Allie Rowbottom, author of the blowup memoir/reportage/family history Jell-O Girls takes my approach in her books this month, with recently read and to-read:
– OLDIES –
And of course my pile. Lots of thick spines, but I’m making my way.
– NEWIES –
x/she: stardraped, Laura Vena
feeld, Jos Charles
The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon
The Mare, Mary Gaitskill
The Ensemble, Aja Gabel
from unincorporated territory: [lukao], Craig Santos Perez
Jell-O Girls: A Family History, Allie Rowbottom (tore through this before the month ended, but so there’s a record)
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Buck Studies, Douglas Kearney; Confessions, St. Augustine; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature, Carl Jung; The Fat Sonnets, Samantha Zighelboim; Red, Chase Berggrum; Spit Temple, Cecilia Vicuña ed. Rosa Alcalá; Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts 1301-1480, ed. Avedis K. Sanjian (in progress); Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson; Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, Peter Balakian; Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje; The Easy Body, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta; I’m So Fine, Khadijah Queen; Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of Latin@ Writing, ed. Carmen Giménez Smith and John Chávez; Sheep Machine, Vi Khi Nao