ONE MORE LIST OF PURCHASED POETRY IN 2018

Since my last report on purchased poetry books/publications, I've bought these below -- I recommend them all!

BY ASTROLABES & CONSTELLATIONS by Cristina Querrer

BRAIN FEVER by Kimiko Hahn

OCEANIC by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

PHILOSOPHY by Sacha Archer

ULULATION by Robert Keith

THE BOOK OF RUTH by Amanda Earl

REVELATION by Amanda Earl

LONG RIVER by Yang Jian

THE XENOTEXT, BOOK 1 by Christian Bok

BEAUTY REFRACTED by Carol Moldaw

FIREWORKS by Jules Boykoff

TWO OR THREE THINGS ABOUT DESIRE by Conchitina Cruz

MESSAGE by Fernando Pessoa

OTOLITHS Issue 49, Part 2 (Visual Poetry issue) edited by Mark Young

WILD HORSES by rob mclennan

IT’S STILL WINTER by rob mclennan

PEMINOLOGY by Melinda Luisa de Jesus

CLOUDS RUNNING IN by Kim Shuck

PORT LIGHT: A Hay(na)ku Collection by William Allegrezza

STEP BELOW: Selected Poems 2000-2015 by William Allegrezza

REPORTING LIVE FROM YOU KNOW WHERE by Sheila Murphy

KALI’S BLADE by Michelle Bautista

HIRAETH: TERCETS FROM THE LAST ARCHIPELAGO by Eileen R. Tabios

ONE, TWO, THREE: SELECTED HAY(NA)KU POEMS by Eileen R. Tabios

AMNESIA: Somebody’s Memoir by Eileen R. Tabios

HAY(NA)KU 15 edited by Eileen R. Tabios

HUMANITY edited by Eileen R. Tabios

THE LITERARY SANTA DELIVERS

Another Christmas, another year to struggle with Karl Ove. But thanks Literary Santa. Some surprises here, but I look forward to opening all, and thank their authors for their gifts and in writing them!

Not shown are ASTROLABES & CONSTELLATIONS by Cristina Querrer and THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez.

Happy Reading!

 

REPORTING LIVE ... ON POETRY I BUY!

I haven’t shared recently a list of books I bought by poets. I’m reminded of such because I just ordered a “proof” copy of Sheila E. Murphy’s REPORTING LIVE FROM YOU KNOW WHERE which won the Hay(na)ku Book Prize contest judged by Vince Gotera, Jean Vengua and Mark Young.  So here’s an update on moi Recently Bought Poetry List of books by poets or about poets/poetry.

REPORTING LIVE FROM YOU KNOW WHERE by Sheila Murphy

INDOLENT BOOKS’ Triolet Sponsor—POEMS IN THE AFTERMATH edited by Michael Broder; BELL LAP by Laura Winberry; and __ (publisher Michael Brody’s choice)

PILIPINX RADICAL IMAGINATION READER edited by Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano and Anthony Abulencia Santa Ana

ÉMIGRÉ by Geneva Chao

99: THE NEW MEANING by Walter Abish

WIRE SCULPTURES by Lawrence Upton

JOAN MURRAY: Drafts, Fragments, and Poems, The Complete Poetry edited by Farnoosh Fathi

THREE NOVELS by Elizabeth Robinson

HURRY HOME HONEY by Sawako Nakayasu

ARBOREAL by Barbara Tomash

FIRST AWAKENINGS: THE EARLY POEMS OF LAURA RIDING

CONTINUOUS FRIEZE BORDERING RED by Michelle Naka Pierce

COMING EVENTS (COLLECTED WRITINGS) by Susan Gevirtz

THE STRUGGLERS by Norman Fischer

THE COUNTESS FROM MINNEAPOLIS by Barbara Guest

BROKEN OFF BY THE MUSIC by John Yau

THE AGGRESSIVE WAYS OF THE CASUAL STRANGER by Rosmarie Waldrop

AUTOBIOGRAPHY / ANTI-AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Jennifer Bartlett

