I BUY POETRY!

Speaking of money and poetry, I buy poetry. I'm blessed to receive many complimentary copies and so my annual lists of "Bought Poetry" never reflect my reading habits. But I do want my role as as poet to include supporting others' books by purchasing them, to the extent one has the funds. I believe in putting my money where I wish my eyes to be. Still, I usually disappoint myself when I realize, at year's end, how many poetry books I bought (or did not buy). The list below features the 58 books of poetry or on poets/poetry I purchased in 2013. It's a drop from the prior year's buying record of 83 books. So: I must do better! Meanwhile, here was 2013's purchases:


 58 Books Bought in 2013
FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

A CUP OF SUN: A BOOK OF POEMS by Joan Walsh Anglund

 THE GRAND PIANO: AN EXPERIMENT IN COLLECTIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SAN FRANCISCO 1975-1980, Volumes 1-10, by Rae Armantrout, Steve Benson, Alan Bernheimer, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman and Barrett Watten

POEMS’ PROGRESS by Wendy Barker

DARED AND DONE: THE MARRIAGE OF ELIZABETH BARRETT AND ROBERT BROWNING, biography by Julia Markus

 UNPROTECTED TEXTS (SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006) by Tom Beckett

 I’LL DROWN MY BOOK: CONCEPTUAL WRITING BY WOMEN, Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place CAN IT, memoir by Edmund Berrigan 

HELLO, THE ROSES by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

 BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer

 SONGS OF INNOCENCE (color facsimile of the First Edition with 31 Color Plates) by William Blake

FLUX, CLOTH & FROTH, Vol. 1 (text) by John Bloomberg-Rissman

 FLUX, CLOTH & FROTH, Vol. 2 (notes to poems) by John Bloomberg-Rissman

 ALL IS FORGOTTEN, NOTHING IS LOST, novel re poets and ars poetica by Lan Samantha Chang

THE FADING SMILE: POETS IN BOSTON FROM ROBERT LOWELL TO SYLVIA PLATH by Peter Davison

AFTERNOONS WITH EMILY, a portrait of Emily Dickinson by Rose MacMurray

 POEMS AT WAR by Jose Ma. Espino

 SELECTED POEMS OF SALVADOR ESPRIU

 CIRCLES WITH OPEN ENDS by Diana T. Gamalinda

 PEOPLE ARE STRANGE, short stories with much poetry by Eric Gamalinda

 MY FAVORITE WARLORD by Eugene Gloria

 STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN STAGE ARTISTS Edited by Theodore Gonzalves

 WHAT LIGHT CAN DO: ESSAYS ON ART, IMAGINATION, AND THE NATURAL WORLD by Robert Hass

 THE NEXT ANCIENT WORLD by Jennifer Michael Hecht

 SEASONAL WORKS WITH LETTERS ON FIRE by Brenda Hillman

THE ILIAD by Homer (Easton)

THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER (Easton)

 BLOOD SISTER, I AM TO THESE FIELDS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Linda Hussa

I WANT TO MAKE YOU SAFE by Amy King

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF PHILIP LAMANTIA, eds Garrett Gaples, Andrew Joron and Nancy Joyce Peters

REALISM by Tom Mandel

COLLECTED POEMS by Enoch Powell

FILIPINA INSURGENCY: WRITING AGAINST PATRIARCHY IN THE PHILIPPINES by E. San Juan

THE COMEDIES by William Shakespeare (Easton)

THE TRAGEDIES by William Shakespeare

THE HISTORIES by William Shakespeare (Easton)

REVELATOR by Ron Silliman

THE VOICE AT 3:00 A.M. by Charles Simic

MOTHER WAS A TRAGIC GIRL by Sandra Simonds

JUST KIDS, memoir of life with Robert Maplethorpe by Patti Smith

THE RESERVOIR by Donna Stonecipher

THE AWAKENING by Eileen R. Tabios

THE RELATIONAL ELATIONS OF ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen R. Tabios and j/j hastain

A BLADE OF FERNS by Edith Tiempo

MARGINAL ANNOTATIONS by Edith Tiempo

FLYING OVER KANSAS by Rowena Tiempo Torrevilas

STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE by Eva Villanueva

SUSPENSION OF A SECRET IN ABANDONED ROOMS by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

MANY WINTERS: PROSE AND POETRY OF THE PUEBLOS, by Nancy Wood with drawings and paintings by Frank Howell

THE CODICILS by Mark Young