E.G. Asher, author of the just off the press Natality, shares their to-read pile for the brand spanking new Gregorian calendar year:
Feder: A Scenario by Nathanaël
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (transl. from the French by Kathrine Talbot, transl. from the Spanish by Anthony Kerrigan)
Large Animals by Jess Arndt
House A by Jennifer S. Cheng
Two Augusts In A Row In A Row by Shelley Marlow
Bedouin Hornbook by Nathaniel Mackey
Good Stock Strange Blood by Dawn Lundy Martin
Intimate: An American Family Photo Album by Paisley Rekdal
Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky (transl., introducd, and edited by Kathryn Hellerstein)
Blues Baby: Early Poems by Harryette Mullen
To Light Out by Karen Weiser
When The Ghosts Come Ashore by Jacqui Germain
Mars by Norma Cole
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis
Modigliani Unmasked by Mason Klein
Late in the month, so few books read. With AWP around the corner, my pleasure reading time needs to shoot up—and quick.
– NEWIES –
Natality, E.G. Asher (yay)
Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander
Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Reader’s Block, David Markson
Umbilical Hospital, Vi Khi Nao
The End of Something, Kate Greenstreet
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich
The School Among the Ruins, Adrienne Rich
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; The Prophet, Khalil Gibran; The Blue and Brown Books, Wittgenstein; The Others, Matthew Rohrer; 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; Large Animals, Jess Arndt; Ends of the Earth, Kate Partridge; Confessions, St. Augustine; In the Still of the Night, Dara Wier; Royals, Cedar Sigo; daughterrarium, Sheila McMullin; Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, Merrill Feitell; There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera, Joanne Kyger; Mouth: Eats Color, Sawako Nakayasu with Chika Sagawa; The Reef, Juan Volloro (trans. Yvette Siegert); Not Written Words, Xi Xi (trans. Jennifer Feeley); Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem), Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy (trans. Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue); You, Me, and the Violence, Catherine Taylor; In June The Labyrinth, Cynthia Hogue; Rome, Dorothea Lasky; Ban en Banlieue, Bhanu Kapil; Commodore, Jacqueline Waters; Dead Girls and Other Stories, Emily Geminder