While I haven’t begun to read Divya Victor‘s new poetry collection Curb from Nightboat, I cannot wait to start. I’m so thrilled she’s sharing her to-read pile with us this month, and to see some books I know and love—and learn about so many new exciting titles.
– NEWIES –
The Groundhog Forever, Henry Hoke
– OLDIES –
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks; Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (in-progress); 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); After the Stroke, May Sarton; Curb, Divya Victor; All the Rage, Rosamond S. King; Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition, Lisa Fishman; Underworld Lit, Srikanth Reddy; Forgotten Journey, Silvina Ocampo (trans. by Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan); Natural Birth, Toi Derricotte; Sarahland, Sam Cohen; Antonio, Beatriz Bracher (trans. Adam Morris); The Living Method, Sarah Nicholson; Scardanelli, Friederike Mayröcker (trans. Jonathan Larson); Letters to Memory, Karen Tei Yamashita;
Sometimes I Never Suffered, Shane McCrae; Fieldglass, Catherine Pond; Hoarders, Kate Durbin; Giant Moth Perishes, Geoffrey Nutter; A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, Hoa Nguyen; Sho, Douglas Kearney; The Gentle Barbarian, Bohumil Hrabal (trans. Paul Wilson)