Claire Meusche + Diana Arterian’s To-Read Piles (March)

written by Diana Arterian March 2, 2020

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…

– NEWIES –
The Poetics, Lucy Ives & Matthew Connors

– OLDIES –

Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault; Animal, Dorothea Lasky;

Diana Arterian

Diana Arterian is the author of the poetry collection Playing Monster :: Seiche (1913 Press, 2017), the chapbooks With Lightness & Darkness and Other Brief Pieces (Essay Press, 2017), Death Centos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and co-editor of Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics (Ricochet, 2016). A Poetry Editor at Noemi Press, she currently lives in Los Angeles. She holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and an MFA from CalArts.

Claire Meusche + Diana Arterian’s To-Read Piles (March)

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