January - February
Who Will Know Us? by Gary Soto
In the North by Nina Bogin
The Great Poetry Bake-Off by Robert Peters
Hunting the Snark: a compendium of new poetic terminology by Robert Peters
Elephant Memories: thirteen years in the life of an elephant family by Cynthia Moss
March
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Graywolf Annual Six: stories from the rest of the world edited by Scott Walker
Nobody Knows My Name: notes of a native son by James Baldwin
Borrowed Time: an AIDS memoir by Paul Monette
Brother Songs: a male anthology of poetry edited by Jim Perlman
New and Selected Things Taking Place by May Swenson
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water by Raymond Carver
The Woman Warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
April
The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
Lighting the Night: revolution in Eastern Europe by William Echikson
More Man Than You’ll Ever Be: gay folklore and acculturation in Middle America by Joseph P. Goodwin
Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell
A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver
Men and Intimacy: personal accounts exploring the dilemmas of modern male sexuality edited by Franklin Abbott
Articles of War: a collection of poetry about World War II edited by Leon Stokesbury
The Morning Star by Kenneth Rexroth
A Man Without Words by Susan Schaller
The Awful Rowing Toward God by Anne Sexton
In the Name of God: the Khomeini decade by Robin Wright
May
Awake by Dorianne Laux
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor
The Politics of History by Howard Zinn
Swimmer in the Secret Sea by William Kotzwinkle
Down in My Heart by William E. Stafford
The Life That Lives on Man by Michael Andrews
Collected Poems by Marianne Moore
These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
I am the Bitter Name by C. K. Williams
With Ignorance by C. K. Williams
Making Peace with the Planet by Barry Commoner
Zero Makes me Hungry: a collection of poems for today edited by Edward Leuders and Primus St John
Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things that Have Been in the Fire by Marvin Bell
The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane by Stephen Crane, edited by Joseph Katz
Cruelty by Ai
June - July
Family Reunion by Paul Zimmer
Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork by Richard Brautigan
Nobody’s Business: the paradoxes of privacy by Alida Brill
Tar by C. K. Williams
Peacemaking among Primates by Frans de Waal
The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano
Selected Poems of Cristina Rossetti by Cristina Rossetti, edited by Marya Zaturenska
Picture Bride by Cathy Song
Stolen Words: forays into the origins and ravages of plagiarism by Thomas Mallon
Indian Givers: how the Indians of the Americas transformed the world by Jack Weatherford
Century of the Wind, vol. 3 of The Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano
Time’s Power: poems, 1985 - 1988 by Adrienne Rich
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: poems, 1978 - 1981 by Adrienne Rich
3000 Years of Black Poetry edited by Alan Lomax and Raoul Abdul
Home Before Morning: the story of an army nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter with Christopher Morgan
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: the wisdom of children’s literature by Jonathan Cott
The Choices We Made: twenty-five women and men speak out about abortion by Angela Bonavoglia
Migraine: understanding a common disorder by Oliver Sacks
Men and Women: together and alone edited by Morty Sklar and Mary Biggs
Gay Fathers by Robert L. Barrett and Bryan E Robinson
New Negro Poets: USA edited by Langston Hughes
August
Under All Silences, Shades of Love edited by Ruth Gordon
Shapinky’s Karma, Boggs’s Bills, and Other True-life Tales by Lawrence Weschler
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me at All edited by John Agard
Good Times by Lucille Clifton
Men on Men 3 edited by George Stambolian
Blues for the Berkeley Inn by Julia Vinograd
The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
California Poets / California Bicentennial Poets Anthology edited by A. D. Winans
Lefties: the origins and consequences of being left-handed by Jack Fincher
Hidden from History: reclaiming the gay and lesbian past by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey Jr.
