods to avoid sexual abuse by their mother’s boyfriend. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another find on the
chapbook shelf. I picked this one up because I was planning on going to New
York at the end of April (and then didn’t end up going). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is what happens
when Emma Lazarus, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Dos Passos, and a hipster barista get together and birth a letterpressed
baby. That is to say I both loved it and wanted more from it. I discovered you
can actually read the whole thing here: <a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/archive/online-reading/o-new-york-by-trey-sager/">http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/archive/online-reading/o-new-york-by-trey-sager/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Cross-Country” was
the first poem in the book to make me go: “whoa.” Like, literally, out loud, I
said whoa to an empty room. All of the book feels urgent, as though the speaker
is grabbing onto your sleeve and looking intently at you while telling you
things. Urgency and an just-barely-controlled energy that propels the poems
line to line and the book poem to poem. I did not once put this book down until
I’d finished it. There is variation to the poems, but always this intensity and
motion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many of these poems also
made me think about how often poems, some of mine included, just seem to get
tired and so go into the dismount rather than fully work toward, discover, and
ratchet up the kernel of knowledge or experience the poem has set up for the
poet to use. In this I am privileging the intelligence of the poem over that of
the poet. And yes, I believe this to be a true thing, regardless of poem,
regardless of poet. The great poets are those who have
poems that move in brilliance along some higher plane and they climb up to meet them there. I felt this way about so many of Reeves's poems. And even the ones that didn’t have this sense
of perfect completion, were still incredible poems. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">There was much in asylum
& blindness recurring, weird things from the sea animal world; “Thinking of
Anne Frank in the Middle of Winter” was another favorite moment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Conceptually the book
weakens for me slightly with the turn towards travel, though poems like
“Brazil” and “Exit Interview” do much to unify this complication of place from
site of America to site of the body (which is arguably where we have been all
along). In any case, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">King Me</i> is a
brilliant debut.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">A few lines that won’t
leave me: “More than once I’ve been a bell broken / Against its own ringing”
and “How else / Shall ruin announce itself if not in one body touching
another?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Mike Tyson in me
sings like a narwhal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">minus the nasally
twang of sleeping in a cold ocean,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">the unsightly
barnacles latched to the mattress<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">of skin just below my
eye, the white horn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">jutting out from the
top of my head--<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">oh god bless us
mutts—the basset-blood-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">hound mulattoes, the
pug-mixed puppies<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">left behind the dog
pound’s cinder-block walls<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">as German Shepherds,
Labradoodles,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">and Portuguese
Water-Dogs turn their inbred behinds<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">and narrow backs at
our small-mouthed blues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s hard to smile
with an ear in your mouth,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">two names, and a
daughter hanging by a thread<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">from the railing of a
treadmill. Oh neck<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">and North Carolina and
a white coat of paint<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">for all the faces of
my negro friends<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">hanging from trees in
Salisbury.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Greensboro. And
Guilford County.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">The hummingbirds
inside my chest,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">with their
needle-nosed pliers for tongues<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">and hammer-heavy wings,
have left a mess<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">of ticks in my lungs
and a punctured lullaby<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">in my throat. Little
boy blue come blow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">your horn. The cow’s
in the meadow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">And Dorothy’s alone in
the corn with Jack,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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brass of his lips,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fingernails clicking<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">along her legs until
she howls--<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oz is a man with a
mute body<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">on an HBO original
show that I am too afraid to watch<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">for fear of finding my
uncle, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">or a man that looks
like my uncle,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">which means finding a
man that looks like me<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">in another man’s
embrace or slumped over a shiv <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">made from a mattress
coil and a bar of Ivory soap. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most young kings
return home without their heads.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s 1941, and Jack
Johnson still loves white women, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">and my mother won’t
forgive him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">If she can’t use
your comb, don’t bring her home,</span></i><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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1998. It’s 2009,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Charlie Parker.
Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Often, I click the
heels of my Nikes together<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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police, I am a cricket<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">crushed beneath a
car’s balding black tires.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most young kings
return home without their heads.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh the mixed emotions
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Pedestrians</i>. It’s really two
books. The (more than) first half “the fables” is a prose work divided into
separate “fables,” which are really all of one story. It rains. There is
distance. A lonely marriage. Children. A brief running away to the “house that
was not her house.” A return. The quiet sadness of the everyday domestic is
palpable here. For every bit that I loved it however, I disliked “the
pedestrians” (poems) almost as much. The title (and the title poem) makes me
wonder if Zucker is being tongue-in-cheek. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Museum
of Accidents</i> (Wave Books, 2009) tells me her poetry is capable of so much
more. I plan to buy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Pedestrians</i>
for the first half though, which was really, really incredible work. And is also
an excellent example of how to build a complete narrative from flash fiction or
nonfiction pieces. A book I look forward to teaching one day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">28. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Big-Self-Prisoners-Louisiana/dp/1931885257/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1399169190&sr=8-4&keywords=one+big+self+wright"><i>One Big Self:Prisoners of Louisiana</i> – Deborah Luster & C.D. Wright (Twin Palms Publishers, 2003)</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had only ever
seen/read <a href="https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B547FF996-A36B-44C7-8164-68EC7775830B%7D">Copper Canyon’s 2007 edition of the book</a>, without the images. It was
given to me more than two years ago by Linda Bierds who thought (rightly so)
that I would find it useful to my own work. And thus began my love affair with
C.D. Wright's work. I was on the couch at the house where I was housesitting,
reading Rachel Zucker when I noticed the Twin Palms edition on the art bookshelf across the room. And would spend the next several hours slowly paging
through it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">The experience of
reading Wright’s words while images of the prisoners hovered at the periphery
of my vision gave the work a distinctly different and real feeling. There is no
abstract anymore, no imagined faces, when one is faced with the actual
portraits. There is a greater immediacy, which made me immediately seek out
more examples of text operating in conjunction with image (as evidenced by the
next few books I read).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beneath each portrait
was some information on the prisoner, which varied depending on how much
information the prisoner had been willing to provide: date of birth, place of
birth, where located (which prison), when incarcerated, length of sentence, and
how many children they had. Included nowhere was any explanation of what crime had been committed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">29. <a href="http://sigliopress.com/book/the-address-book/"><i>The Address Book</i> –Sophie Calle (Siglio, 2012)</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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address book and calls up / meets with / interviews as many of the people in
the address book as she can to gain an understanding of the owner of the address
book in that way. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not life-changing, but
definitely interesting. Some of the photographs were fantastic, though there
was little surprise to their fantasticness since I’m already pretty familiar
with Calle’s work. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: large;">The most exciting part
to me was the mention of the Big Chief pinball machine, as that was the one B
and I had in our living room, and which I fixed the cord and plug of, and which
I have played so very many times. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a fire from before ever fire came down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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morning. I’d been at the house on the peninsula for a week at this point. Had
just listened to an upsetting voicemail about my mother’s condition. Did not
call the caller back. Went back to sleep. Woke up an hour later. Did not call
the caller back. Rolled over and spied Marilyn Hacker on the bookshelf and
thought, “I’ve never read Marilyn Hacker before. Why?” I knew she was gay. [Though she was once married to Samuel Delany!] I
knew it was pretty narrative stuff (maybe why I hadn’t read her before). But
the stories! Oh my goodness! While there were great lines like: “What changes nothing changes
everything” and “Does anybody not die uncomforted?” what I was drawn to most in
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fascinating, like someone I’d love to hang out with, and the intimacy with
which she told them, I kind of did feel like she was in the room talking to me,
and then on the beach talking to me, and then downtown PT talking to me. Downtown
sitting on a bench where I was reading the last few poems after spending a sad
and overly sunny and warm Saturday afternoon walking around PT and then to
reach the last page and understand why it had called to me from the shelf next
to the bed:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this month. All month I didn’t. Sure, I may have come up with a few lines, re:
the game I play with myself to keep myself going [see: </span><a href="http://entropymag.org/national-poetry-month-featured-poet-elizabeth-colen/" style="font-family: Baskerville;">Entropy, question 6</a><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">],
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I feel good about
this. The month was marked by two distinct poles: the joy of spending a week
and a half in a place I will refer to as “poetry heaven” and
exactly one week and two days ago my mother dying. I feel I will have a hard
time writing about that business for some time to come. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">What I did do this
month: read. Just this afternoon I finished <i><a href="http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300097433">The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose</a></i>. It had been a while since I’d read “The Waste Land.”
