Khadijah Queen, brilliant thinker and author of the much-anticipated poetry collection Anodyne recently published by Tin House, shares her reading piles with us this month.
The Blue Clerk, Dionne Brand
Finna, Nate Marshall
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness, Therí Alyce Pickens
The Unreality of Memory, Elisa Gabbert
Humanism and Democratic Criticism, Edward Said
The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom
Seeing the Body, Rachel Eliza Griffiths
A Nail the Evening Hangs On, Monica Sok
You Who Enter Here, Erika T. Wurth
Disability Visibility, Alice Wong (ed.)
The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui
Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison C. Rollins
Kith, Divya Victor
Spectra, Ashley Toliver
Personal Science, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
1919, Eve Ewing
Simulacra, Airea D. Matthews
M Archive, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Patient., Bettina Judd
The Malevolent Volume, Justin Phillip Reed
A Mercy, Toni Morrison
The Condition of Secrecy, Inger Christensen
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Grave on the Wall, Brandon Shimoda
My bookstore is getting a recent order together with my copy of Anodyne. Hopefully I’ll have it on my shelf by next month. I continue to procure library books at a pace I cannot meet, as well as other books I long to read. A happy problem.
– NEWIES –
Fairest, Meredith Talusan
The Two Kinds of Decay, Sarah Manguso
The Wounded Storyteller, Arthur W. Frank
The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Defacing the Monument, Susan Briante
Noctuary, Niall Campbell
Madwoman, Shara McCallum
The Hot Garment of Love Is Insecure, Elizabeth Reddin
The Close Chaplet, Laura Riding
One Small Saga, Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Phong Nha, the Making of an American Smile, Tammy Nguyen
The First Books of David Henderson & Mary Korte: A Research, Iris Cushing
Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive, Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill
Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Elyn R. Saks
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Karen Tei Yamashita
Felon, Reginald Dwayne Betts
– OLDIES –
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks; Boy Oh Boy, Zachary Doss; A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley; Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates; Dream of Europe, Audre Lorde; New and Selected Poems, Toi Derricotte; How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones, The Cut-Outs of Matisse, John Elderfield (ed.)