Turtle, Swan by Mark Doty
Bethlehem in Broad Daylight by Mark Doty
Carrying Over: poems from the Chinese, Urdu, Macedonian, Yiddish, and French African translated and edited by Carolyn Kizer
September
The Peters Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals by Robert Peters
Bad Dog Blues by Bruce Isaacson
love affairs with hardly any people in them by Bruce Isaacson
Velcro Heart by Tim Donnelly
Reminiscing About Next Week by Judy Stedman
Erotic Poems from the Greek Anthology translated and edited by John Gill
Darkness Visible: a memoir of madness by William Styron
American Poetry Confronts the 1990s edited by Peter Gravis and Harry Burrus
Cures: a gay man’s odyssey by Martin Duberman
Through a Window: my thirty years with the chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall
Poems Retrieved by Frank O’Hara
Twin Sons of Different Mirrors: poems in dialogue by Jack Driscoll and Bill Meissner
Copacetic by Yusef Komunyakaa
I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head by Yusef Komunyakaa
Fate by Ai
Everybody Loves You by Ethan Mordden
Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa
Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns
Black Dog, Red Dog by Stephen Dobyns
October
New and Selected Poems by Edward Field
Mexico in Crisis by Judith Adler Hellman
Son of the Male Muse edited by Ian Young
Distance from Loved Ones by James Tate
Body Traffic by Stephen Dobyns
The Blind Man’s Peep Show by Julia Vinograd
Life on the Edge of the Continent: selected poems by Ronald Koertge
November
Wolfwatching by Ted Hughes
A Geography of Poets edited by Edward Field
The Marzipan Pig by Russell Hoban
Eskimo Songs and Stories translated and edited by Edward Field
Collected Poems by Yvor Winters
African Poetry: an anthology of traditional African poems edited by Ulli Beier
There Are Two Lives: poems by children of Japan edited by Richard Lewis, translated by Haruna Kimura
The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche
December
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan
Patron Happiness by Sandra McPherson
Eye Contact Is a Confession by Julia Vinograd
The Book of Folly by Anne Sexton
The Best Poems of 1925 selected by Thomas Moult
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu by Tu Fu, translated by David Hinton
To Bedlam and Partway Back by Anne Sexton
Leap Year Day by Maxine Chernoff
Imagist Poetry edited by Peter Jones
All My Pretty Ones by Anne Sexton
Live or Die by Anne Sexton
Love Poems by Anne Sexton
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir by Richard Hugo
Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas by Sy Montgomery
The Roominghouse Madrigals: early selected poems, 1946 - 1966 by Charles Bukowski
Strange Victory by Sara Teasdale
Personal Dispatches: writers confront AIDS edited by John Preston
Forced March by Miklos Radnoti, translated by Clive Wilmer and George Gomori
To Whom It May Concern: an investigation into the art of elephants by David Gucwa and James Ehmann
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Sunday, July 09, 2017
Titles Read in 1990
January
A Happy Childhood by William Matthews
Flood by William Matthews
New Poetry of the American West edited by Peter Wild and Frank Graziano
Back in the USSR by the Schecter Family
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France
The Past by Galway Kinnell
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
Full of Life by John Fante
The Jackson Phenomenon: the man, the power, the message by Elizabeth O. Colton
Big Moon vol. 2 no. 2, Spring 1976, and vol. 3 no. 2, Fall 1978
God’s Trombones: seven negro sermons in verse by James Weldon Johnson
Fables for Our Times and Famous Poems Illustrated by James Thurber
The Best American Short Stories 1988 edited by Mark Helprin; series editor: Shannon Ravenel
Seeing Voices: a journey into the world of the deaf by Oliver Sacks
February - April
Your Native Land, Your Life by Adrienne Rich
This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years by Robert Bly
At Random: the reminiscences of Bennet Cerf by Bennet Cerf
Shame by Salman Rushdie
The Wonderful O by James Thurber
An Ear to the Ground: an anthology of contemporary American poetry edited by Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero
Letters from Maine by May Sarton
Clandestine in Chile: the adventures of Miguel Littin by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Asa Zatz
Equal Affections by David Leavitt
The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets edited by Dave Smith and David Bottoms
The Tale of Sunlight by Gary Soto
Victorian Fairy Tales: the revolt of the fairies and elves edited by Jack Zipes
Where Sparrows Work Hard by Gary Soto
The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-cultural Literacy edited by Rich Simonson and Scott Walker
So Far From God: a journey to Central America by Patrick Marnham
In Search of Gay America: women and men in a time of change by Neil Miller
Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement by Barry D. Adam
The Best American Poetry 1989 edited by Donald Hall; series editor: David Lehman
Living Up the Street: narrative recollections by Gary Soto
Maps by Nuruddin Farah
One for the Rose by Philip Levine
The Time Traveler by Joyce Carol Oates
Field Guide by Robert Hass
Praise by Robert Hass
May - July
Poems, 1957 - 1967 by James Dickey
The House on Marshland by Louise Gluck
On Literacy: the politics of the word from Homer to the Age of Rock by Robert Pattison
The Ohio Review no. 44, 1989
The Best American Poetry 1988 edited by John Ashbery; series editor David Lehman
The Hudson Review vol. XLII no 4, Winter 1990
The Antioch Review vol. 48 no. 1, Winter 1990
The Dark Houses by Donald Hall
Under 35: the new generation of American poets edited by Nicholas Christopher
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Poets for Life: seventy-six poets respond to AIDS edited by Michael Klein
Ladders to Fire by Anais Nin
Grenada: an eyewitness account of the U.S. invasion and the Caribbean history that provoked it by Hugh O’Shaughnessy
Hot Type: America’s most celebrated writers introduce the next word in contemporary fiction edited by John Miller and the editors of Equator Magazine
Kicking the Leaves by Donald Hall
And Condors Danced by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
Poetspeak: in their work, about their work a selection by Paul B. Janeczko
All Us Come Cross the Water by Lucille Clifton
The House of Arden by E. Nesbit
Modern Brazilian Short Stories edited and translated by William L. Grossman
Human Wishes by Robert Hass
August
Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
The Demon Lover: on the sexuality of terrorism by Robin Morgan
The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Merry-go-round in Oz by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw
Chaos: making a new science by James Gleick
The Crazy Iris and other stories of the atomic aftermath edited by Kenazburo Oe
The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem
Shadow Train by John Ashbery
After the Ball: how America will conquer its fear and hatred of gays in the 90s by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen
Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum
PM / AM: new and selected poems by Linda Pastan
Waiting for My Life by Linda Pastan
Man’s Fate by Andre Malraux, translated by Haakon M. Chevalier
Houseboat Days by John Ashbery
Under Stars by Tess Gallagher
Presentation Piece by Marilyn Hacker
Gathering the Tribes by Carolyn Forche
September
A Time of Bees by Mona Van Duyn
Poems, 1934 - 1969 by David Ignatow
Axe Handles by Gary Snyder
Sonoma Mandala: the Sonoma State University literary annual 1990
The Pushcart Prize: best of the small presses vol. XIII, 1988 - 1989, edited by Bill Henderson
The Quarterly Spring 1990, edited by Gordon Lish
Curiosities by William Matthews
The Hudson Review vol. XLII no 3, Autumn 1989
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry edited by Robert Pack, Sydney Lea, and Jay Parini
Time Passages: collective memory and American popular culture by George Lipsitz
Poets of the Vineyard Anthology 1990, edited by Winnie E. Fitzpatrick
October - December
Whispering to Fool the Wind by Alberto Rios
Out-of-the-body Travel by Stanley Plumly
Dido and Pa by Joan Aiken
The Farther Shore: a natural history of perception by Don Gifford
Willingly by Tess Gallagher
Woman Before an Aquarium by Patricia Hampl
The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich
In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram
Three Journeys: an automythology by Paul Zweig
Rock Hudson: his story by Rock Hudson and Sam Davidson
Vital Signs: contemporary American poetry from the university presses edited by Ronald Wallace
Living the Spirit: a gay American Indian anthology edited by Paul Roscoe
Poets Teaching edited by Alberta T. Turner
A Wave by John Ashbery
Sudden Fiction International: 60 short short stories edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas
Best American Poetry 1990 edited by Jorie Graham; series editor David Lehman
50 Modern American and British Poets, 1920 - 1970 edited by Louis Untermeyer
[corrections made 12 July 2017]
A Happy Childhood by William Matthews
Flood by William Matthews
New Poetry of the American West edited by Peter Wild and Frank Graziano
Back in the USSR by the Schecter Family
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France
The Past by Galway Kinnell
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
Full of Life by John Fante
The Jackson Phenomenon: the man, the power, the message by Elizabeth O. Colton
Big Moon vol. 2 no. 2, Spring 1976, and vol. 3 no. 2, Fall 1978
God’s Trombones: seven negro sermons in verse by James Weldon Johnson
Fables for Our Times and Famous Poems Illustrated by James Thurber
The Best American Short Stories 1988 edited by Mark Helprin; series editor: Shannon Ravenel
Seeing Voices: a journey into the world of the deaf by Oliver Sacks
February - April
