Susan Briante‘s latest book Defacing the Monument has been flying off the shelves for good reason. She shares her to-read pile with us this month. As she writes, “For research and teaching and love and survival!”
Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit
How to Wash a Heart, Bhanu Kapil
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib
The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib
Are Italians White?: How Race Is Made in American, Jennifer Guglielmo & Salvatore Salerno
Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America, Kevin Mumford
Semiautomatic, Evie Shockley
Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima
Social Poetics, Mark Nowak
SOS—Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader, John Bracey, Sonia Sanchez, & James Smethurst
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde
All that Beauty, Fred Moten
For my part, I keep biting off more than I can chew. Still, not too shabby in terms of titles read over the last month.
– NEWIES –
Rough Song, Blanca Varela (trans. Carlos Lara)
Homie, Danez Smith
Suitor, Joshua Rivkin
Anodyne, Khadijah Queen
All Heathens, Marianne Chan
Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From, Sawako Nakayasu
Borderland Apocrypha, Anthony Cody
Guillotine, Eduardo C. Corral
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
Ordinary Beast, Nicole Sealey
Dear Dorothy: A Homegrown Fairytale, Suzi F. Garcia
– OLDIES –
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks; Boy Oh Boy, Zachary Doss; A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley; Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates; Dream of Europe, Audre Lorde; New and Selected Poems, Toi Derricotte; How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones (in-progress), The Cut-Outs of Matisse, John Elderfield (ed.); The Two Kinds of Decay, Sarah Manguso; The Wounded Storyteller, Arthur W. Frank (in-progress); The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio; Defacing the Monument, Susan Briante; The Hot Garment of Love Is Insecure, Elizabeth Reddin; Phong Nha, the Making of an American Smile, Tammy Nguyen; The First Books of David Henderson & Mary Korte: A Research, Iris Cushing; Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive, Tinashe Mushakavanhu; Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee; The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead; Felon, Reginald Dwayne Betts