MODERN JAPANESE TANKA edited by Makoto Ueda

THE COORDINATES OF DOUBT by Daniel Y. Harris and Rupert M. Loydell

HOUSEWORK by Susan Birchenough

NINTH IOTA by Irene Koronas

TAKES, CUTS: A DAVID LYNCH RENGA by Colin Winborn & Rob Stanton

BECH: A BOOK, novel by John Updike

PORT LIGHT: A HAY(NA)KU COLLECTION by William Allegrezza

HIRAETH: TERCETS FROM THE LAST ARCHIPELAGO by Eileen R. Tabios

THE OPPOSITE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA: Prime’s Anti-Autobiography by Eileen R. Tabios

SUN STIGMATA by Eileen R. Tabios

EVIDENCE OF FETUS DIVERSITY edited by Eileen R. Tabios

A CHILD’S ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY edited by Elizabeth Hauge Sword

TURNINGS: WRITING ON WOMEN’S TRANSFORMATIONS edited by Luisa Igloria

FUTURES TRADING: ANTHOLOGY FIVE edited by Caleb Puckett

ADVENTURES WITH/AT BOOKSTORES

The most minor act of activism can be so exhausting!  Today, while at Copperfield Books bookstore, I noticed a donation display requesting books for COPE Family Center which is described as a place that “empowers parents with the support they need to manage times of crisis and challenging life events so their children can thrive academically, socially, emotionally and physically.”  Great idea, so I bought and donated to their bin A CHILD’S ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY edited by Elizabeth Hauge Sword.

I envisioned some kid or two getting their first exposure to poetry through this anthology, and that pleased me. But why was this “exhausting”? Because in going through the anthology’s table of contents, again there was little representation of poets of color … when it’s probable that much of the Center’s constituency may be kids of color.

When I read through Sword’s introduction, she had mentioned that the idea came up partly because there was a dearth of such books when she had to look for such for her son, then in second grade (if my memory is correct on my skimmed read). I believe her, so I bought the book.

But wouldn’t it be great – and time – if such a book also was crafted with the readers of color in mind? Not to say all of that book’s poets need to be POC—William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow” can certainly speak to readers regardless of their race.  But certainly enough poets of color can be presented, too…  Yes, exhausting to belabor this point.

But does such an anthology exist? I don’t usually pay attention to children’s literature so I don’t know.

AND this incident also is reminding me of when I once judged a teen poetry contest. The prize books were ALL by white males … when a majority of the contestants were Hispanic and female.  I spoke up then, but also resented having to speak up again on what would seem to me to be such an obvious point (as I noted then, “You do know that the country’s Poet Laureate is Hispanic, so it's not like alternative books don't exist?” (Juan Felipe Herrera, at the time, was the Laureate).)

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Partly to release the incidents’ bad taste, do let me share why I was in a bookstore this afternoon. While running errands, I deliberately included a bookstore stop because I’m in the middle of reading Shaun Bythell’s memoir THE DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER. I am wallowing in this book, relishing every word and hoping it’ll never end. It’s a book I would shamelessly replicate one day if I ever did the condition precedent of operating a bookstore. Basically it’s the daily diary of a bookseller, including daily sales. You start reading it long enough and you get into a meditative zone formed by mundane but somehow not tedious details of running a bookshop. I’ll post excerpts below … but in honor of this wonderful book, I decided to give some business to the nearest bookstore. Hopefully, Copperfields also stocks Bythell’s book as it is wonderful!

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I BOUGHT POETRY IN 2017

An outstanding read: Leona Chen's BOOK OF CORD

Purchased poetry publications are not the primary source of my poetry reading. But I did find this list of 134 poetry titles—poetry collections or other genres but authored by a poet—in 2017. I know it's an incomplete list, but here's what I know I bought:

ALL OUR NAMEABLE DAYS: POEMS REVISITED by Gemino H. Abad

WHERE NO WORDS BREAK: NEW POEMS AND PAST by Gemino H. Abad

MY MOTHER TONGUE by Rose Alcala

STEP BELOW: SELECTED POEMS 2000-2015 by William Allegrezza

AFTER IRA AFTER HARVEY by Ivy Alvarez, Mary Kasimor, Agnes Marton, Lisa Melnick and Eileen Tabios

A MANUAL FOR NOTHING by Jessica Anne (Noemi Press Subscription)

BREEZEWAY: NEW POEMS by John Ashbery

QUICK QUESTION: NEW POEMS by John Ashbery

SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEXT MIRROR / HOUSEBOAT DAYS by John Ashbery

NATALITY by EG Asher (Noemi Press Subscription)

THE CLOTHES WE WEAR by Amelia Bande

KALI’S BLADE by Michelle Bautista

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

DEGRETS by Anselm Berrigan

COMPREHENDING MORTALITY by John Bloomberg-Rissman and Eileen R. Tabios

IF THEY HADN’T WORN WHITE HOODS, 8 MILLION WOULD HAVE SHOWN UP IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS by John Bloomberg-Rissman and Eileen R. Tabios

RESIST MUCH OBEY LITTLE edited by Michael Boughn Et Al.

