For April, National Poetry Month, the wonderful poet, educator, and thinker Douglas Manuel—author of his recently published first collection Testify—shares his to-read pile. Check out the amazing set of stocked bookshelves in the background, too.
The Flayed City, Hari Alluri
Witch Wife, Kiki Petrosino
Cane, Jean Toomer (reread)
An Arrangement of Skin, Anna Journey
American Letters: Works on Paper, giovanni singleton
A Turkish Dictionary, Andrew Wessels
As Burning Leaves, Gabriel Jesiolowski
how to get over, t’ai freedom ford (reread)
Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment, Alessandra Lynch (reread)
The Walled Wife, Nicelle Davis
The Collect Poems of Jean Toomer, edited by Robert B. Jones and Margery Toomer Latimer
semiautomatic, Evie Shockley (reread)
– NEWIES –
Inquisition, Kazim Ali
Compass Rose, Arthur Sze
Anthology of Armenian Poetry, translated and edited by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian
Orlando, Sandra Simonds
Torture of Women, Nancy Spero
Some Beheadings, Aditi Machado
Suelo Tide Cement, Christina Vega-Westhoff
White Blight, Athena Farrokzhad
In the Language of My Captor, Shane McCrae
The Waste Land and Other Poems, John Beer
Correct Animal, Rebecca Farivar
Adagio Ma non Troppo, Ryoxo Sekiguchi (trans. by Lindsay Turner)
Body & Glass, Rodney Koeneke
Barbie Chang, Victoria Chang
Testify, Simone John
Manifest, Cynthia Arrieu-King
American Letters: Works on Paper, giovanni singleton
Kith, Divya Victor
The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Bianca Stone
Mean, Myriam Gurba
A Catalogue of the Further Suns, F.J. Bergmann
Indictus, Natalie Eilbert
Open Me, Lisa Locascio
Experience in Groups, Geoffrey G. O’Brien
Tela de Sevoya / Omnicloth, Myriam Moscona (trans. Antena aka Jen Hofer and John Pluecker)
A Monthly Account of the Year Leading up to the End of the World, by Agonistes, Prophet and Fulfiller, Joshua Edwards (nowhere on the internet)
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Buck Studies, Douglas Kearney; The Blue and Brown Books, Wittgenstein; Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond; Confessions, St. Augustine; Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha; The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; The School Among the Ruins, Adrienne Rich; The Black Notebooks, Toi Derricotte; Blank: Essays and Interviews, M. NourbeSe Philip; Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, Selah Saterstrom; The Book of Margery Kempe
