Poet and scholar Jane Wong (author of Overpour) shared her to-read pile, as well as some amazing broadsides! From Jane:
A recent book pile (some that I am currently reading, will have to wait until summer/the end of teaching to read, and some that I just finished reading):
Vi Khi Nao, Umbilical Hospital
Simone John, Testify
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Ely Shipley, Some Animal
Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of
Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life
Shayla Lawson, I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean
Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit
And a few more books that I have on my to-read list:
Duy Doan, We Play a Game
Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man: Stories
Bridget Talone, The Soft Life
June Jordan, We’re On: A June Jordan Reader
Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here
Ed. Christopher Soto, Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color
Ed. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Go Home! anthology
Here’s my pile which, somehow, has maintained insane levels despite my making serious progress on the long books (always a struggle).
– NEWIES –
Registers of Illuminated Villages, Tarfia Faizullah
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
Seamless, Linda Pennisa
Light Wind Light Light, Bin Ramke
Ghost Of, Diana Khoi Nguyen
Overpour, Jane Wong
Reconsolidation, Janice Lee
Soap for the Dogs, Stacey Tran
The Edge of the Sea, Rachel Carson
The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson
SPQR, Mary Beard
The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks, Joshua Beckman
Milk, Dorothea Lasky
The Four Seasons, Brandon Brown
– OLDIES –
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond; Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar; Buck Studies, Douglas Kearney; The Blue and Brown Books, Wittgenstein; Confessions, St. Augustine; The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, Adrienne Rich; The School Among the Ruins, Adrienne Rich; Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, Selah Saterstrom; Barbie Chang, Victoria Chang; Testify, Simone John; Manifest, Cynthia Arrieu-King; Kith, Divya Victor; American Letters: Works on Paper, giovanni singleton; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Bianca Stone; Mean, Myriam Gurba (in progress); Experience in Groups, Geoffrey G. O’Brien; Tela de Sevoya / Omnicloth, Myriam Moscona (trans. Antena aka Jen Hofer and John Pluecker); Body & Glass, Rodney Koeneke; Adagio Ma non Troppo, Ryoxo Sekiguchi (trans. by Lindsay Turner); The Waste Land and Other Poems, John Beer; Suelo Tide Cement, Christina Vega-Westhoff; Some Beheadings, Aditi Machado; Compass Rose, Arthur Sze; Inquisition, Kazim Ali; Orlando, Sandra Simonds; In the Language of My Captor, Shane McCrae