FLOWERING MALL by Brandon Brown

NEAR: A LUMINESCENCE by Melissa Buzzeo

THE DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER by Shaun Bythell

BOOK OF CORD by Leona Chen

PROPOSED ADDITIONS by Donovan Kuhio Colleps

INTO ENGLISH: POEMS, TRANSLATIONS by Martha Collins

JEWELRY by Constance DeJong

AFTERLAND: POEMS by Mai Der Vang

DICTIONAR INTERCULTURAL AL REVISTEI / AN INTERCULTURAL DICTIONARY of Contemporary Literary Horizon, Edited by Daniel Dragomirescu

DISTANT ROAD: SELECTED POEMS OF NGUYEN DUY, Trans. by Kevin Bowen and Nguyen Ba Chung

ATOMS OF MUSES by Timothy Dyke

SUCCUBUS IN MY POCKET by kari edwards

FIELD GUIDE TO AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Melissa Eleftherion

CRUSHED by Trinidad Escobar

A.VASE by Alison Gibb

CLAIMING BREATH by Diane Glancy

CHARM FOR SURVIVORS, SELECTED PAINTED BOOKS & SEQUENCES by Jesse Glass

HOODLUM BIRDS by Eugene Gloria

TWENTY MOMENTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD by John Goodman

ASHES AND SEEDS by Michelle Greenblatt

BRAIN: STORM by Michelle Greenblatt

ANYJAR by Jaimie Gusman

IN MAD LOVE AND WAR by Joy Harjo

GO WITH ME by Jared Hayes

UR-LYEH / AKLOPOLIOS by Paolo Javier, Listening Center (David Mason) & Fel Santos

A LUCENT FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Patricia Spears Jones

SISTA TONGUE by Lisa Linn Kanae

THE PROMETHEUS COLLAGE by Mary Kasimor

EKSTASIS by Kevin Killian and Peter Valente

THE GOSPEL OF REGICIDE by Eunsong Kim (Noemi Press Subscription)

BY DIAMOND HEAD by Hank Lazer

THE HATRED OF POETRY by Ben Lerner

EPHEMERA & ATMOSPHERES by Cheena Marie Lo

THE BEAUTIFUL by Dana Teen Lomax (Black Radish subscription)

THESE DAYS OF CANDY by Manuel Paul Lpez (Noemi Press Subscription)

PLAYING THE FORM by James Maughn

SUPERZEROIC by Nicole Mauro  (Black Radish subscription)

THE EXPERIMENTS [A LEGEND IN PICTURES & WORDS] by Rachel May

SAND OPERA by Philip Metres

A POETRY OF ELEPHANTS edited by Valerie Morton

From DAY by Fred Moten

ON LOST SHEEP by Shiro Murano, Trans. by Goro Takano

GHAZALS 1-59 AND OTHER POEMS by Sheila E. Murphy and Michelle Greenblatt

AFTERGLOW by Eileen Myles

From SOME GIRLS WALK INTO THE COUNTRY THEY ARE FROM Sawako Nakayasu

HOMMAGE A GUY by Bruno Neiva

APPLES & OTHER LANGUAGES by Camilla Nelson

YOU THEN A DANG by Hoa Nguyen

MUTED BLOOD by mónica teresa ortiz (Black Radish Subscription)

