Monday, March 7, 2016

Read / re-read in 2015


  1. Here – Richard McGuire (Pantheon, 2014)**
  2. The Albertine Workout – Anne Carson (New Directions, 2014)**
  3. one love affair – Jenny Boully (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006)
  4. Selected Poems – William Bronk (New Directions, 1995)
  5. Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals – Patricia Lockwood (Penguin 2014)
  6. -Bluets – Maggie Nelson (Wave Books, 2009)
  7. Enter Invisible – Catherine Wing (Sarabande, 2005)
  8. MOTHERs – Rachel Zucker (Counterpath, 2014)**
  9. The Law of Averages – Trevor Dodge (Chiasmus, 2014)
  10. The Book of Embraces – Eduardo Galeano (Norton, 1991)
  11. Life on Earth – Frederick Seidel (FSG, 2001)
  12. Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives – Susan Howe (New Directions, 2014)**
  13. Storm Toward Morning – Malachi Black (Copper Canyon, 2014)
  14. The Singing Knives – Frank Stanford (Lost Roads, 1977)
  15. Between Ourselves: The Photographs of Mari Mahr (Serpent’s Tail, 1998)
  16. The Sounds of Poetry – Robert Pinsky (FSG, 1998)
  17. Evidence – Luc Sante (Noonday, 1992)
  18. The End of Free Love – Susan Steinberg (FC2, 2003)
  19. Tremble – C.D. Wright (Ecco, 1996)
  20. The Pink Institution – Selah Saterstrom (Coffeehouse Press, 2004)
  21. Daughter – Janice Lee (Jaded Ibis Press, 2011)
  22. You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake – Anna Moschovakis (Coffee House, 2011)
  23. Paradise – Herve Guibert, trans. James Kirkup (Quartet Books, 1992)
  24. --Excavation – Wendy Ortiz (Future Tense Books, 2014)
  25. Rain of the Future - Valerie Mejer (Action Books, 2014)
  26. Times Square Red Times Square Blue – Samuel Delany (New York University Press, 1999)
  27. The End of Beauty – Jorie Graham (Ecco, 1987)
  28. The Fortieth Day – Kazim Ali (BOA, 2008)
  29. For a Reading: A Selection of Poems – Michael Palmer (The Reed Foundation Poetry Chapbook Series, 1988)
  30. The Spectral Wilderness – Oliver Bendorf (Kent State University Press, 2015)
  31. –Man’s Companions – Joanna Ruocco (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010)
  32. Ghost Image – Herve Guibert (reprint, University of Chicago Press, 2014), trans. Robert Bonnono
  33. Ayiti – Roxane Gay (Artistically Declined Press, 2011)
  34. –Battleborn – Claire Vaye Watkins (Riverhead,
  35. The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
  36. Say Goodnight – Timothy Liu (Copper Canyon, 1998)
  37. Under the Sun – Rachel Levitsky (Futurepoem, 2003)
  38. The Argonauts – Maggie Nelson (Graywolf, 2015)**
  39. This Boring Apocalypse – Brandi Wells (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015)
  40. Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson (Picador, 1992)
  41. Queer Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures in Lesbian and Gay Studies (The Feminist Press, 2003)
  42. The Midnight – Susan Howe (New Directions, 2003)
  43. 100 Love Sonnets – Pablo Neruda (University of Texas Press reissue, 1986)
  44. –The Place of Scraps – Jordan Abel (Talon Books, 2013)
  45. On the Shortness of Life – Seneca (Penguin, 2005)
  46. Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion (FSG, 1970)
  47. About a Mountain – John D’Agata (Norton, 2010)  “Sometimes we misplace knowledge in pursuit of information” (189) 
  48. That Thing You Do With Your Mouth – Samantha Matthews (McSweeneys, 2015)
  49. Lore – Laynie Browne (Instress, 1998)
  50. Incapacity - Jeanne Heuving (Chiasmus Press, 2004)
  51. Decomp – Stephen Collis & Jordan Scott (Coach House, 2013)
  52. Things Seen – Annie Ernaux (Bison Books, 2010)
  53. After-Cave – Michelle Detorie (Ahsahta, 2014)
  54. Charming Gardeners – David Biespiel (University of Washington Press, 2013)
  55. Neil – J. Bradley (Five Quarterly, 2015)
  56. –Things to Do With Your Mouth – Divya Victor (Les Figues, 2013)
  57. The Interrogative Mood – Padgett Powell (Ecco, 2009)
  58. Tall Stranger – Gillian Conoley (Carnegie Mellon, 1991)
  59. Orange Roses – Lucy Ives (Ahsahta Press, 2013)
  60. Leash – Jane Delynn (Semiotext(e), 2002)