All through grad school “The Waste Land” was referenced and while I would nod
and smile with the rest of my compatriots, I had little recollection of the
poem, other than that famous first line and some vague impression of water
drip-dropping at some point. I knew <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what</i>
it was, how it fit into the modernist cannon, and the relation to / assistance
in fathering by Pound, but I couldn’t say I “knew” it well like everyone else
seemed to. So when I found a used copy (hard cover) of the annotated version for
$12 at <a href="http://www.magusbooksseattle.com/">Magus</a> some months ago, I grabbed it, planning on an April read. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">What I didn’t plan on
then was the thought that emerged in the first few months of 2014 when I
realized I wasn’t writing, wasn’t planning to write, and didn’t really mind
this hiatus, was—while others across America were spinning themselves into
a-poem-a-day—to read as much poetry as I possibly could during April, the
cruelest / poetry month. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">It seemed a worthy
expedition to finish the day-job every day and then set off into the world of
other people’s words every afternoon, only pausing for hunger, the longest
walks, and the occasional bout of slaying with Buffy Summers. (Okay, a lot of
slaying with Buffy Summers.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">In general I read a
lot. A lot more than the average person, more even than most avid readers. A
lot of what I read is contemporary, of the most recent decade, often stuff
that has just come out. So as not to alienate myself in the literary world, or
so as not to bog myself down in criticism over enjoyment/love (the primary
function of my relationship to literature), while I tend to make notes for
myself, I don’t tend to write for the public about my experience of a book
unless I love it. Though I do write the occasional review. Partly in an effort
to surmount the worry that I don’t know enough, will never know enough, I am
making strides towards exposing myself with the barest of comments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I read 49 books in
April. In quick brush strokes, I hope to go over that list. Anyone willing or
wanting to speak further on any of the things I “brush” over, well, you know
how to find me. You’ve gotten this far. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://www.floodeditions.com/johnson-ark">ARK – RonaldJohnson (Flood Editions, reissue 2013)</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">Acquired at the <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/">SPD</a>
table at AWP for ten dollars. Ten dollars! (Plus I got a tote.) The book is
huge, hard cover. And while I feel fairly new to this poetry thing, it is a
book I had heard referenced many times. [And recently spoken of more eloquently
than you will get here, by <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/03/ronald-johnson-ark-poetry-flood-editions.html">Stephen Burt in The New Yorker</a>.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I started Ark
(actually in the last days of March) while on Alki beach with PJD and her
puppy, reading out loud. And this was the best way to go. I read a third of it
this way in an afternoon, while eating mandarin oranges and watching ferries.
What struck me—other than its intensely thick sonic qualities (what will always
thrill me first)—was the use of white space and poem’s slipping starkly down
the center of the page. Generally centered is not a mode I like to see (it
speaks to me of juvenilia), but Ark like some stab of cosmic (and sonic) light benefits
from this placement visually at the center of things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">“Omphalos triumphant”?
Tell me that isn’t something you were tempted to say at least a couple times.
In Ark, while I may not understand all references and I may be at a loss
sometimes (often) for anything resembling narrative, I am taking enough (so
much!) enjoyment from the sounds that I really don’t care what it’s about. That
said, I also trust that the book (as a whole, and individual poems) is
undoubtably doing things. That should I return to it with a quest for
understanding that I would be rewarded with a complex and sometimes(?),
mostly(?) solvable puzzle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I read with Gregory
Robinson at AWP. The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1419313778311008/">Ricochet / Gold Line / Rose Metal / Boston Review reading</a> at the Freehold Theater. <a href="http://kathleenrooney.com/">Kathleen Rooney</a> had told me
how wonderful the book was as I paged through a copy of it at the <a href="http://www.rosemetalpress.com/">RMP</a> table of
the book fair. Of course she did, she’s just published it. But she geeked out
even more than usual and this made me especially interested to read it. I made
up my mind then to purchase the book at the reading (so long as I liked what I
heard) and get Mr. Robinson to sign it. Sadly, Mr. Robinson left the building
before I got a chance to have him sign it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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complicated, creative look at silent film. Prose poems. Images also: title
stills. Towards the end of the book there is also (in poems) lots of talk about
title writers and the movement from silent, no text to silent with text to
talkies. Most interesting were the subtle comments on our lives as translated
through these films, which we, as readers, have probably not even seen (I
believe of all the films referenced I had seen exactly one). A favorite poem
from AMLTM:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my life, train A and train B, careening towards each other across continents.
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why I would bother to wake. I miss them when they are gone, these trains
without brakes, without plans, and ultimately without rails. There is a joy in
crisis, the possibility of being useful, noticed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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asteroid, single prop and mountain, the car, the driver on his cell, the ball,
the child who chases it where the world bends at the brink of their union, and
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blank book into which I transcribe quotes from the books I read, things I might
(and often do) need later. In March I read Melissa Febos’s <a href="http://www.melissafebos.com/whipsmart.html">Whip Smart</a> and
recorded this quote: “Maybe if I wanted to enjoy the exhilarations of a life
lived in multiplicity, I had to endure the rare, excruciating juxtaposition.”