Your Native Land, Your Life by Adrienne Rich
This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years by Robert Bly
At Random: the reminiscences of Bennet Cerf by Bennet Cerf
Shame by Salman Rushdie
The Wonderful O by James Thurber
An Ear to the Ground: an anthology of contemporary American poetry edited by Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero
Letters from Maine by May Sarton
Clandestine in Chile: the adventures of Miguel Littin by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Asa Zatz
Equal Affections by David Leavitt
The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets edited by Dave Smith and David Bottoms
The Tale of Sunlight by Gary Soto
Victorian Fairy Tales: the revolt of the fairies and elves edited by Jack Zipes
Where Sparrows Work Hard by Gary Soto
The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-cultural Literacy edited by Rich Simonson and Scott Walker
So Far From God: a journey to Central America by Patrick Marnham
In Search of Gay America: women and men in a time of change by Neil Miller
Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement by Barry D. Adam
The Best American Poetry 1989 edited by Donald Hall; series editor: David Lehman
Living Up the Street: narrative recollections by Gary Soto
Maps by Nuruddin Farah
One for the Rose by Philip Levine
The Time Traveler by Joyce Carol Oates
Field Guide by Robert Hass
Praise by Robert Hass
May - July
Poems, 1957 - 1967 by James Dickey
The House on Marshland by Louise Gluck
On Literacy: the politics of the word from Homer to the Age of Rock by Robert Pattison
The Ohio Review no. 44, 1989
The Best American Poetry 1988 edited by John Ashbery; series editor David Lehman
The Hudson Review vol. XLII no 4, Winter 1990
The Antioch Review vol. 48 no. 1, Winter 1990
The Dark Houses by Donald Hall
Under 35: the new generation of American poets edited by Nicholas Christopher
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Poets for Life: seventy-six poets respond to AIDS edited by Michael Klein
Ladders to Fire by Anais Nin
Grenada: an eyewitness account of the U.S. invasion and the Caribbean history that provoked it by Hugh O’Shaughnessy
Hot Type: America’s most celebrated writers introduce the next word in contemporary fiction edited by John Miller and the editors of Equator Magazine
Kicking the Leaves by Donald Hall
And Condors Danced by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
Poetspeak: in their work, about their work a selection by Paul B. Janeczko
All Us Come Cross the Water by Lucille Clifton
The House of Arden by E. Nesbit
Modern Brazilian Short Stories edited and translated by William L. Grossman
Human Wishes by Robert Hass
August
Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
The Demon Lover: on the sexuality of terrorism by Robin Morgan
The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Merry-go-round in Oz by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw
Chaos: making a new science by James Gleick
The Crazy Iris and other stories of the atomic aftermath edited by Kenazburo Oe
The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem
Shadow Train by John Ashbery
After the Ball: how America will conquer its fear and hatred of gays in the 90s by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen
Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum
PM / AM: new and selected poems by Linda Pastan
Waiting for My Life by Linda Pastan
Man’s Fate by Andre Malraux, translated by Haakon M. Chevalier
Houseboat Days by John Ashbery
Under Stars by Tess Gallagher
Presentation Piece by Marilyn Hacker
Gathering the Tribes by Carolyn Forche
September
A Time of Bees by Mona Van Duyn
Poems, 1934 - 1969 by David Ignatow
Axe Handles by Gary Snyder
Sonoma Mandala: the Sonoma State University literary annual 1990
The Pushcart Prize: best of the small presses vol. XIII, 1988 - 1989, edited by Bill Henderson
The Quarterly Spring 1990, edited by Gordon Lish
Curiosities by William Matthews
The Hudson Review vol. XLII no 3, Autumn 1989
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry edited by Robert Pack, Sydney Lea, and Jay Parini
Time Passages: collective memory and American popular culture by George Lipsitz
Poets of the Vineyard Anthology 1990, edited by Winnie E. Fitzpatrick
October - December
Whispering to Fool the Wind by Alberto Rios
Out-of-the-body Travel by Stanley Plumly
Dido and Pa by Joan Aiken
The Farther Shore: a natural history of perception by Don Gifford
Willingly by Tess Gallagher
Woman Before an Aquarium by Patricia Hampl
The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich
In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram
Three Journeys: an automythology by Paul Zweig
Rock Hudson: his story by Rock Hudson and Sam Davidson
Vital Signs: contemporary American poetry from the university presses edited by Ronald Wallace
Living the Spirit: a gay American Indian anthology edited by Paul Roscoe
Poets Teaching edited by Alberta T. Turner
A Wave by John Ashbery
