Bonnie Chau, author of the acclaimed recently published short story collection All Roads Lead to Blood (SFWP) and incredible translator, shares her to-read pile with us to close out 2018:
– NEWIES –
The Blue Clerk, Dionne Brand
I Want to Live, Shushanik Kurghinian (trans. Shushan Avagyan)
Lyrical Poetry, Sylva Gaboudigian (trans. Alice Odabashian)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
Armenian Women’s Poetry Through the Ages, ed. and trans. by Diana Der-Hovanessian
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Confessions, St. Augustine; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; Spit Temple, Cecilia Vicuña ed. Rosa Alcalá; Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, Peter Balakian; Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of Latin@ Writing, ed. Carmen Giménez Smith and John Chávez; The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon; from unincorporated territory: [lukao], Craig Santos Perez; All Roads Lead to Blood, Bonnie Chau; The Incendiaries, R.O. Kwon; Be With, Forrest Gander; Dear Angel of Death, Simone White; Amity and Prosperity, Eliza Griswold; I Mean, Kate Colby; A Plate of Chicken, Matthew Rohrer; Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras; Preserving Fire, Philip Lamantia; Xoeteox, Edwin Torres; To Float in the Space Between, Terrance Hayes; Sprawl, Danielle Dutton; The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, Tanella Boni (trans. Todd Fredson); God Was Right, Diana Hamilton; Chronology, Zahra Patterson; Selected Essays of Montaigne, trans. John Florio; The Shutters, Ahmed Bouanani (trans. Emma Ramadan); Before Lyricism, Eleni Vakalo (trans. Karen Emmerich)