MANHATER by Danielle Pafunda

FOR WANT OF WATER AND OTHER POEMS by Sasha Pimentel

LITTLE ANODYNES by Jon Pineda

PENCIL LETTER by Irina Ratushinskaya

TIME PORTAL by Jai Arun Ravine and Greg Wood

FORGET IT by Anastacia Renee

INVOCATION TO DAUGHTERS by Barbara Jane Reyes

SCAFFOLDING by Elena Rivera

LEAVES OF CLASS by Kit Robinson

FINGERPRINTS OF A HUNGER STRIKE by Tony Robles

BROOKLYN ANTEDILUVIAN by Patrick Rosal

STATE OF EXILE, poems by Cristina Peri Rossi, trans. by Marilyn Buck

WOMAN HAND/PEN. by Zohra Saed

THE BOOK OF WHAT REMAINS by Benjamin Alire Saenz

SEARCHING FOR A MUSTARD SEED, memoir by Miriam Sagan

THE YEAR WE TURNED DRAGON by Metta Sama

FOREIGN NATIVE by Lisa Samuels (Black Radish Subscription)

OVER HEAR: SIX TYPES OF POETRY EXPERIMENT IN AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND by Lisa Samuels

TENDER GIRL by Lisa Samuels

LESSONS ON EXPULSION by Erika L. Sanchez

LIKE A SOLID TO A SHADOW by Janice Lobo Sapigao

DAWN by Jordan Scott

ENTANGLED BANK by James Sherry

THE ALPHABET by Ron Silliman

AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE by Patti Smith

PRIMATES FROM AN ARCHIPELAGO by Irene Suico Soriano

MOUTHS by Claire Marie Stancek (Noemi Press Subscription)

THE RESERVOIR by Donna Stonecipher

147 MILLION ORPHANS (MMXI-MML) by Eileen R. Tabios

AMNESIA: Somebody’s Memoir by Eileen R. Tabios

EVIDENCE OF FETUS DIVERSITY edited by Eileen R. Tabios

EXCAVATING THE FILIPINO IN ME by Eileen R. Tabios

IMMIGRANT: HAY(NA)KU & OTHER POEMS by Eileen R. Tabios

LOVE IN A TIME OF BELLIGERENCE by Eileen R. Tabios

MANHATTAN: An Archipelago by Eileen R. Tabios

MARAWI by Eileen Tabios & Albert E. Alejo

MENOPAUSAL HAY(NA)KU FOR P-GRUBBERS edited by Eileen R. Tabios

PUNETA: POLITICAL PILIPINX POETRY edited by Eileen R. Tabios

SILK EGG: COLLECTED NOVELS by Eileen R. Tabios

SUN STIGMATA (Sculpture Poems) by Eileen R. Tabios

TO BE AN EMPIRE IS TO BURN! by Eileen R. Tabios

WHAT SHIVERING MONKS COMPREHEND by The MDR Poetry Generator [ Eileen R. Tabios]

WINTER ON WALL STREET by Eileen R. Tabios

YOUR FATHER IS BALD: SELECTED HAY(NA)KU POEMS by Eileen R. Tabios

#EileenWritesNovel (Otoliths Issue 44, Part 3) by Eileen R. Tabios, editor Mark Young

YOU DA ONE by Jennifer Tamayo (Noemi Press Subscription)

PALM TO PINE by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux

PRE- by Barbara Tomash (Black Radish Subscription)

LIVING PIDGIN: CONTEMPLATIONS ON PIDGIN CULTURE by Lee A. Tonouchi

FRAMEWORK by Andrew Topel

VIRGINIA OR THE MUD-FLAP GIRL by Elizabeth Treadwell

CONSUMES ME by Cat Tyc

LANDSCAPE WITH YELLOW BIRDS by Jose Angel Valente, Trans. by Thomas Christensen

BEAST MERIDIAN by Vanessa Angelica Vallarreal (Noemi Press Subscription)

THE LADIES by Sara Veglahn (Noemi Press Subscription)

CORPOREAL by Jean Vengua

GAP GARDENING: SELECTED POEMS by Rosmarie Waldrop

CRAWLSPACE by Nikki Wallschlaeger

METRO BOOMIN WANT SOME MORE NIGGA by Simone White

SEA FEVER by Steve Willey

ELSA by Veronica Wong

THE WILD CHILDREN OF WILLIAM BLAKE, essays by John Yau

BLACKACRE by Monica Youn

WHERE’S MY RITSPIK by Lynn Young

SOME MORE STRANGE METEORITES by Mark Young

THE LAST LYRIC by Yu Xinqiao, Trans. by Yunte Huang

IF A FILIPINO WRITER READS DON QUIJOTE: THREE LECTURES by Alfred Yuson, Vicente G. Groyon and F. Sionil Jose

[] by Mina Zohal