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Amina Cain + Diana Arterian’s To-Read Piles (April)

written by Diana Arterian

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:

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart, Madhur Anand

Rerun Era, Joanna Howard

The Criminal Child, Jean Genet (trans. Charlotte Mandell and Jeffrey Zuckerman)

Margery Kempe, Robert Glück

The Door, Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix)

Cinema of the Present, Lisa Robertson

Music & Literature No. 9

I didn’t attend AWP, but I tried to spend my book money on books through presses and my local bookstore. (Check out BookShop.org if you are wanting to do something akin to this, too, and don’t have a bookstore you know of!) Pretty pleased with this pile, which I’ve read a lot of at this point (including Amina’s amazing novel)!

– 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

April 1, 2020 0 comment

Fiction Poetry Random Small Press

Diana Arterian’s April (¡poetry month!) to-read pile

written by Diana Arterian

AWP made April 1st an impossible post-date. So, here’s my slightly late to-read pile for April. This does not include my AWP haul. That post is forthcoming. So, with new acquisitions in bold:

Collected Poems, H.D.

Sixty Morning Walks, Andy Fitch

Sixty Morning Talks, Andy Fitch

Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction, John Casey

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant

Inferno, Dante (trans. Mary Jo Bang)

King of Pain, Christine Kanownik

It was a terrible cloud at twilight, Alessandra Lynch

Wonderbender, Diane Wald

It’s Go Horizontal, Leslie Scalapino

Blacks, Gwendolyn Brooks

The Language of Inquiry, Lyn Hejinian

Funny how some books have shifted around even though I haven’t been able to read them. Mostly because I take them somewhere and return without being able to crack them open.

EDIT/ADDENDUM: The AWP haul:

James Baldwin, obvi

Palace of Subatomic Bliss, Darcie Dennigan

Ford Over, John Pluecker

The Irrationalist, Suzanne Buffam

My Dead, Amy Lawless

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay

Awesome Ugly Duckling Presse green t-shirt with a print of my Death Centos broadside (!!)

40 Watts, C.D. Wright

The Body, Jenny Boully

Sunny Wednesday, Noelle Kocot

Consolation and Mirth, Ish Klein

Theory on Falling into a Reef, Michelle Brittan Rosado

Phantom Hour, James Meetze

Bugle, Tod Marshall

Continuous Frieze Bordering Red, Michelle Naka Pierce

Castles and Islands, Joshua Edwards

I Have Devoted Myself to the Clitoris, Elizabeth Hall

I have my work cut out for me… April is the cruelest/most bountiful month

April 6, 2016 0 comment