Sudden Fiction International: 60 short short stories edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas
Best American Poetry 1990 edited by Jorie Graham; series editor David Lehman
50 Modern American and British Poets, 1920 - 1970 edited by Louis Untermeyer
[corrections made 12 July 2017]
Saturday, July 08, 2017
Titles Read in 1989
January
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Green Fuse vol. 9
Sonoma Mandala 1988 the Sonoma State University literary annual
OUT/LOOK: The National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly Fall 1988
X-Factor #39, by Chris Claremont
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Black Mondays: worst decisions of the Supreme Court by Joel D. Joseph
Our Time Has Come: a delegate’s diary of Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign by Lucius J. Barker
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
We Are Your Sons: the legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg by Robert and Michael Meeropol
February
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
An Almost Perfect Person a play by Judith Ross
On Golden Pond a play by Ernest Thompson
Discos and Democracy: China in the throes of reform by Orville Schell
A World Treasury of Oral Poetry edited by Ruth Finnegan
March
Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning by Alice Walker
Necessities by Richard Speakes
Hannah’s Travel by Richard Speakes
The Answering Voice: one hundred love lyrics by women edited by Sara Teasdale
Other Men’s Flowers edited by A. P. Wavell
Invitation to an Inquest by Walter and Miriam Schneir
Bent a play by Martin Sherman
A Walk in the Woods a play by Lee Blessing
April
Breaking the Code a play by Hugh Whitemore
Elquest: Siege at Blue Mountain by Wendy and Richard Pini
Haiku Poetry vol. 1, by James Hackett
New Directions 52 edited by James Laughlin
Loon #10/11. The Japan Issue. edited by D. L. Emblen, Richard Speakes, Richard Welin
The Hand That Cradles the Rock by Rita Mae Brown
May - September
Zuni Fairy Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing
Deaf in America: voices from a culture by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman
Liberty Under Siege: American politics, 1976 - 1988 by Walter Karp
Ground Zero by Andrew Holleran
Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
Nature of Australia by John Vandenbeld
Blue Unicorn October 1988
Antioch Review Winter 1989
Paper Boy by David Huddle
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: new and selected poems by Maxine Kumin
The Acrobat Is Nervous What If They Want Her to Sing: Mendocino County poets-in-the-Schools
Tracks in the Widest Orbit by James H. Montrose
Children of War by Roger Rosenblatt
Where the Spirits Dwell: an odyssey in the jungle of New Guinea by Tobias Schneebaum
Rich Rewards by Alice Adams
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by D. Manus Pinkwater
Where You’ll Find Me stories by Ann Beattie
Another Country by James Baldwin
Forced Entries: the downtown diaries, 1971 - 1973 by Jim Carroll
The Yellow Wind by David Grossman
Guns Don’t Die — People Do by Pete Shields
Daughters of the Country: the women of the fur traders and mountain men by Walter O’Meara
Vampires, Burial, and Death: folklore and reality by Paul Barber
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
First Leaves 1989, the SRJC literary annual, edited by Richard Speakes, Glenn Ingersoll, et al
The Male Muse: a gay anthology edited by Ian Young
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Poetry May, June, and July 1989
Paris Review #112, Fall 1989
Personae non Gratae by Paul Mariah
This Light Will Spread: selected poems, 1960 - 1975 by Paul Mariah
October - December
The Zombie Pit stories by Sam D’Allesandro
The Indispensable Writer’s Guide: how to succesfully build your writing career for maximum financial reward and satisfaction by Scott Edelstein
Love Stories for the Time Being edited by Genie D. Chipps and Bill Henderson
On Bended Knee: the press and the Regan presidency by Mark Hertsgaard
Soul in Exile: lives of a Palestinian revolutionary by Fawav Turki
Nothing to Declare: memoirs of a woman travelling alone by Mary Morris
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford
Poems, 1946 - 1983 by Werner Aspenstrom, translations by Don Emblen
The Stone no. 14, 1985, edited by Rich Jorgensen
Through the Forest: new and selected poems by David Wagoner
Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
Selected Poems by Louis Simpson
The New Yorker October 23, 1989
Compulsive Killers: the story of multiple murder by Elliott Leyton
Selected Poems, 1928 - 1958 by Stanley Kunitz
Headlands Rising by Robert Krieger
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
Poetry September 1989
Green Fuse vol. 11, 1989
Loon #6, June 1976
The Red Book edited by Gerrye Payne
The Music of What Happens: poems that tell stories edited by Paul B. Janeczko
Selected Poems by Mark Strand
The Complete Poems, 1927 - 1979 by Elizabeth Bishop
