Amina Cain is the author of the incredible novel Indelicacy just out from FSG. She shares her to-read pile with us this month, when hopefully we all are wrapping ourselves in literature a little more closely for comfort:
– NEWIES –
DMZ Colony, Don Mee Choi
Social Poetics, Mark Nowak
Dunce, Mary Ruefle
SoundMachine, Rachel Zucker
Turning into Dwelling, Christopher Gilbert
Anarcha Speaks: A History in Poems, Dominique Christina
The Crying Book, Heather Christle
Children of the Land, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Garments Against Women, Anne Boyer
Letters to a Stranger, Thomas James
Cenzontle, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Indelicacy, Amina Cain (!)
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
God’s Green Earth, Noelle Kocot
The Shore, Chris Nealon
You Can’t Catch Death, Ianthe Brautigan
Not Here, Hieu Minh Nguyen
For the Ride, Alice Notley
When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back, Naja Marie Aidt (trans. Denise Newman)
A Journey Round My Skull, Frigyes Karinthy (trans. Vernon Duckworth Barker)
Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Animal, Dorothea Lasky; The Poetics, Lucy Ives & Matthew Connors