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two books apart in my reading lineup. This isn’t particularly strange though,
as I am apt to record any moment that reads true to me of two of anything
running parallel, speaking / influencing in the ways they rub together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I picked this up at
the Ahsahta Press table at AWP for the sounds and how those sounds became
bolder within moments of absence/gaps in syntax. And it did not disappoint. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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punctuation, when coupled with irregular syntax to be a bit difficult in
working through the poems out loud. Sometimes I didn’t know what my mouth was
supposed to be doing, where the stresses and pauses were supposed to be. This
stuttering seemed appropriate/intentional to the work though. Favorite poems: “Shake
the Bear Funny Name” and “My Daughter La Chola Near Sonnet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">Not poetry! What! I
was so impressed by what Lucy Rosenthal read at the Black Lawrence Press
reading at AWP. The sentences so carefully crafted. So many moments that stun
with precision. I read this in one afternoon in my living room. The only
disappointment to me was the handling of male bisexuality in the book,
especially considering that while so much is examined/detailed, we don’t see
anything of what Rae feels about learning that her father had male lovers, or
that her boyfriend does. The coincidence of this—or that it is common—is not
addressed, it just is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">What are we to believe
about it! Did Ted take advantage of Simeon! Why is everyone ending up in mental
hospitals for loving men! Did Ted’s wife leave because he had male lovers? So
much is put on Georgina’s leaving, that it seems odd the question is never
asked once we know more about Ted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">Also, the first
chapter takes place in Rae’s childhood, a flashback. This doesn’t seem
necessary, the details could have been threaded in more cleanly, less jarringly
to the rest of the “present” past tense. I still maintain that this is a
beautiful book. Though there are some things I would change content-wise, the
writing is really stellar, really controlled in the best of ways. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">Hands-down the best
book I’ve read this year. “Eco-poetry” from a writer who seems to be more
activist than poet. It has some qualities that the Maruk book had which gave me
trouble, but here it didn’t give me trouble. Brenda Hillman’s introduction to
Clarke’s book describes this as “its overlapping forms reanimate the lyric by
asking it to accommodate a sound-based, non-smooth music.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">Unlike <i>La Chola, Lines
the Quarry</i>’s non-smooth rarely tripped me up. Perhaps it was that there was
more punctuation, so that the syntax—stress and pause—did not have to be
interpreted, but could just be what it was in known disjunction. Much of
Pittsburgh and surrounds here as well. The blue-collar Pittsburgh I remember. A
few favorite moments:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">"Silence accretes a
chrysalis inside which the pupa of 'self' kicks on. Eyes, wings, a tail of
sorts. The embryo's mother jumps off a high dive, doesn't know what's growing.
They had different goals: she wanted to be the baby, he wanted to be the baby.
Still how to explain: the toddler left in the puddle 'til dark, the overheating
car crashed in order to cool it." (p 46)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">"Box of streamers that
turn out after all to be snakes. It is difficult to have sex, even with someone
you love. The perpetrator becomes your beloved’s & later your face. “Ask
her if anything happened.” To talk about intimate, sad or embarrassing things,
simply make lists: time lime grime crime." (p 27)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">Perhaps I should take
a moment to explain, if I haven’t already said it, that I read all poetry out
loud. Even in public in will read out loud quietly to myself. I have to. So
when I say <i>LTQ</i> did not trip me up, I mean I did not stumble out loud over
Clarke’s words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book off this list, read Robin Clarke.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">6. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Purgatory-Bilingual-Edition-Raul-Zurita/dp/0520259734/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398922147&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Purgatory+%E2%80%93+Raul+Zurita%2C+trans.+Anna+Deeny"><i>Purgatory</i> – RaulZurita, trans. Anna Deeny</a> (University of California Press, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">Raul Zurita was an
engineering student arrested on the morning of Pinochet’s coup (11 Sept. 1973),
detained and tortured. “I had to learn to speak again from total wreckage,
almost from madness, so that I could still say something to someone.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">A kind of post-modern
Dante’s Inferno, collage-like book, some visual, some diagram, several
different poetic styles. The Desert of Atacama section was my least favorite
section, but perhaps only because the word Atacama was repeated so many times
and I was reading it out loud. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I arrived to housesit on
the peninsula early in the morning of April 5th. Though I had plans to spend the
day on the beach, I spent the day perusing the bookshelves of the house,
pulling volume after volume out, riffling through pages, reading a poem here
and there, reading blurbs and bios and bits of introductions, and beginning to
plan my week of reading. With so much to choose from (including one entire room
lined with bookshelves head-high, which were filled entirely with poetry and
stack upon stack upon stack on top of shelves and stacked in front of the
bookshelves themselves) I wanted to be sure I decided upon the books most vital
to my current poetry needs and read those first of all. Zurita was the first
book I chose—before planning—perhaps because I had realized I was in some kind
of heaven and so made myself step back momentarily to purgatory. I read this
book while pacing the fourth floor of the house, which, while unfinished was
cathedral-like, with skylights, a ping-pong table, and dozens and dozens of dead flies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I did not like this
book. I feel Mary Karr can handle this information if she, upon Google alert or
some other force, finds herself in this post. Plus, I feel she is better known
(and better skilled) with non-fiction. And in fact I picked up this book because the
prior house-sitter (longtime friend and fellow poet) had left it lying about and
asked me what I thought about Karr’s thoughts on “decoration” as presented in
the essay “Against Decoration” that ends the book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">From that essay:
“That’s how I often feel about much of today’s popular work. The poet
concentrates so fixatedly on the poem’s minute needlework that he or she fails
to notice—like a blind man with the elephant in the old fable—that the work
involves only one square inch of a tapestry draped across an enormous beast,
and that the beast is moving.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about the 1. absence of emotion, 2. lack of clarity in contemporary work that has too much decoration, which she explains as “ornate diction that
seeks to elevate mundane experience rather than clarify a remarkable one.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">While I agreed with
her on several points, and think quirkyclever naval-gazing might be the death
of me with regards to contemporary poetry, I think sound is a different thing.
Without going too detailed into a response to her essay, I will say that
sometimes mundane experiences should be made remarkable, that sound is capable
sans narrative “meaning” to elicit great feeling and knowledge, and that
clarity is not always all it’s cracked up to be. The problem I had with Karr’s poems
was that they were so clear and so specific to “remarkable” experience that I
could find myself in them nowhere. They were simply describing events as she
saw them. That’s fine, but I go to poetry for the universal, for a poet to
transmit an idea or an experience in a way I can enter. I go for the gaps I can
find and insert myself into. And almost all of her poems were closed to me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">Anyway, it was
interesting that the best argument against her essay was found so clearly in
her poems. I did get the feeling that I’d love to sit in a room and argue these
points affectionately with her for a couple of hours, books strewn in front of
us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">8. <a href="http://knopfdoubleday.com/2011/04/06/cynthia-zarin/"><i>The Ada Poems</i> – Cynthia Zarin (Knopf, 2010)</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">"inspired and
inhabited by the title character of Nabokov's novel <i>Ada, or Ardor: A Family
Chronicle</i>, who was the lifelong love of her half brother, Van."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I had another one of
those moments feeling like I will never ever know all of the everything of
poetry that’s out there. I had never heard of Zarin, it’s Knopf(!), published
just 4 years ago, and I really loved the sonic qualities (for instance “Bone-spur,
stirrup of veins” – a bold alliterative/assonant jab-cross combo starts the
book) and the way the vocabulary of the book grows specific and reiterative in
a way siblings or any other intimate pair might build a language.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert Creeley (Zasterle Press, 1991)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">And then I discovered
the shelf with the chapbooks. From then part of my focus in What To Read was to
read things I might not easily come across again. Of course Creeley is
everywhere and many of these poems can be found in various collected. I am
always drawn to him as the very first poet I found useful towards generating my own work. This is not to say I was emulating him or that I could have in any way. It's just to say that in reading his work out loud I realized I could make my inner voice (the poet) start speaking; from there it is all about recording whatever it is that being says and then reworking it. I love a chiasmus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ties <i>Lines the Quarry</i> for the best book I’ve read all year. The only thing
Clarke’s book has that this one doesn’t is a heavy dose (not heavy hand) of
politics/activism. <i>Science & Steepleflower</i> is a wild mixture of forms,
discrete from section to section (six sections in all), that results in a manuscript that
can’t help but feel rather epic and enduring. Some of the vocabulary is so
erudite it’s recondite, but beautiful: their use driven by someone with a clear
love of sound and language and an understanding that that is <i>just. the.
