Flying late and solo this month. Have things gotten…more read? I don’t think so…
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; The Prophet, Khalil Gibran;The Blue and Brown Books, Wittgenstein; The Secret Room, Kazim Ali (in-progress); The Abridged History of Rainfall, Jay Hopler; Of Mongrelitude, Julian Talamantez Brolaski; Names of the Lion, Ibn Khälawayh; What Is Poetry? (Just kidding, I know you know…), Ed. Anselm Berrigan; The Others, Matthew Rohrer; Core Samples from the World, Forrest Gander; The Intended Dictionary, Kate Partridge; Sans, G.L. Ford; What We Saw from This Mountain, Vladimir Aristov; Modern Love, Constance DeJong, *The Protester Has Been Released, Janet Sarbanes; With the River on Our Face, Emmy Pérez; Mouths, Claire Marie Stancek; Pomegranate Eater, Amaranth Borsuk; Scarecrow, Robert Fernandez; Tula, Chris Santiago; Songs from a Mountain, Amanda Nadelberg; So What So That, Marjorie Welish; The Pages of Day and Night, Adonis (trans. Samuel Hazo); The Big Book of Exit Strategies, Jamaal May; The Hermit, Lucy Ives; The Living Method, Sarah Nicholson; The End of Pink, Kathryn Nuernberger; World of Made and Unmade, Jane Mead; There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, Morgan Parker; Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond; *I Liked You Better Before I knew You So Well: Essays, James Allen Hall; *Large Animals, Jess Arndt; *The Boss, Victoria Chang; The Little Book of Life Hacks, Yumi Sakugawa; *The Open Curtain, Brian Evenson; *Genevieves, Henry Hoke; After We All Died, Allison Cobb; *Dear Kathleen: An Occasion of Kathleen Fraser’s 80th Birthday, ed. by Stephen Motika; *Night, Etel Adnan; Ozone Journal, Peter Balakian (in-progress)
* = new book on this beleaguered shelf