Poet Claire Meusche shares her book pile with us. Her poetry collection, Upend, is fresh out from Noemi Press (which I had the total honor of editing). If you’re into stories of archive, family, immigration, secrets, this book is for you. Anyway, here’s Claire’s list!
Myung Mi Kim, Civil Bound
Stacy Szymaszek, A Year from Today
Fanny Howe, Second Childhood
Sherwin Bitsui, Shapeshift
Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop, Well Well Reality
Maoshing Ni, The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine
Gregory Cajete, Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence
Elizabeth Hoover, The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community
Brandon Shimoda, The Grave on the Wall
Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead
I am in awe, amazed, shocked, at only *one* new book. But AWP, and all the books I paged at the library. Trouble’s brewing for my wee bookshelf…