Diana Arterian’s July To-Read Pile

written by Diana Arterian July 1, 2016

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Ok so this is still a crazy pile but considering a. I came at that June pile late and b. the amount of submissions I read in June, I feel like I made serious progress. Growing worry: the thicker books I neglect to pick up because of the time commitment.

Top to bottom, left to right:

King Kong Theory, Virginie Despentes
New and Selected Poems & Translations, Ezra Pound
Style, Dolores Dorantes (trans. Jen Hofer)
Extracting the Stone of Madness, Alejandra Pizarnik (trans. Yvette Siegert)
A Whaling Captain’s Life, Henry Acton
Collected Poems, H.D.
Bugle, Tod Marshall
Phantom Hour, James Meetze
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant
Inferno, Dante (trans. Mary Jo Bang)
It’s Go Horizontal, Leslie Scalapino
The Language of Inquiry, Lyn Hejinian
Excavation, Wendy C. Ortiz
Hardly War, Don Mee Choi
Olio, Tyehimba Jess
Phantom Pains of Madness, Noelle Kocot
The Narco-Imaginary, Ramsey Scott
The City Keeps: Selected, John Godfrey
A Bestiary, Lily Hoang
Residuum, Martin Rock
Certain Magical Acts, Alice Notley
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward Fitzgerald
Plenty, C orinne Lee
Brief Evidence of Heaven, Nzadi Keita
Unlikely Conditions, Hillary Gravendyk & Cynthia Arrieu-King
Blacks, Gwendolyn Brooks
Notes from No Man’s Land, Eula Biss

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.

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