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