Flying solo this month, and a little late to boot. Feeling pretty accomplished considering how many titles I got through in January, and excited about the new ones I’ve got my hands on.
– NEWIES –
After the Stroke, May Sarton
The Lost Writings, Franz Kafka (trans. Michael Hoffman)
Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique
Remembrances, Mir Taqi Mir (trans. C.M. Naim)
– OLDIES –
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks; Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates; Dream of Europe, Audre Lorde; The Red Parts and Bluets, 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); The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women, ed. Dick Davis; 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); Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, Nikki Finney (in-progress); Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison (in progress/teaching); Winter in the Blood, James Welch (in progress/teaching)