We’re rounding out this wild year with the amazing Anthony Cody‘s to-read piles. Anthony is the author of the National Book Award shortlisted Borderland Apocrypha. It is so deserving of the honor, and I hope you add it to your own to-read piles soon. Anthony explains the two stacks: “The standing books are books that I am currently studying and looking into more deeply. Essentially, books that I have read more than once and am going more slowly through to learn/teach from and are more static in their rotation. The stacked books are the current books I am reading through at the moment for the first time and I very often ‘burn through’ as a first read before diving into them further later or immediately after.”
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move, Reece Jones
Ecodeviance, CAConrad
Diwata, Barbara Jane Reyes
Temple of Confessions: Mexican Beasts and Living Santos, Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Roberto Sifuentes
Century of the Wind, Eduardo Galeano
Akrilica, Juan Felipe Herrera (trans.Stephen Kessler, Sesshu Foster, Dolores Bravo, Magaly Fernandez, Juan Felipe Herrera)
Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien, Alan Pelaez Lopez
A Year from Today, Stacy Szymaszek
Alphabet Theater, Meredith Stricker
5 Meters of Poems/Cinco Metros de Poemas, Carlos Oquendo de Amat (trans. Joshua Beckman, Alejandro de Acosta)
Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico, Urayoán Noel
Defacing the Monument, Susan Briante
Breathing: Chaos and Poetry, Franco “Bifo” Berardi
precis, josé felipe alvergue
Of Color: Poets Ways of Making, ed. Amanda Galvan Huynh & Luisa A. Igloria
Corpse Whale, dg nanouk okpik
Grief Sequence, Prageeta Sharma
The Grave on the Wall, Brandon Shimoda
Catrachos, Roy G. Guzmán
Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney
Hull, Xandria Phillips
The Age of Phillis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Year of the Dog, Deborah Paredez
An Incomplete List of Names, Michael Torres
under the aegis of a winged mind, makalani bandele
Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez
Xicancuicatl, Alfred Arteaga
I have realized my shelf is quite literally pulling off the wall. I’ll be out of town for a few months—but taking my stack with me with the hope I’ll dig in during the winter break. I may put it on a desk or something a little more…dependable.
– NEWIES –
Pigeons on the Grass, Wolfgang Koeppen (trans. Michael Hoffman)
The Marathon Poet, Åke Hodell (trans. Fia Backström, ed. Kira Josefsson)
Life in Space, Galina Rymbu (trans. Joan Brooks)
Sonnets, Ulises Carrión
Soviet Texts, Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov (trans. Simon Schuchat, Ainsley Morse)
Being Human Is an Occult Practice, Magdalena Zurawski
Notes on Mother Tongues: Colonialism, Class, and Giving What You Don’t Have, Mirene Arsanios
The End, Aditi Machado
Quartet, Claudia La Rocco
Zero Energy Experimental Pile, Alex Cruse
– OLDIES –
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks; Boy Oh Boy, Zachary Doss; A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley; Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates; Dream of Europe, Audre Lorde; New and Selected Poems, Toi Derricotte; The Two Kinds of Decay, Sarah Manguso; Defacing the Monument, Susan Briante; Phong Nha, the Making of an American Smile, Tammy Nguyen; Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive, Tinashe Mushakavanhu; Guillotine, Eduardo C. Corral; Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From, Sawako Nakayasu; Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer; Two Trees Make a Forest, Jessica J. Lee; Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl, Jeannie Vanasco; The Essential Ruth Stone, ed. Bianca Stone