Gabrielle Civil joins me in the book piles for March (“to-read/in the middle of reading pile,” to be specific). Her latest book, Experiments in Joy, is hot off the press. Grab yourself a copy.
The Body Is Not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor
Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking
Style, Dolores Dorantes (trans. Jen Hofer)
Sphinx, Anne Garréta
A Passenger from the West, Nabile Farès (trans. Peter Thompson)
Large Animals, Jess Arndt
Uncollected Texts, Carolee Schneemann
The Riot Inside Me, Wanda Coleman
Kuei, My Friend, Déni Ellis Béchard and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (trans. Déni Ellis Béchard & Howard Scott)
Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, Vickie Vértiz
Identifying the Body, JoAnne McFarland
x/she: stardraped, Laura Vena
Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble
Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice, Krista Thompson
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart, Alice Walker
Split Tooth, Tanya Tagaq
I read some fabulous long books during this past brief month, but so many more to go:
– NEWIES –
Magical Negro, Morgan Parker
Fade into You, Nikki Darling
The Collected Schizophrenias, Esmé Weijun Wang
Hey, Marfa, Jeffrey Yang
Experiments in Joy, Gabrielle Civil (hooray!)
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; Confessions, St. Augustine; God Was Right, Diana Hamilton; Selected Essays of Montaigne, trans. John Florio; Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, Peter Balakian; Known and Strange Things, Teju Cole; Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar (trans. Grace Frick); G, Emmalea Russo; Severance, Ling Ma; Junk, Tommy Pico; A Cruelty Special to Our Species, Emily Jungmin Yoon; The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson; Motherhood, Sheila Heti (in progress)