Sliding in slightly late, but with great company—check out J. Michael Martinez’s list. The author of the recently published and knock-your-sock-off collection from Penguin, Museum of the Americas, J. Michael is an incredible poet and thinker—with an amazing list to peruse.
Interleaves by Lata Mani
Healing with Herbs and Rituals: a Mexican Tradition by Eliseo “Cheo” Torres
The Body of Life: Creating New Pathways for Sensory Awareness and Fluid Movement by Thomas Hanna
The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya by Maya Miller and Karl Taube
Aesthetics After Metaphysics by Miguel de Beistegui
Post-Foundational Political Thought by Oliver Marchart
Habeas Viscus by Alexander G. Weheliye
Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos by Kay Read
Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith
Native Mesoamerican Spirituality ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla
Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo by Erika Buenaflor
Woman Who Glows in the Dark by Elena Avila and Joy Parker
The Fate of Earthly Things by Molly H. Bassett
Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds by Fred Alan Wolf
Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer
The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation ed. Hans Dieter Betz
Sacred Pain by Ariel Glucklich
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
I Have Never Been Able to Sing by Alexis Almeida
Holy Moly Carry Me by Erika Meitner
Pueblo Indian Cookbook ed. Phyllis Hughes
As for myself, I am supremely proud of my progress over the winter break. Many thick spines read (though some thicker ones acquired…)
– NEWIES –
Learning, Andrew Choate
Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly, Joshua Rivkin
Shadowboxing, Joseph Rios
Northwood, Maryse Meijer
If They Come for Us, Fatimah Asghar
Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar (trans. Grace Frick)
Known and Strange Things, Teju Cole
The Blue Notebook, Michael Slosek (no where on the Internet)
Museum of the Americas, J. Michael Martinez (already read, but so there’s a record)
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Confessions, St. Augustine; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; Spit Temple, Cecilia Vicuña ed. Rosa Alcalá; Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, Peter Balakian; Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of Latin@ Writing, ed. Carmen Giménez Smith and John Chávez (in progress); All Roads Lead to Blood, Bonnie Chau; Amity and Prosperity, Eliza Griswold (in progress); Preserving Fire, Philip Lamantia; To Float in the Space Between, Terrance Hayes; God Was Right, Diana Hamilton; Selected Essays of Montaigne, trans. John Florio; Before Lyricism, Eleni Vakalo (trans. Karen Emmerich); The Blue Clerk, Dionne Brand