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Emerson Whitney + Diana Arterian’s To-Read Piles (July)

written by Diana Arterian

Emerson Whitney, author of the incredible memoir Heaven recently published by McSweeney’s, shares their to-read pile for July. They write from where they’re quarantined: “Those are literally the only books I have right now. It’s bizarre not to have my normal library but that’s what it is. (Even my normal to-read pile is like twice this.)”

Mindful Masculinity Workbook, ed. Rocco Kayiatos
How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay
Paris France, Gertrude Stein
The Groundings with My Brothers, Walter Rodney
Fiebre Tropical, Juliana Delgado Lopera

I’m so thrilled the LA Public Library does curbside pickup on holds now! I have been missing the library terribly during these months of quarantine. I’m proud of all the books I’ve read! And excited to dive into these. My shelf is bursting with books compared to even just a couple days ago.

– NEWIES –

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Jake Skeets
The Door, Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix)
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World, Katheryn Cowles
Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson
Boy Oh Boy, Zachary Doss
The Book of Delights, Ross Gay
The Lonely City, Olivia Laing
Hiroshima, John Hersey
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby (trans. Jeremy Leggatt)
Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit
Oculus, Sally Wen Mao
Lima :: Limón, Natalie Scenters-Zapico
A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley
Soft Science, Franny Choi
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T. Kira Madden
Teaching Shakespeare, Susan Montez
Neighbor, Rachel Levitsky
gowanus atropolis, Julian T. Brolaski
Feast During the Plague, Alexander Pushkin (trans. Matvei Yankelevich)
The World Has Been Empty Since the Postcard, Simon Cutts
Notes Toward a Pamphlet, Sergio Chejfec (trans. Whitney DeVos)
Thirty-Odd Functions of Voice in the Poetry of Alice Notley, Steven Zultanski
Translation is a Mode = Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode, Don Mee Choi
Golem Soveticus: Prigov as Brecht and Warhol in One Persona, Aleksandr Skidan (trans. Kevin M.F. Platt)
Second Factory, Ugly Duckling Presse

– OLDIES – (only 1!)

Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks

July 2, 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