perfect. word</i>. I read this one aloud, while I had company at poetry heaven and
often had cause to pause and say “I have no idea how to pronounce this word” while
then proceeding to stumble through it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">The poems are economic
and erotic, intelligent in vocabulary and syntax, while being playful in sound
and image. And also one (“Landscape With a Man Being Killed By a Snake”)
contains the most unexpected dildo I’ve ever found in a poem: “Vaguely, wetting
the dildo in her mouth / A quel remir contral lums de la lampa / They went on
sleeping in the same bed”</span><span style="color: #1b1a0f; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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photograph on the cover: the image out of focus looks like a torso brightly lit
in a very dark room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trakl, trans. Robin Skelton (Broken Jaw Press, 1994)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I wasn’t greatly
impressed and kept no notes. I mostly picked this one up because I read (and
loved) Christian Hawkey’s <i>Ventrakl </i>when researching a presentation on expanded
modes of translation. I was also having a rather sad evening when I read <i>Dark Seasons</i>
and it was late, so it’s probable that for these reasons little sunk in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Long Soldier (Q Ave Press, 2010)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">"XXY, take them as your
own. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Come. Help care for them</i>, she
says. But it won’t last. A woman with children. A one-bedroom apartment, chips
on the couch, chips on the counter, apple juice. It comes with children’s chips
and the juice. The smell of children, the smell you live in. With chips on the
couch"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I had heard of Malachi
Black because I stay tuned with what local press <a href="https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/index.asp">Copper Canyon</a> is doing (not just because they publish one of my very favorite poets, C.D. Wright, who I also talk about <a href="http://entropymag.org/national-poetry-month-featured-poet-elizabeth-colen/">here</a> and are publishing <a href="http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2014/02/book-preview-richard-sikens-war-of-the-foxes.html">the new, LONG-AWAITED BY ME, book by Richard Siken</a>); CCP is
putting out what I believe is Black’s first full-length later this year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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afternoon <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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July, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Conversational. Lonely seemed the prevailing mood. Occasional second person
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Simplicity / straightforwardness contribute to, or rather, actually engender, a
bit of spookiness / foreboding. In that the poems were grounded much more in narrative<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>than in sound, I didn’t love this book.
But I am glad I gained more familiarity with his work and a greater understanding for how it relates to the major art movements of the first half of the twentieth century. This book would be very
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windows, all the jealousy of our rivals has moved back to the thresholds of the
doors. Nevertheless if nothing was going to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I had never even heard
of this one. Most of it felt like lesser/adolescent work. By that I don’t mean
adolescent in the career of a poet, but rather the work of a teenage boy. Much
hyperbole, adjectival hysteria, and strange flourishes that maximize the
abstract and cause some anxiety in this reader. So that when a poem is good and
says something I can parse it is a beacon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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between these (and one directly follows the other in the chap). I will leave it
to you to decide which one made sense to me and which one didn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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poetic work, a collage work (of personal/family life, cultural information, history
and historical documents, and political considerations), and part of a larger
history and larger project (Unincorporated Territories) that charts the
colonization of Guam. This book is better even than I understand. I am so glad
it’s with Omnidawn and that they just released <a href="http://www.omnidawn.com/products-page/new-upcoming-releases/from-unincorporated-territory-gumacraig-santos-perez/">the next installment</a> (which I’m
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">This book is an
interesting project. Starts with Niedecker’s long poem (“Lake Superior”),
followed by Niedecker’s journal of a road trip through Lake Superior Country
(very engaging) from which you can glean the details and themes that went into
the poem and get something of a glimpse in how she works as a poet, then there’s
Douglas Crase’s essay on the Evolutional Sublime in Niedecker (interesting and
engaging, but as criticism seemed a bit out of place in the volume), letters
between Niedecker and Cid Corman (to this reader actually the highlight of the
book), and then some other stuff that was less interesting / less related for
me: some Basho, part of a guide Niedecker wrote about Wisconsin, “On a Monument
to the Pigeon” by Aldo Leopold, and some writings by early settlers of the Lake
Superior area (Pierre Radisson and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I suppose if I
redefine or lessen my rigid concept of What Makes A Book, I can feel a little
easier about (and even embrace!) the hodge podge project of <i>Lake Superior</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">“Based on Niedecker’s
example, I would sooner argue that ‘leaving out’ is the freedom you fight for
when you can no longer bear the received deceit of the sentence, the
connectives and prepositions that accumulate with the weight of irredeemably
inaccurate history.” —Douglas Crase “Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">“Strange—we are always
inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is
right.” —Lorine Niedecker in a letter to Cid Corman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">19. <i>Sea Ice</i> – Stephen
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">This one was a find. Hard
cover chapbook, beautiful object in and of itself. And the project of the book
and poems were magnificent. In sum they were a retelling of Eskimo songs. For
instance:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I do my best to stay away from the internet on April Fool's day. It's not that I'm gullible--I lean more towards not believing anything I hear--it's that I dislike cleverness more than most people. There's a circularity to it, intelligence used to forward the joke, to forward the look of itself. It's too often a tautology of something I'm not particularly interested in. This is why most gross humor is uninteresting to me as well. And certain styles of contemporary poetry. Poems that take the long road home from, well, home. Poems that don't use their intelligence to go anywhere. April Fool's day pranks feel this way to me. A strutting for the sake of the strut, or to shut someone out. Maybe this isn't making a whole lot of sense. It's not something I've thought through thoroughly. Just another minor disinterest in the grand scheme of things. Some pranks can be utterly fantastic though, can shed a different light on something. Much of what The Onion does, for example. So, if you've pulled something really great today: good on you.<br />
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And if you thought that would be the lead-in to talk of some really stunning fooling, sorry to disappoint! I would rather talk about the elegant way nature is making a fool of itself these days (spring! spring!) and about, yes, what I'm reading.<br />
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What I came here to do today before heading back into the sunshine and books and pruning to be done in my front yard is to list a quarterly reading report. This year I have decided to write mini-reviews for each book because I realize that from lists just two years ago there are several titles I have absolutely no recollection of. I do not keep a journal, but if I did it would probably just look something like that: mini-reviews and clippings of things I like, vague outcroppings of contemplation on how literature conforms, expands, or rejects my world view. And then I would talk about my dog. But nothing else, for fear of being found out. No joke.<br />
