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My friend and colleague David wrote up a list for me of "50 good books of poetry published this century, and two that are forthcoming." I don't know when I'll get to these, if ever, but I'd like to preserve & publish the suggestions.
52 21st Century Books
Paige Ackerson-Kiely, In No Man’s Land
Cynthia Arrieu-King, Manifest
Beth Bachman, Temper
Quan Barry, Controvertibles
John Beer, The Wasteland and Other Poems
Jaswinder Bolina, Phantom Camera
Joel Brouwer, And So
Suzzane Buffam, The Irrationalist
CM Burroughs, The Vital System
Ashley Capps, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
Arda Collins, It Is Daylight
Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning
Olena Kalytiak Davis, Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities
Michael Dickman, Flies
Lidija Dimkovska, Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers
Russell Edson, The Tormented Mirror
Graham Foust, Necessary Stranger
John Gallaher, The Little Book of Guesses
Hannah Rebecca Gamble, Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast
Stacy Gnall, Heart First Into the Forest
Gabriel Gudding, A Defense of Poetry
Saskia Hamilton, As for Dream
Matthea Harvey, Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
Terrence Hayes, Lighthead
Bob Hicok, Animal Soul
Jay Hopler, Green Squall
Laura Kasischke, Space, In Chains
Suji Kwock Kim, Notes from the Divided Country
Jennifer Kronovet, Awayward
Katherine Larson, Radial Symmetry
Ben Lerner, The Lichtenberg Figures
Sandra Lim, The Wilderness (forthcoming)
Cynthia Lowen, The Cloud that Contained the Lightning (forthcoming)
Sarah Manguso, The Captain Lands in Paradise
Anna Maschovakis, You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake
Malena Morling, Astoria
Meghan O’Rourke, Halflife
Cecily Parks, Field Folly Snow
Patrick Phillips, Chattahoochee
Kevin Prufer, National Anthem
Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Srikanth Reddy, Voyager
Kay Ryan, The Niagara River
Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar
James Shea, Star In the Eye
Zachary Schomburg, Fjords, Vol. 1
Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga
Richard Siken, Crush
Tracy K. Smith, Life On Mars
Peter Streckfus, The Cuckoo
G.C. Waldrep, Disclamor
Jean Valentine, Little Boat
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As long as I'm listing books to read, here are some award-winners that the PCA just announced--not the whole list, but a trio that I might want to come back to, on leave:
Ray and Pat Browne Award Best Reference/Primary Source Work:
Sianne Ngai
Our Aesthetic Categories: zany, cute, interesting
Harvard University Press 2012
Susan Koppelman Award Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Work in Feminist Studies:
Alma Garcia
Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture
AltaMira Press 2012
John G. Cawelti Award Best Textbook/Primer:
Timothy D. Taylor
The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture
The University of Chicago Press 2012
Wistfully,
E
2 comments:
Why wistful? Because you don't have time to read all these books? Because there isn't (yet) a book about popular romance on the awards list?
And now that I've noticed it, I'm wondering when and why you acquired the quote about "One dull man, dulling and uxorious, / One average mind--with one thought less, each year." Apart from the "uxorious" bit, of which I thoroughly approve, I can't see that any of the rest of it's applicable to you.
:) That's very kind of you, Laura! I do feel a bit...well, "dull" probably isn't the word, but certainly "rusty." For the past few months most of my time and energy has gone into organizational work: emails, conference negotiation, editing, etc. I feel less sharp, as a thinker and writer, than I've been, and would like to change that. When the feeling changes, so will the quote!
The wistfulness is of the "so many books, so little time" variety, yes. Better that, though, than the poet's ennui: "La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres."
More soon!
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