  61. The Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture: The 2012 Edition – Charles Jensen (MiPOesis, 2012)
  62. Wild With It – Aliki Barnstone (Sheep Meadow, 2002)
  63. A History of the Unmarried – Stephen S. Mills (Sibling Rivalry, 2014)
  64. The Empathy Exams – Leslie Jamison (Graywolf, 2014)
  65. Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay (Harper Perennial, 2014)
  66. At Night – Lisa Ciccarello (Black Ocean, 2015)**
  67. Binary Star – Sarah Gerard (Two Dollar Radio, 2015)**
  68. My Body is a Book of Rules – Elissa Washuta (Red Hen Press, 2014)
  69. Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays – Eula Biss (Graywolf, 2009)
  70. War of the Foxes – Richard Siken (Copper Canyon, 2015)
  71. The Strange Library – Haruki Murakami (Knopf, 2014)
  72. Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic – Eva Heisler (Kore Press, 2012)
  73. Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption from South Central to Hollywood – Ice-T & Douglas Century (Ballantine, 2012)
  74. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells (1896)
  75. The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal – Desmond Morris (Laurel, 1980)
  76. Mad to Live: A Collection of Erasures – Randall Brown, etc. (Matter Press, 2015)
  77. My Alexandria – Mark Doty (University of Illinois Press, 1993)
  78. You Must Revise Your Life – William Stafford (University of Michigan Press, 1987)
  79. --GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary – Ed. Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, and Riki Wilchins (Alyson, 2002)
  80. Tantalus in Love – Alan Shapiro (Mariner, 2005)
  81. Illuminations – Arthur Rimbaud (New Directions, 1946)
  82. Women Born With Fur – Beth Couture (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014)
  83. Out from the Pleiades – Leslie McGrath (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014)
  84. Ventrakl – Christian Hawkey (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010)
  85. Sappho: A Garland – The Poems & Fragments of Sappho – trans. Jim Powell (FSG, 1994)
  86. The Body – Jenny Boully (Essay Press, 2002)
  87. Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films – Wayne Koestenbaum (Turtle Point Press, 2006)
  88. The Trees Around – Chris Tonelli (Birds LLC, 2010)
  89. –Marriage: A Sentence – Anne Waldman (Penguin, 2000)
  90. First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far) – eds. Labonte & Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007)
  91. Desperate Characters – Paula Fox (Norton reissue, 2010)
  92. Don’t Go Back to Sleep – Timothy Liu (Saturnalia, 2014)
  93. Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson – Laura Sims (powerHouse Books, 2014)
  94. Selected Poems – William Bronk (New Directions, 1995)
  95. --Big Towns, Big Talk – Patricia Smith (Zoland Books, 1992)
  96. With Animal – Carol Guess & Kelly Magee (Black Lawrence Press, 2015)
  97. Man V. Nature – Diane Cook (Harper, 2014)
  98. Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates (Random House, 2015)
  99. The Master Letters – Lucie Brock-Broido (Knopf, 1995)
  100. --Rebecca Letters – Laynie Browne (Kelsey St. Press, 1997)
  101. Lovely, Raspberry – Aaron Belz (Persea, 2010)
  102. Men in the Off Hours – Anne Carson (Knopf, 2000)
  103. Stay, Illusion – Lucie Brock-Broido (Knopf, 2015)
  104. The Principles of Uncertainty – Maira Kalman (Penguin, 2007)
  105. Twenty Questions – J.D. McClatchy (Columbia University Press, 1998)
  106. The Animal Too Big To Kill – Shane McCrae (Persea, 2015)**
  107. Steering the Craft – Ursula K. LeGuin (Mariner, 2015)
  108. Presentation Piece – Marilyn Hacker (Viking, 1969)
  109. The Secret Life of Objects – Dawn Raffel (Jaded Ibis, 2012)
  110. Immigrants in Our Own Land – Jimmy Santiago Baca (Louisiana, 1979)
  111. Illocality – Joseph Massey (Wave, 2015)
  112. My Mother’s Body – Marge Piercy (Knopf, 1985)
  113. Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl – Carrie Brownstein (Riverhead, 2015)


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