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I may or may not compile the reviews and include them here later. For now, just the list, simply. It includes several of the books I picked up at AWP (which numbered what-is-not-nearly-as-astounding-as-it-could-have-been - 32 books).<br />
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<li>New Year Letter - W.H. Auden</li>
<li>Eating in the Underworld – Rachel
Zucker</li>
<li>Apocalypse Theory: A Reader –
Kristy Bowen</li>
<li>The Fall – Albert Camus</li>
<li>Quipu – Arthur Sze</li>
<li>Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan
Didion</li>
<li>Stories That Listen – Priscilla
Becker</li>
<li>A Coney Island of the Mind –
Lawrence Ferlinghetti</li>
<li>Sayonara Michelangelo – Waldemar
Januszczak</li>
<li>The Book of Frank – CA Conrad</li>
<li>Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir
of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality – Jacob Tomsky</li>
<li>My Lorenzo – Sebastien Smirou</li>
<li>Impossible Princess – Kevin
Killian</li>
<li>Madness – Marya Hornbacher</li>
<li>The Monarchs – Melanie Noel</li>
<li>–The Vital System – CM Burroughs</li>
<li>Children of the Days: A Calendar
of Human History – Eduardo Galeano</li>
<li>On Ghosts – Elizabeth Robinson</li>
<li>Enormous Changes at the Last
Minute – Grace Paley</li>
<li>Both Flesh and Not – David Foster
Wallace</li>
<li>When My Brother Was an Aztec –
Natalie Diaz</li>
<li>The Next Monsters – Julie Doxsee</li>
<li>--Herman Hesse: Pictorial
Biography</li>
<li>Drift – Rachel Maddow</li>
<li>Make Me a Mother – Susanne
Antonetta</li>
<li>We Come Elemental – Tamiko Beyer</li>
<li>The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald</li>
<li>Pact-Blood, Fever Grass – Miriam
Bird Greenberg</li>
<li>MxT – Sina Queyras</li>
<li>Dark Sky Question – Larissa
Szporluk</li>
<li>Spectacle – Susan Steinberg</li>
<li>The White Album – Joan Didion</li>
<li>All You Do Is Perceive – Joy Katz</li>
<li>Whip Smart – Melissa Febos</li>
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I have also just started Gregory Robinson's All Movies Love the Moon and Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense and have nearly finished Ronald Johnson's Ark.<o:p></o:p><br />
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If only all things could be designed and kept to as well as an engaging reading list.<br />
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Oh, also, this: <a href="http://megallenstudio.com/#/butch/">Meg Allen</a>. I came across this photo series over the weekend and have liked it very much. Butch pride, y'all. In all its forms.<br />
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<br />ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-8588073661540830592014-02-05T15:37:00.004-08:002014-03-20T10:39:04.064-07:00on saturationI am wondering about the relationship between good work, success, and self-promotion. I haven't come to any conclusions, but I am thinking about it. The louder the better? The louder the better known? How to find good work? I mean, I just ask a few people I trust for reading recommendations. Places like facebook are so saturated with people yelling about all kinds of things that I don't find it an appropriate place to be led to things that excite me.<br />
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Lately I am loving Melanie Noel's The Monarchs and Natalie Diaz's When My Brother was an Aztec and kind of liking Grace Paley's short stories. I'm reading Enormous Changes at the Last Minute and the stories are really solid, but some of them bore me and some are out of this world fantastic. And (on deck) I really want to read all of the new Ricochet Editions books and Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense, which I feel like I should have read by now.<br />
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Happy reading, y'all.<br />
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<br />ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-18084547932412300992014-01-01T09:52:00.001-08:002014-01-04T16:29:37.814-08:002013's book listThis year my goal was 150 books. I don't usually set the goal until I get about midway through the year when I feel like I can gauge the possibilities. The first half of 2013 started off slow, as I was in school. And then there were huge stretches where I was going through a bit of a valley emotionally and nothing seemed to stick as fabulous. For this reason, there are some things I will have to go back to.<br />
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For the first day of the year today I am reading Auden. For last, well, here it is, all 100 by women, 47 by men, 3 by both, 30 nonfiction, 28 fiction, 92 poetry:<br />
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<li>Just Kids – Patti Smith</li>
<li>The World Doesn’t End – Charles
Simic</li>
<li>Just Whisper: A Valentine – C.D.
Wright</li>
<li>Why Be Happy When You Could Be
Normal? – Jeannette Winterson</li>
<li>The Game of Boxes – Catherine
Barnett</li>
<li>Watching Lumia – Nick Admussen</li>
<li>Tip of the Iceberg – Laura
Szumowski</li>
<li>The Art Lover – Carole Maso</li>
<li>Madness, Rack, and Honey – Mary Ruefle</li>
<li>–Collected Poems – Marianne Moore</li>
<li>Nomina – Karen Volkman</li>
<li>Great American Prose Poems: From
Poe to the Present – Ed. David Lehman</li>
<li>Time and Materials – Robert Hass</li>
<li>As If A Bird Flew By Me – Sara
Greenslit</li>
<li>Translucent Salamander – CAConrad</li>
<li>How Literature Saved My Life –
(David Shields)</li>
<li>News of the World – Philip Levine</li>
<li>Harm – Hillary Gravendyk</li>
<li>The Bruise – Magdalena Zurawski</li>
<li>--Rent Boy – Gary Indiana</li>
<li>Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse –
Darcie Dennigan</li>
<li>Theophobia – Bruce Beasley</li>
<li>Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
– Alison Bechdel</li>
<li>Shelter – Laura Jensen</li>
<li>If Not Metamorphic – Brenda Iijima</li>
<li>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest –
Ken Kesey</li>
<li>Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut</li>
<li>Flowers of Evil – Charles
Baudelaire</li>
<li>Our Lady of the Ruins – Traci
Brimhall</li>
<li>Carnival – Jason Bredle</li>
<li>Two Kinds of Decay – Sarah Manguso</li>
<li>–Readings in World Literature –
Srikanth Reddy</li>
<li>The Monkey’s Mask – Dorothy Porter</li>
<li>Render / An Apocalypse – Rebecca
Gayle Howell</li>
<li>The Lake Has No Saint – Stacey
Waite</li>
<li>Baguette – Emily Kendal Frey</li>
<li>Quiet – Susan Cain</li>
<li>Begging for it – Alex Dimitrov</li>
<li>Full Catastrophe Living – Zach Savich</li>
<li>The Commandrine and Other Poems –
Joyelle McSweeney</li>
<li>Small Porcelain Head – Allison
Benis White</li>
<li>Fortino Samano (The Overflowing of
the Poem) – Virginie Lalucq & Jean-Luc Nancy</li>
<li>Heavenly Questions - Gjertrud
Schnackenberg</li>
<li>Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits – Bill Porter</li>
<li>Potential Strangers – Killarney
Clary</li>
<li>Human Dark With Sugar – Brenda
Shaughnessy</li>
<li>Video Tape – Andrew Zawacki</li>
<li>--Riva: A Chapter – Soham Patel</li>
<li>My Life and My Life in the
Nineties – Lyn Hejiinian</li>
<li>Blood – Shane McCrae</li>
<li>The Craft of Translation – John Biguenet and Rainer Schulte, eds.</li>
<li>Theories of Translation – Rainer
Schulte and John Biguenet, eds.</li>
<li>–F IN – Carol Guess</li>
<li>Snapshots – Alain Robbe-Grillet</li>
<li>Deepstep Come Shining – C.D.
Wright</li>
<li>Drawing Water – Eva Heisler</li>
<li>Alphabet - Inger Christensen</li>
<li>On Sal Mal Lane – Ru Freeman</li>
<li>Open Winter – Rae Gouirand</li>
<li>Another Governess/The Least
Blacksmith – Joanna Ruocco</li>
<li>The History of Anonymity –
Jennifer Chang</li>
<li>–Say Goodnight – Timothy Liu</li>
<li>Poems in the Rough – Paul Valery</li>
<li>Body Toxic – Susanne Antonetta</li>
<li>Play – Liz Waldner</li>
<li>The Writer’s Notebook: Craft
Essays from Tin House</li>
<li>O Holy Insurgency – Mary Biddinger</li>
<li>Beyond Heart Mountain – Lee Ann
Roripaugh</li>
<li>Drought – Debra DiBlasi</li>
<li>The Orphan Conducts the Dovehouse
Orchestra – Deborah Woodard</li>
<li>The Boss – Victoria Chang</li>
<li>Bough Down – Karen Green</li>
<li>Dreams of My Russian Summers –
Andrei Makine</li>
<li>Notes of an Anatomist – F.