The Poet’s Story edited by Howard Moss
Sudden Fiction: American short short stories edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas
Antioch Review Summer 1989
The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor Van den Heuvel
Merchants of Death: the American tobacco industry by Larry C. White
[corrections made 12 July 2017]
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Green Fuse vol. 9
Sonoma Mandala 1988 the Sonoma State University literary annual
OUT/LOOK: The National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly Fall 1988
X-Factor #39, by Chris Claremont
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Black Mondays: worst decisions of the Supreme Court by Joel D. Joseph
Our Time Has Come: a delegate’s diary of Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign by Lucius J. Barker
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
We Are Your Sons: the legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg by Robert and Michael Meeropol
February
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
An Almost Perfect Person a play by Judith Ross
On Golden Pond a play by Ernest Thompson
Discos and Democracy: China in the throes of reform by Orville Schell
A World Treasury of Oral Poetry edited by Ruth Finnegan
March
Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning by Alice Walker
Necessities by Richard Speakes
Hannah’s Travel by Richard Speakes
The Answering Voice: one hundred love lyrics by women edited by Sara Teasdale
Other Men’s Flowers edited by A. P. Wavell
Invitation to an Inquest by Walter and Miriam Schneir
Bent a play by Martin Sherman
A Walk in the Woods a play by Lee Blessing
April
Breaking the Code a play by Hugh Whitemore
Elquest: Siege at Blue Mountain by Wendy and Richard Pini
Haiku Poetry vol. 1, by James Hackett
New Directions 52 edited by James Laughlin
Loon #10/11. The Japan Issue. edited by D. L. Emblen, Richard Speakes, Richard Welin
The Hand That Cradles the Rock by Rita Mae Brown
May - September
Zuni Fairy Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing
Deaf in America: voices from a culture by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman
Liberty Under Siege: American politics, 1976 - 1988 by Walter Karp
Ground Zero by Andrew Holleran
Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
Nature of Australia by John Vandenbeld
Blue Unicorn October 1988
Antioch Review Winter 1989
Paper Boy by David Huddle
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: new and selected poems by Maxine Kumin
The Acrobat Is Nervous What If They Want Her to Sing: Mendocino County poets-in-the-Schools
Tracks in the Widest Orbit by James H. Montrose
Children of War by Roger Rosenblatt
Where the Spirits Dwell: an odyssey in the jungle of New Guinea by Tobias Schneebaum
Rich Rewards by Alice Adams
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by D. Manus Pinkwater
Where You’ll Find Me stories by Ann Beattie
Another Country by James Baldwin
Forced Entries: the downtown diaries, 1971 - 1973 by Jim Carroll
The Yellow Wind by David Grossman
Guns Don’t Die — People Do by Pete Shields
Daughters of the Country: the women of the fur traders and mountain men by Walter O’Meara
Vampires, Burial, and Death: folklore and reality by Paul Barber
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
First Leaves 1989, the SRJC literary annual, edited by Richard Speakes, Glenn Ingersoll, et al
The Male Muse: a gay anthology edited by Ian Young
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Poetry May, June, and July 1989
Paris Review #112, Fall 1989
Personae non Gratae by Paul Mariah
This Light Will Spread: selected poems, 1960 - 1975 by Paul Mariah
October - December
The Zombie Pit stories by Sam D’Allesandro
The Indispensable Writer’s Guide: how to succesfully build your writing career for maximum financial reward and satisfaction by Scott Edelstein
Love Stories for the Time Being edited by Genie D. Chipps and Bill Henderson
On Bended Knee: the press and the Regan presidency by Mark Hertsgaard
Soul in Exile: lives of a Palestinian revolutionary by Fawav Turki
Nothing to Declare: memoirs of a woman travelling alone by Mary Morris
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford
Poems, 1946 - 1983 by Werner Aspenstrom, translations by Don Emblen
The Stone no. 14, 1985, edited by Rich Jorgensen
Through the Forest: new and selected poems by David Wagoner
Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
Selected Poems by Louis Simpson
The New Yorker October 23, 1989
Compulsive Killers: the story of multiple murder by Elliott Leyton
Selected Poems, 1928 - 1958 by Stanley Kunitz
Headlands Rising by Robert Krieger
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
Poetry September 1989
Green Fuse vol. 11, 1989
Loon #6, June 1976
The Red Book edited by Gerrye Payne
The Music of What Happens: poems that tell stories edited by Paul B. Janeczko
Selected Poems by Mark Strand
The Complete Poems, 1927 - 1979 by Elizabeth Bishop
