Not exactly a fresh start for 2017, but not too shabby either. Goals: get through the big books.
Brief Evidence of Heaven, Nzadi Keita
Blacks, Gwendolyn Brooks
The Language of Inquiry, Lyn Hejinian
My Private Property, Mary Ruefle
Building the Barricade, Anna Swirszczynska, tr. Piotr Florczyk
Cities I’ve Never Lived In, Sara Majka
Fuchsia, Mahtem Shifferaw
My Country, Tonight, Josué Guébo (trans. Todd Fredson)
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar
*Buck Studies, Douglas Kearney
*To Grieve, Will Daddario
*Spiral Staircase, Hirato Renkichi (trans. Sho Sugita)
Blind Spot,Harold Abramowitz
Hardly War, Don Mee Choi
Calamities, Renee Gladman
*Kill ‘Em and Leave, James McBride
Hundred-Year Wave, Rachel Richardson
In other book shelf news, I built a fourth shelf and now have so much real estate for new titles. 2017, bring it.