Gonzalez-Crussi</li>
<li>Collected Poems (Ghost Money, Star
Ledger, The Only World) – Lynda Hull</li>
<li>The Bridge – Hart Crane</li>
<li>A Meaningful Life – L.J. Davis</li>
<li>Starts with O – Olga Broumas</li>
<li>Human Nature – Alice Anderson</li>
<li>Medieval Scenes – Robert Duncan</li>
<li>–Veronica – Mary Gaitskill</li>
<li>By Night in Chile – Roberto Bolano</li>
<li>All My Pretty Ones – Anne Sexton</li>
<li>The Mansion of Happiness – Robin
Ekiss</li>
<li>The Terrible Stories – Lucille
Clifton</li>
<li>At the Bottom of the River –
Jamaica Kincaid</li>
<li>The Girl with Brown Fur – Stacey
Levine</li>
<li>Blue Nights – Joan Didion</li>
<li>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter –
Carson McCullers</li>
<li>My Brother – Jamaica Kincaid</li>
<li>The Poetics of Space – Gaston
Bachelard</li>
<li>Have You Seen Me? – Sandra
Cisneros</li>
<li>Burial – Claire Donato</li>
<li>Barf: A Manifesto – Dodie Bellamy</li>
<li>+|’me’S-pace – Chr|st|ne Werthe|m</li>
<li>Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir
1969-1980 – Lucille Clifton</li>
<li>Death Centos – Diana Arterian</li>
<li>Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov</li>
<li>Afterpastures – Claire Hero</li>
<li>–--Fierce Attachments – Vivian
Gornick</li>
<li>Love, Like Pronouns – Rosmarie
Waldrop</li>
<li>Musca Domestica – Christine Hume</li>
<li>The Situation and What Crosses It
– Amy Schrader</li>
<li>Concentricity – Sheila Murphy</li>
<li>An Alphabet for Gourmets – MFK
Fisher</li>
<li>Archer Avenue – Kristy Bowen</li>
<li>Useless Landscape, or A Guide for
Boys – D. A. Powell</li>
<li>Eulogies – Elizabeth Soto</li>
<li>The Body Artist – Don DeLillo</li>
<li>Darkness Visible – William Styron</li>
<li>Break the Glass – Jean Valentine</li>
<li>Destroyer and Preserver – Matthew
Rohrer</li>
<li>Abstraktion und Einfühlung – Percival Everett</li>
<li>Prayers of an Accidental Nature –
Debra Di Blasi</li>
<li>Strangeland – Tracey Emin</li>
<li>The Orchard – Brigit Pegeen Kelly</li>
<li>50 American Plays – the Dickman
twins</li>
<li>Holy Land – Rauan Klassnik</li>
<li>Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki
Marukami</li>
<li>The Universe War – Guy Benjamin
Brookshire</li>
<li>My Mother: Demonology – Kathy
Acker</li>
<li>--I Was There For Your Somniloquy
– Kelli Anne Noftle</li>
<li>The Angel Esmerelda: Nine Stories
– Don Delillo</li>
<li>Poems & Prose – Gerard Manley
Hopkins</li>
<li>Self and Simulacra – Liz Waldner</li>
<li>Liliane’s Balcony: A Novella of
Fallingwater – Kelcey Parker</li>
<li>67 Mixed Messages – Ed Allen</li>
<li>The Fortieth Day – Kazim Ali</li>
<li>Vulgar Remedies – Anna Journey</li>
<li>Black Dog Songs – Lisa Jarnot</li>
<li>This Connection of Everyone With
Lungs – Juliana Spahr</li>
<li>Theories of Falling – Sandra
Beasley</li>
<li>–I was the Jukebox – Sandra
Beasley</li>
<li>Tender Buttons – Gertrude Stein</li>
<li>Life on Mars – Tracy K. Smith</li>
<li>Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
– Thomas Sayers Ellis</li>
<li>Revolver – Robyn Schiff</li>
<li>Cooling Time: An American Poetry
Vigil – C.D. Wright</li>
<li>Negro League Baseball – Harmony
Holiday</li>
<li>The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning –
Maggie Nelson</li>
<li>Garbage – A.R. Ammons</li>
<li>Reading Emily Dickinson in
Icelandic – Eva Heisler</li>
<li>One Hundred Apocalypses and Other
Apocalypses – Lucy Corin</li>
<li>The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting:
The Life of Lee Harvey Oswald – Abner Smith</li>
<li>Bright Power, Dark Peace – Traci
Brimhall & Brynn Saito</li>
<li>Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on
Love and Life from Dear Sugar – Cheryl Strayed</li>
<li>Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and
other Off and Back Handed Importunities – Olena Kalytiak Davis</li>
<li>A Magic Book – Sasha Steensen</li>
<li>Aliens & Anorexia – Chris
Kraus</li>
<li>Flowering Mall – Brandon Brown</li>
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And while I hate to play favorites, some that I really loved (of those I was reading for the first time) include Mary Ruefle's Madness Rack and Honey, Allison Benis White's Small Porcelain Head, Bruce Beasley's Theophobia, Andrew Zawaki's Video Tape, C.D. Wright's Deepstep Come Shining, Jennifer Chang's The History of Anonymity, Brandon Brown's Flowering Mall, and Lucy Corin's One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is the day after Thanksgiving. There was no turkey. But there were magic tricks. And whiskey. I made my signature dish of kale& butternut squash over herbed polenta with blue cheese crumbles& pomegranate seeds with a drizzle of balsamic fig reduction. The reduction alone takes two hours (while I stir and watch old X-Files on Netflix) and makes me smell wonderful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now it's black Friday and I am still in my bed mulling over a dream of margaritas and buttery nipples on the topside of a cruise ship. I have never been on a cruise, though sometimes that three-hour ferry to Vancouver Island feels like it should count as one. No buffet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This morning I finished (re)reading (every time I come to this book I come to it new) Juliana Spahr's <i>This Connection of Everyone With Lungs </i>and I finished reading Lisa Jarnot's <i>Black Dog Songs</i>, which is incantatory in its sounds and repetitions, a book I am sure I will return to for this, but never in its entirety. I have also been paging through <i>The Arcadia Project</i> while thinking about what models I may use for the class I'm teaching at the Hugo House next week on ecopoetics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For now though I've turned to Sandra Beasley's <i>Theories of Falling. </i>I have only read Beasley's poems in journals and always liked them. Then her work came up at a dinner with somany poets a few weeks ago (initially in relation to allergies) and so last week while perusing a friend's shelves I decided to borrow her two books of poems and overall am finding I like them very much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Who doesn't love a small kingdom?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The lion has her pride, the mole <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> grows three kinds of basil, and I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the golden ratio of its chambers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the figure 8 of nerve endings—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Washed up, its perfect enclosure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> reeks of salt. I sort by color. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I file by coast. I know a man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">dream of cleaning out her small <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">kingdom, tilting the whole stable <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">on its Augean edge? Who doesn't love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the disaster of her own making? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">in my pocket, before I burn <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The way
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<!--EndFragment-->ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-35546717396993995182013-10-17T10:11:00.001-07:002013-10-17T10:11:54.290-07:00Percival EverettPROCESS<br />
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1<br />
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The ritual of making<br />
dies upon completion.<br />
<br />
The body remembers,<br />
like making love.<br />
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The body remembers<br />
the gestures,<br />
<br />
the midair changes,<br />
the fall of an arm,<br />
<br />
the angle of approach,<br />
of withdrawal.<br />
<br />
A calligraphy<br />
survives completion,<br />
<br />
but the making<br />
is long long done.<br />
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<br />
2<br />
<br />
The midair<br />
changes<br />
are the<br />
tough<br />
ones.<br />
<br />
Catch me<br />
before<br />
I release,<br />
if you please,<br />
can.<br />
<br />
<br />
3<br />
<br />
eye<br />
raylease<br />
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<br />ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-85475228289173364692013-09-19T18:03:00.000-07:002013-09-19T18:03:01.073-07:00Happy birthday, brother. Love and miss you. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-83949948057511209012013-04-22T16:20:00.000-07:002013-04-22T16:47:15.720-07:00Upcoming reading...Hello! I promise to get better at updating once I graduate, but! I wanted to shout out about this reading that happens in a few days:<br />