The Poet’s Story edited by Howard Moss
Sudden Fiction: American short short stories edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas
Antioch Review Summer 1989
The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor Van den Heuvel
Merchants of Death: the American tobacco industry by Larry C. White
[corrections made 12 July 2017]
Wednesday, July 05, 2017
Titles Read in 2009
January
King Lear by William Shakespeare, a verse translation by Kent Richmond
New European Poets edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer, et al
A Wife for My Son by Ali Ghalem, translated by G. Kazolias
The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry edited by Andrew Schelling
Tilt, Literary Notes: a chapbook anthology edited by Rachel Mallino
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain by Oliver Sacks
Dreams from the Monster Factory: a tale of prison, redemption, and one woman’s fight to restore justice to all by Sunny Schwartz with David Boodell
The Canon: a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science by Natalie Angier
February - April
Amazon Poetry: an anthology of lesbian poetry edited by Joan Larkin and Elly Bulkin
King-Cat Comics and Stories #69, Sept 2008 by John Porcellino
Monkey Girl by Beth Lisick
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Real Stuff by Dennis Eichhorn, et al
The Jam Jar Lifeboat and other novelties exposed by Kay Ryan
Obedience by Joseph Hansen
Alex and Me: how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence — and formed a deep bond in the process by Irene M. Pepperberg
The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning by Joseph Hansen
A Country of Old Men by Joseph Hansen
House by Josh Simmons
Jessica Farm vol. 1 by Josh Simmons
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Deflowered: my life in Pansy Division by Jon Ginoli
All Passion Spent By Vita Sackville-West
Just So You Know #1, by Joey Alison Sayers
May - August
This Too Can Be Yours by Beth Lisick
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
Breathers #0, #1, #2, by Justin Madson
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: a journey into the feline heart by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Lazy Tongue by Terri Carrion
Free Lunch #41, Spring 2009, edited by Ron Offen
The Rest of Life: three novellas by Mary Gordon
My War with Brian by Ted Rall
Twentysomething: poems by Dinyar Godrej, Pat O’Brien, and Tim Neaves edited by Martin Humphries
Ocho #22, an online magazine edited by Miguel Murphy
Best of the Net 2008 judges: Dorianne Laux and Andy Mozina
The Primal Feast: food, sex, foraging, and love by Susan Allport
Omega the Unknown by Jonathan Lethem with Karl Rusnak and Farel Dalrymple
Planet Hulk by Greg Pak, et al
Invincible, vol. 1: Family Matters by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
Invincible, vol. 2: Eight Is Enough by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
Invincible, vol. 3: Perfect Strangers by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 4: Head of the Class by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 5: The Facts of Life by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
We Love Glenda So Much and A Change of Light by Julio Cortazar
Astro City: The Dark Age, vol. 1: Brothers and Other Strangers by Kurt Busiek and Brent Eric Anderson
Astro City: The Dark Age, vol. 2: Brothers in Arms by Kurt Busiek, and Brent Eric Anderson
Invincible, vol. 6: A Different World by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 7: Three’s Company by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 8: My Favorite Martian by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 9: Out of This World by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 10: Who’s the Boss? by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
How Sex Works: why we look, smell, taste, feel, and act the way we do by Sharon Moalem
Born Standing Up: a comic’s life by Steve Martin
Dreams from My Father: a story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama
Invincible, vol. 11: Happy Days by Robert Kirkman and Rya Ottley
Invincible, vol. 12: Still Standing by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome
Invincible, vol. 13: Growing Pains by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 14: The Viltrumite War by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Painter in a Savage Land: the strange saga of the first European artist in North America by Miles Harvey
Pictures and Passions: a history of homosexuality in the visual arts by James M. Saslow
The Moonball by Ursula Moray Williams
Enduring Seeds: Native American agriculture and plant preservation by Gary Paul Nabhan
My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
Scientific American June 2009, v. 300 no. 6
End Times / Tiempos Finales: tripas sangrientas de los demonios vol. 1 by Samuel Hiti
Tunnel Through Time by Lester del Rey
Random Family: love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry edited by Billy Collins
