Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen gives us a glimpse into her to-read pile! As a fellow Diana poet + scholar, her pile has a special place in my heart. Bless the library. Her memory studies books were in a locker, but scope these out:
Unbearable Splendor, Sun Yung Shin
On Photography, Susan Sontag
Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe
Nox, Anne Carson
And here I am, making my way, page by page…
– NEWIES –
In the Still of the Night, Dara Wier
Royals, Cedar Sigo
daughterrarium, Sheila McMullin
Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, Merrill Feitell
While Standing in Line for Death, CAConrad
There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera, Joanne Kyger
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; The Prophet, Khalil Gibran; The Blue and Brown Books, Wittgenstein; The Others, Matthew Rohrer; Modern Love, Constance DeJong, The Protester Has Been Released, Janet Sarbanes; Pomegranate Eater, Amaranth Borsuk; Scarecrow, Robert Fernandez; Songs from a Mountain, Amanda Nadelberg; So What So That, Marjorie Welish; The Pages of Day and Night, Adonis (trans. Samuel Hazo); The Market Wonders, Susan Briante; The Big Book of Exit Strategies, Jamaal May; The End of Pink, Kathryn Nuernberger; Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond; The Open Curtain, Brian Evenson; I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well: Essays, James Allen Hall; Large Animals, Jess Arndt, Ends of the Earth, Kate Partridge, Confessions, St. Augustine