Daniel Borzutzky

Really thrilled Truong Tran is sharing his to-read pile with us this November! His collection book of the other: small in comparison is *just* out this month.

Recently Read

Sawako Nakayasu, brilliant poet, translator, and author of the recently published Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (from Wave Books), shares her to-read pile with us this month!

Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, Daniel Borzutzky
Socialist Realism, Trisha Low
The Repetition of Marie, Teresa Carmody
Silverfish, Rone Shavers
The Semblable, Chantal Maillard
Of Forests and of Farms: On Faculty and Failure, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves
Slow Down and Walk: A Conversation, Nadine George-Graves and Okwui Okpokwasili
Letters: The classroom is burning, let’s dream about a School of Improper Education, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective
A Mano / By Hand, Nicole Cecilia Delgado
Invisible Horizon: A Religious Pamphlet, Sibyl Kempson
Electric Sarcasm, Dimitra Ioannou
Underworld Lit, Srikanth Reddy
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Adrienne Maree Brown
Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address, Douglas Robinson
Barbaric Vast & Wild: A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present: Poems for the Millennium, Jerome Rothenberg and John Bloomberg-Rissman

Glad to be pushing farther into spring, and even have a few books of poetry to read. Wish I had gotten more of these beautiful books read last month, but here’s hoping for March.

– NEWIES –
Natural Birth, Toi Derricotte
Forgotten Journey, Silvina Ocampo (trans. by Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan)
There Must Be Happy Endings, Megan Sandberg-Zakian
How to Wash a Heart, Bhanu Kapil
Ellis Island, Georges Perec (trans. Harry Matthews)
Mortal Tales, Sara Nicholson
Further Adventures of My Nose, John Surowiecki
Underworld Lit, Srikanth Reddy
Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition, Lisa Fishman
All the Rage, Rosamond S. King
Curb, Divya Victor
Also a print from Richard Craft’s It Is What It Is: All the Cards Issued to Donald Trump January 2017-January 2021!

– OLDIES  –
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks; Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates; Dream of Europe, Audre Lorde; The Red Parts, Maggie Nelson (re-read); The Two Kinds of Decay, Sarah Manguso (re-read); Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer; Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl, Jeannie Vanasco; Pigeons on the Grass, Wolfgang Koeppen (trans. Michael Hoffman); Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam; Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi; Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones); Remembrances, Mir Taqi Mir (trans. C.M. Naim); Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique; The Lost Writings, Franz Kafka (trans. Michael Hoffman); After the Stroke, May Sarton

Poet, translator, editor, and human teddy bear Paul Legault sends his soon-to-be-read volumes in this lovely still-life (with fern and Pinche Trump buttons).

El libro de Frank, CAConrad (trans. Jacob Steinberg); Pájaro del trueno, Dorothea Lasky (trans. Valeria Meiller); Cœur de lion, Ariana Reines (trans.Cecilia Pavón); Buck Studies, Douglas Kearney; So Sad Today, Melissa Broder; The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon (trans. Constance Farrington); Manly Health and Training—To Teach the Science of a Sacred and Beautiful Body, Walt Whitman; The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen; Difficult Women, Roxane Gay; Empty Chairs, Liu Xia; By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of Malcolm X…, Spike Lee; S O S: Poems 1961-2013, Amiri Baraka; Interlock, Patricia Lowe; The White Review, No. 19; Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics, eds. TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson.

Onto this happy mess. I take the ray of light on the right as a sign from the powers I’m doing good things with my shelf.  The stars denote new titles. Yup, yup give me all the books.

Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; The Blue and Brown Books, Wittgenstein; The Prophet, Khalil Gibran;  The Abridged History of Rainfall, Jay Hopler; The Secret Room, Kazim Ali (in-progress); 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; *Testify, Douglas Manuel; *The Intended Dictionary, Kate Partridge; *Medea, Catherine Theis; *Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Sarah Manguso, My Private Property, Mary Ruefle; *Swallow the Fish, Gabrielle Civil; *Sans, G.L. Ford; *What We Saw from This Mountain, Vladimir Aristov; *Modern Love, Constance DeJong, *With the River on Our Face, Emmy Pérez; *So What So That, Marjorie Welish; *The Pages of Day and Night, Adonis (trans. Samuel Hazo); *After We All Died, Allison Cobb; *Blood Memory, Colleen J. McElroy; *The Performance of Becoming Human, Daniel Borzutzky; *The Big Book of Exit Strategies, Jamaal May; *The Hermit, Lucy Ives; *The Living Method, Sarah Nicholson; *They and We Will Get into Trouble for This, Anna Moschovakis; *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; *bone, Yrsa Daley-Ward; *The Little Book of Life Hacks, Yumi Sakugawa; *Tula, Chris Santiago; *Scarecrow, Robert Fernandez; *Songs from a Mountain, Amanda Nadelberg; *Pomegranate Eater, Amaranth Borsuk; *A Manual for Nothing, Jessica Anne; *Uncountry: A Mythology, Yanara Friedland; *Mouths, Claire Marie Stancek; *Bone Confetti, Muriel Leung