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Sunday, January 1, 2006

Recommended Poetry & Maybe Some Fiction 2006*



JANUARY/FEBRUARY

The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch (Knopf, 2005)
Petroleum Hat by Drew Gardner (Roof, 2005)
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California, 2005)
Antidotes for an Alibi by Amy King (BlazeVox, 2005)
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel edited by Reb Livingston & Molly Arden (No Tell Motel, 2006)+
Ceci n'est pas Keith. Ceci n'est pas Rosmarie. by Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop (Burning Deck, 2002)
Split Infinities by Rosmarie Waldrop (Singing Horse, 1998)
Lucky Wreck by Ada Limon (Autumn House, 2006)
Murder Ballads by Jake Adam York (Elixir, 2005)
Under Albany by Ron Silliman (Salt 2004)
Gardener of Stars by Carla Harryman (Atelos, 2001) [a novel by a poet]
The Hounds of No by Lara Glenum (Action Books, 2005) [rereading]
Forces of Imagination by Barbara Guest (Kelsey Street Press, 2003)
Series by Robert Grenier (This Press, 1978)

MARCH/APRIL

The Thorn by David Larsen (Faux, 2005)
Record Palace by Susan Wheeler (Graywolf, 2005) [a novel by a poet--this is really damn fantastic]
The Nearness of the Way You Look Tonight by Charles North (Adventures In Poetry, 2000)
After Taxes by Thomas Fink (Marsh Hawk, 2004)
American Tatts by Linh Dinh (Chax Press, 2005) [run, don't walk!]
My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again by Daisy Fried (Univ. of Pittsburgh, 2006)
Siste Viator by Sarah Manguso (Four Way, 2006)

MAY/JUNE/JULY
Some Notes on My Programming by Anselm Berrigan (Edge, 2006)
Blood & Soap by Linh Dinh (Seven Stories, 2004) [short stories]
[one love affair]* by Jenny Boully (Tarpaulin Sky, 2006)
This Connection of Everyone with Lungs by Juliana Spahr (University of California Press, 2005)
A Different Person: A Memoir by James Merrill (Harper/SanFrancisco, 1993)
Herself Defined: The Poet H. D. and Her World by Barbara Guest (Doubleday, 1984)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Vintage, 2006) [w/ library specializing in Japanese poetry as a pivotal location]
White Jazz by James Elroy (Vintage, 2001) [rhythm, disjunctive gaps & verbal sparks galore, plus badass 1950s street lingo]

AUGUST
The Confetti Trees by Barbara Guest (Green Integer, 1999)
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Random House, 2004)
The Green Lake Is Awake by Joseph Ceravolo (Coffee House, 1994)
Villanelles Are Retarded by Shafer Hall & Maureen Thorson (Big Game Books, 2006)
Elapsing Speedway Organism by Bruce Covey (proofs, forthcoming from No Tell Books, 2006)
Applies to Oranges by Maureen Thorson (in manuscript)
His Dark Materials I: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (Knopf, 1996/2002) [tho it be for "young readers;" perhaps I still am one, because I can't wait to read the other two; kicks the crap out of Narnia.]
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone (Vintage, 1992) [some incidental poetry, including some spoof bad verse, in this novel of political intrigue, murder, & mayhem, which is a doozy.]

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
His Dark Materials II: The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (Knopf, 1997/2002)
His Dark Materials III: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Knopf, 2000/2002)
Post~Twyla by Jack Kimball (Blue Lion, 2006)
Blue Studios by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (University of Alabama, 2006)
Organic Furniture Cellar by Jessica Smith (Outside Voices, 2006)
case sensitive by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta, 2006)
The Anger Scale by Katie Degentesh (Combo Books, 2006)
Mainstream Poetry by Michael Magee (BlazeVox, 2006)
Unprotected Texts by Tom Beckett (Meritage Press, 2006)
Good Apocalypse by Anne Boyer (Effing, 2006)

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
The Love Hotel Poems by Shin Yu Pai (Everywhere Godfrey/Press Lorentz, 2006)
The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford (Eos, 1998) [I read a different edition, but this one's more commonly available.]
Musee Mechanique by Rodney Koeneke (Combo, 2006)
Joe Brainard: A Retrospective by Constance M. Lewallen (University of California, 2001)
Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara: A Memoir by Joe LeSueur (FSG, 2004)
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara edited by Donald Allen (California, 1995) [again]
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, 1992)
Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch (Tarcher, 2006)


* Poetry or poetry-related books and maybe also the occasional novel, story collection, or biography, listed in the order read. Excluding anything I edited. All mentions are recommendations. If it sucked or was so-so, why bring it up? Then again, if it's not here, maybe I just haven't gotten around to starting and/or finishing it yet.

+ I happen to be in this, but f*ck it, it's good.

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