Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, author of the fabulous novel The Sleeping World, shares her to-read pile (and fellow book totems!). Gabrielle writes:
My “to read” pile is actually several teetering piles—by the couch, on my desk at work, by the bed, in each purse I own—but here is one smaller, more contained pile
– NEWIES –
The Black Notebooks, Toi Derricotte
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; The Prophet, Khalil Gibran; The Blue and Brown Books, Wittgenstein; So What So That, Marjorie Welish; The Market Wonders, Susan Briante; Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond; The Open Curtain, Brian Evenson; Confessions, St. Augustine; You, Me, and the Violence, Catherine Taylor; Ban en Banlieue, Bhanu Kapil; Dead Girls and Other Stories, Emily Geminder; Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha; The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander; Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, Aisha Sabatini Sloan; Umbilical Hospital, Vi Khi Nao; The End of Something, Kate Greenstreet; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; The School Among the Ruins, Adrienne Rich