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This weekend there is the hard-to-remember-the-name-of-no-matter-how-many-times-I-hear-it <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/118633338329529/">Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues</a> reading series on Saturday, April 27 at 6pm. I will be reading at Liberty Bar in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle with my friend, and one of my very favorite poets Tarfia Faizullah, a former classmate from WWU who has taken the noir side of the fiction world by storm and whose second book has just come out Urban Waite, as well as others I do not know as well, but am equally excited to read with: Jamaal May, Tara Conklin, and local Seattle luminary Tara Hardy.<br />
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<br />ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-85440861259550530702013-04-19T21:17:00.003-07:002013-04-19T21:17:30.038-07:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cally Maude and I spent much of the day on the couch today. With books. And internet news. But mostly books.</td></tr>
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<br />ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-80803183730575384922013-03-02T19:59:00.001-08:002013-03-02T19:59:27.987-08:00Lambda Literary, etc.Super excited to have this interview up on Lambda Literary:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.lambdaliterary.org/interviews/02/20/elizabeth-j-colen-grand-conspiracy-theories/">"I realized that what conspiracy theories are—if they aren’t true—are our way of seeking order, of making sense of the chaos of these terrible events..."</a></span><br />
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<br />
In other news, I am not going to AWP this year. Something about six hours on a plane. And Boston in winter. Also, I'm responsibly wrapping up this quarter's teaching. I'm not an old pro like some people who can take week 9 of a 10-week quarter off without everything falling apart. I jest!<br />
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But I am loving my students this quarter. Last week we talked about revising creative work. Something that I do all the time, of course (and obsessively!), but not something I've ever actually <i>thought</i> about procedure-wise. The process of constructing a lesson plan around teaching non-cw majors how to revise creative writing was really instructive. And actually forced me to reimagine two recent poems to their betterment. Accidentally.<br />
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I also learned, for example, that I will panic students who hear me say that rarely does anything of mine see the light of day before it has undergone 20-40 revisions. We talked about 3 being the vital low number of revisions: global, paragraph, sentence. (Or in poetry, of course, global, stanza, line.) And then fourteen strategies for paragraph- and sentence-level considerations.<br />
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It seems impossible to believe that things are winding down. One quarter left of grad school, round two. Come June I will have one degree in fiction, and this new-minted poetry degree. I feel like I could do it all over again. I like being in school, and hope that the teaching I hope to do in the future allows me to feel in some ways that I'm in that cycle of endless accretion of knowledge.<br />
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All I ever want is books and good conversation. Well, a few other things too.<br />
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ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-6546931999060642302013-01-04T20:07:00.001-08:002013-01-04T20:12:21.265-08:00Books read in 2012!About half of these are repeats / books I've read before. Several of these books I also read more than once this year. As Sheri said, yes, I am in grad school. The land of close reading. I'm currently working on finishing up my "critical thesis," focusing on books that have both prose and lineated poetry. My five favorites (if I count only "new" reads; i.e. Crush is still my favorite, and I still want to marry Liz Waldner, and I still want to marry Anne Carson, and Karen Volkman, and Richard Greenfield, etc, etc) were: Letters to Yesenin, Tjanting, My Life, The Vicious Red Relic, and Point and Line. Tjanting changed my life. The Vicious Red Relic was unlike anything I've ever read, and the other three favorites? Well, damn if I don't wish I'd written them myself. The Apocalypse (#3) was also life-changing in that part of it became the epigraph for <a href="http://jadedibisproductions.com/WAITING.html">Waiting Up for the End of the World</a>. Without further ado... the list:<br />
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1. Letters to Yesenin – Jim Harrison<br />
2. Dismantling the Silence – Charles Simic<br />
3. The Apocalypse – John of Patmos<br />
4. Dream Songs – John Berryman<br />
5. Trilogy – HD<br />
6. That This – Susan Howe<br />
7. The Home Book – James Schuyler<br />
8. Fjords vol. 1 – Zachary Schomburg<br />
9. Splay Anthem – Nathaniel Mackey<br />
10. The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song – Ellen Bryant Voigt<br />
11. High Windows – Philip Larkin<br />
12. Tjanting – Ron Silliman<br />
13. The New Sentence – Ron Silliman<br />
14. My Life – Lyn Hejinian<br />
15. Meditations in an Emergency – Frank O’Hara<br />
16. Eyeshot – Heather McHugh<br />
17. Under Albany – Ron Silliman<br />
18. 3 Poems – John Ashbery<br />
19. The Lost Son – Theodore Roethke<br />
20. 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking – Tan Lin<br />
21. Slow Lightning – Eduardo C. Corral<br />
22. The Latest Winter – Maggie Nelson<br />
23. Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins<br />
24. Kora in Hell – William Carlos Williams<br />
25. Out – Ronald Sukenick<br />
26. Close Your Eyes Look at Me – E. Marie Bertram<br />
27. Museum of Accidents – Rachel Zucker<br />
28. Erasures – Donald Revell<br />
29. A Point is That Which Has No Part – Liz Waldner<br />
30. Homing Devices – Liz Waldner<br />
31. Facts for Visitors – Srikanth Reddy<br />
32. Voyager – Srikanth Reddy<br />
33. Point and Line – Thalia Field<br />
34. The New Black – Evie Shockley<br />
35. My Common Heart – Anne Boyer<br />
36. Delivered – Sarah Gambito<br />
37. Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie – Joshua Harmon<br />
38. So We Have Been Given Time Or – Sawako Nakayasu<br />
39. Girls – Nic Kelman<br />
40. Savage Girls and Wild Boys – Michael Newton<br />
41. Anabranch – Andrew Zawacki<br />
42. The Vicious Red Relic, Love – Anna Joy Springer<br />
43. In Media Res – Karen An-hwei Lee<br />
44. The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound – Marjorie Perloff & Craig Dworkin (ads)<br />
45. Peculiar Motions – Rosmarie Waldrop<br />
46. Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry – Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek (eds)<br />
47. Clamor – Elyse Fenton<br />
48. The American Prose Poem – Michel Delville<br />
49. Deepstep Come Shining – C.D. Wright<br />
50. Heart First into the Forest – Stacy Gnall<br />
51. Dora: A Headcase – Lidia Yuknavitch<br />
52. The Revolution Happened and You Didn’t Call Me – Maged Zaher<br />
53. The Balloonists – Eula Biss<br />
54. This is Not a Novel – David Markson<br />
55. Except by Nature – Sandra Alcosser<br />
56. The Guardians – Sarah Manguso<br />
57. The Pharmacist’s Mate – Amy Fusselman<br />
58. Paris Spleen – Charles Baudelaire<br />
59. The Very Thing That Happens – Russell Edson<br />
60. The Elusive Embrace – Daniel Mendelsohn<br />
61. Letters to Wendy’s – Joe Wenderoth<br />
62. Plainwater – Anne Carson<br />
63. Free Verse – Charles O. Hartman<br />
64. The Book of Embraces – Eduardo Galeano<br />
65. Within the Context of No Context – George W.S. Trow<br />
66. Spar – Karen Volkman<br />
67. Sad Little Breathing Machine – Matthea Harvey<br />
68. Crash’s Law – Karen Volkman<br />
69. Speedboat – Renata Adler<br />
70. The World Doesn’t End – Charles Simic<br />
71. Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy – Keith Waldrop<br />
72. Early Poems – Charles Simic<br />
73. Saying the World – Peter Pereira<br />
74. Paterson – William Carlos Williams<br />
