LOST & FOUND

CUNY’s “Lost & Found” series from its Poetics Document Initiative is stellar.  I just ordered its "Series V" (the first four titles below).  I recommend checking them out. AND here’s an update on moi Recently Bought Poetry List of books by poets or about poets/poetry, specifically what I bought in the last month:

HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES by Kathy Acker

THE TRAVEL AGENCY IS ON FIRE by William S. Burroughs

LE SOLEIL SOUS LES ARMES [THE SUN UNDER THE WEAPONS] by Jean Senac

LANGSTON HUGHES: POEMS, PHOTOS & NOTEBOOKS FROM TURKESTAN

NEW COLLECTED POEMS by George Oppen, Edited by Michael Davidson

JOHN BROWN’S BODY by Stephen Vincent Benet with illustrations by Fritz Kredel and Warren Chappell

RED EPIC by Joshua Clover

WAR OF THE FOXES by Richard Siken

BLOOD, SPARROWS AND SPARROWS by Eugenia Leigh

REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS by Diane di Prima

THE TAPEWORM FOUNDRY: AND OR THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION by Darren Wershler-Henry

ALL-PURPOSE VISPO by Nico Vassilakis

GUIDE TO THE TOKYO SUBWAY by Halvard Johnson

PERFECT WORDS by Kay Day

MARTIN & MEDITATIONS ON THE SOUTH VALLEY by Jimmy Santiago Baca

MULES OF LOVE, poems by Ellen Bass

WINTER FRUIT, poems by Beclee Newcomer Wilson

ELEMENTAL TANKA, poems by Gary Silva

WISTERIA FROM SEED, poems by Jeremy Cantor

I AM THE BEGGAR OF THE WORLD: LANDAYS FROM CONTEMPORARY AFGHANISTAN, Translated by Eliza Griswold with photographs by Seamus Murphy

DAKOTA, memoir by Kathleen Norris