Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, author of the bombshell poetry collection Beast Meridian, shares her epic reading pile this month. Just look at this glorious list. She explains, “most of these I’ve started and haven’t gotten to finish because single mother and a PhD student.”
La Estructura de la Magia I., Lenguaje Y Terapia
Lessons on Expulsion, Erika L. Sánchez
Playing Monster :: Seiche, Diana Arterian (</3)
Scar On/Scar Off, Jennifer Maritza McCauley
These Days of Candy, Manuel Paul López
Bloodline, Joe Jiménez
From Inside the Quietly, Eloisa Amezcua
Bestiary, Donika Kelly
Grace Notes, Rita Dove
Begin with a Failed Body, Natalie J. Graham
Dead Horse, Niina Pollari
The Red Leaves of Night, David St. John
Stereo. Island. Mosaic., Vincent Toro
Red, Chase Berggrun
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
Ordinary Beast, Nicole Sealey
Zero to Three, F. Douglas Brown
Visualizando el Lenguaje: Oaxaca en L.A., ed. Maureen Moore, David Shook
Islands of Decolonial Love, Leanne Simpson
Excavation, Wendy C. Ortiz
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
GeNtry!ficaton: or the scene of the crime, Chaun Webster
Strike a Pose: Memoirs of a Lit Diva Extraordinaire, Tim Jones-Yelvington
Nepantla: An Anthology of Queer Poets of Color, ed. Christopher Soto
No Map of Earth Includes the Stars, Christina Olivares
Natality, E.G. Asher
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, Aja Monet
Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field, eds. Angela Hume, Gillian Osborne
Cenzontle, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Dulce, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
I cleared off my shelf as I noticed it was pulling from the wall (nbd). More room for smaller, lighter books. I made serious headway through some long books that have been staring at me for months (years?).
– NEWIES –
Sick, Porochista Khakpour
Beast Meridian, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (yay)
GeNtry!ficaton: or the scene of the crime, Chaun Webster
Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
The Fat Sonnets, Samantha Zighelboim
Red, Chase Berggrum
Spit Temple, Cecilia Vicuña ed. Rosa Alcalá
Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts 1301-1480, ed. Avedis K. Sanjian
Cuntry, Kristin Sanders
Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Buck Studies, Douglas Kearney; The Blue and Brown Books, Wittgenstein; Confessions, St. Augustine; The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; The School Among the Ruins, Adrienne Rich; Experience in Groups, Geoffrey G. O’Brien; The Four Seasons, Brandon Brown; The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks, Joshua Beckman; SPQR, Mary Beard (in-progress); The Edge of the Sea, Rachel Carson; Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, Peter Balakian; The Soluble Hour, Hillary Gravendyk; They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib; Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang; The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature, Carl Jung