75. Goldbeater's Skin – G.C. Waldrep<br />
76. There Are Three – Donald Revell<br />
77. Invisible Bride – Tony Tost<br />
78. Melancholia – Kristina Marie Darling<br />
79. Bin Ramke – Matter<br />
80. A Carnage in the Lovetrees – Richard Greenfield<br />
81. Just Whisper: A Valentine – C.D. Wright<br />
82. The Firestorm – Zach Savich<br />
83. Remote – David Shields<br />
84. Crush – Richard Siken<br />
85. Notes from Irrelevance – Anselm Berrigan
ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-85573567841447779562012-10-29T19:53:00.001-07:002012-10-29T19:53:39.417-07:00WAITING UP FOR THE END OF THE WORLD is available!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The new book can be found <a href="http://jadedibisproductions.com/PREORDER.html">here...</a> deeply discounted for the moment! I highly recommend the color; I have been carrying around a copy myself and fondling the pages nonstop since I got my copy! (Though I am a little biased...)<br />
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Hope y'all are staying safe out there in the east, my friends.<br />
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<br />ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-45967891167372061812012-09-19T15:10:00.000-07:002012-09-19T15:10:10.316-07:00September 19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy birthday, brother. I hope you're well and happy in all things wherever you are.</div>
ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-53953502615008067132012-08-21T11:02:00.001-07:002012-08-21T11:02:12.022-07:00Distance makes the heart grow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From Yoko Tawada's "The Art of Being Nonsynchronous":<br />
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<i>Before digital technologies became a part of everyday life, the letter was considered one of the most important instruments for the transport of words. Even the telephone was unable to destroy the culture of letter writing. People who before had frequently written letters continued to do so to communicate things they preferred not to say on the telephone. The letter has developed its own for of distance that allows people to express things it might be difficult to say in person. This has less to do with inhibitions or politeness than with style. Writing a letter, you can borrow this or that turn of phrase from literary tradition to apply to your own life much more easily than on the phone. It wasn't until the advent of electronic communication that the culture of letter writing began to lose some of its dominance. There are many differences between an email and a letter on paper, but one in particular stands out, namely, the consciousness on the part of both sender and recipient of the distance between them. Even in the case of an overseas email, people tend to expect a response in the next few hours, as if the recipient's desk were in the same room. Mentioning the time difference or weather in an international email can already be interpreted as a personal, even romantic gesture. A handwritten letter, however, almost automatically announces the writer's absence to its recipient. </i>ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-64662255600822229942012-08-12T16:12:00.002-07:002012-08-12T16:12:31.718-07:00SporkA few days ago, this went live: <a href="http://sporkpress.com/fiction/?p=951">http://sporkpress.com/fiction/?p=951</a> - a few more prose poems from What Weaponry.<br />
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Almost everything I have ever read at Spork Press I have loved; today I read this: <a href="http://sporkpress.com/fiction/?p=794">http://sporkpress.com/fiction/?p=794</a> - Knots by Sam Ramos. It is beautiful. This is from that:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Slim Beauty Knot ties down all things wanted and loved so they will never be missed.</span>ejcolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06594110892122609882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235041470287973967.post-21578169084008706762012-08-12T13:53:00.000-07:002012-08-12T13:53:54.770-07:00Trains, Strange, and BranchesIn two weeks the travel starts. Me on a train. Me at my aunt's wedding in Monmouth, then me on a train for a day and a half, a two-hour layover in LA's Union Station, then another two days on the train, this time with lie-down and feed-me accommodations (as in, I got a room). I get a room when I go to Kansas because the train ride ends for me at 3am. Then I get to hope my rental car is waiting there in the station dark, parked someplace I can find, key handed to me by the disinterested party of the station attendant (after all his other chores of off-loading and loading passengers is done). The last time I waited 25 minutes in the blue station light, watching the child's-fist-sized flying midwestern bugs beat themselves senseless against the overlarge lights on the platform outside. <div>
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I get the keys and I drive for an hour and a half. I hope my grandfather has left the door unlocked. Otherwise I look for the key, if I remember he keeps one hidden outside. I will get to his house at 5am. If I can't get in I go to the all night Walmart and try on sunglasses and drink chocolate milk and sit under a light in the parking lot where fist-sized bugs beat themselves 20 feet above me. I read a book or I nap. I hope the right people travel through the parking lot, if any travel through at all. I am afraid of small towns in the middle of the night. I am right to do so. I grew up in a small town. I grew up gay in a small town. I am right to be nervous. </div>
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But nothing has ever happened to me there. My grandfather's town feels good to me. I get to his house a few hours later when I know he is up and drinking decaf and reading the morning paper if the morning paper has found its way inside to him. Now he is less mobile though, and no longer takes the paper; he told me last week. What I will do without the crossword and sudoku and jumble, I do not know. What I will do without the local news to educate me on their ways. I will eye the big bottle of bourbon too early. I will talk about the ice road truckers. I will show pictures of my dog. I will listen to him breathe, and listen to his oxygen machine breathe. I will wish things had been different, and that I had known him for more than just these past several years. He's a good guy. Interesting and smart. And so am I. We get along. Laugh at the same things, vote the same way. We think the same women are beautiful usually.</div>
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My parents separated when I was five. And it was ugly. And then none of us lived in Kansas anymore. And everyone hated everyone. And I saw my grandparents when I was ten and then never again. Until I made it happen when I was 27. My grandmother died a month later. Now I go back every year.</div>
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This isn't what I meant to talk about.</div>
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I meant to say what I was reading. Partly in preparation for the journey. </div>
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I just finished reading Michael Newton's Savage Girls and Wild Boys and am typing up notes. (An odd relation: I get off the train in Newton, KS.) I am reading Andrew Zawacki's Anabranch. Slowly, the way I read things that are good. Things that stun me. </div>
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And this, I read today by Anna Journey:<a href="http://atlengthmag.com/prose/strange-merchants/"> http://atlengthmag.com/prose/strange-merchants/</a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In the classic anthropological text, The Stranger (1908), German sociologist Georg Simmel articulates his concept of a unique sociological form. A “peculiar tension” arises, Simmel suggests, from “the stranger,” who manages to be both close to and remote from us at once. The value of such figures in society, then, stems from the strangers’ “objectivity.” Because they aren’t intimately connected with our lives, we feel freer to confess to them our secrets. In pre-modern societies, Simmel writes, most strangers within a group made their living as traders or tradesman, those “‘strange’ merchants” who move closely among us in a crowd, performing necessary tasks, even as they remain enigmatic.</span></div>
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