Verses That Hurt: pleasure and pain from the PoemFone poets edited by Jordan and Amy Trachtenberg
All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
All-Star Superman vol. 2, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
Titan Unveiled: Saturn’s mysterious moon explored by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton
The Nine: inside the secret world of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
The Source of Magic by Piers Anthony
Mao Zedong by Jonathan Spence
Luck by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton
Greek Lyric Poetry: a new translation by Sherod Santos
Billi 99 by Sarah E. Byam and Tim Sale
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
$tud by Phil Andros
City Come A Walkin’ by John Shirley
The Unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes — and why by Amanda Ripley
Catching Tigers in Red Weather by Andrew Demcak
Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington-Nugi Garimara
Life with My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh
September
The Plot: the secret story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner
The Unsinkable Bambi Lake: a fairy tale containing the dish on Cockettes, punks, and angels by Bambi Lake with Alvin Orloff
Stardeath by E. C. Tubb
Time and Materials: poems 1997 - 2005 by Robert Hass
Flight vol. 1, edited by Kazu Kibuishi
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Virgin and the Gipsy by D. H. Lawrence
Mindwalking 1937 - 2007 by Edward Mycue
Cahokia: ancient America’s great city on the Mississippi by Timothy R. Pauketat
You Ain’t No Dancer vol. 1, September 2005
Naked Came the Manatee a round robin novel by Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Elmore Leonard, Edna Buchanan, et al
Monkey Food: the complete “I Was Seven in ’75” collection by Ellen Forney
October - December
The American Reader: words that moved a nation Diane Ravitch, editor
Dark Banquet: blood and the curious lives of blood-feeding creatures by William A. Schutt Jr
Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman
Cosmic Engineers by Clifford D. Simak
The Boys and Their Baby by Larry Wolff
Everybody into the Pool: true tales by Beth Lisick
Angkor: the hidden glories by Michael Freeman and Roger Warner
Monsters by Ken Dahl
The Good Conscience by Carlos Fuentes
The River’s Tale: a year on the Mekong by Edward A. Gargun
Remembering the Walker and the Wheelchair: poems of grief and healing by Eva M. Schlesinger
The Mooring of Starting Out: the first five books of poetry by John Ashbery
Luv Ya Bunches by Lauren Myracle
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: the collected poetry of Jack Spicer edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
The Hidden Life of Deer: lessons from the natural world by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Preacher, vol. 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 2: Until the End of the World by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 3: Proud Americans by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
City Boy: my life in New York during the 1960s and ‘70s by Edmund White
Preacher, vol. 4: Ancient History by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: observations on not fitting in by Paisley Rekdal
Preacher, vol. 5: Dixie Fried by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 6: War in the Sun by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 7: Salvation by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 8: All Hell’s A-Coming by Garth Ennis and
Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 9: Alamo by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon
Old Shirts and New Skins by Sherman Alexie
Berkeley Poetry Review #39, 2008; Rhae Lynn Barnes, editor-in-chief
A Taste of Daring by Mariana Ruybalid
Daring to Write by Mariana Ruybalid
Dolphin Mysteries: unlocking the secrets of communication by Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff
Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance by Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Bread and Circuses #1 by Andy Hartzell
Too Small Comics by Bobby Madness
I Want Barbie by Katina Douveas
Free Lunch #42, Autumn 2009 edited by Ron Offen
Free Lunch #40, Autumn 2008 edited by Ron Offen
6 X 6 #16, Fall 2008
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Juicy Mother 2: how they met edited by Jennifer Camper
Medatrocity: stories from the Caffe Med a zine edited by Bird
Screaming with Joy: the life of Allen Ginsberg by Graham Caveney
Arkansas: three novellas by David Leavitt
In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian poetry in a new era edited by J. Kates
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino from the writings of Henry David Thoreau
Again: poems 1989 - 2000 by Joanne Kyger
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Zauberlinda the Wise Witch by Eva Katharine Gibson (as an ebook)
In America by Susan Sontag
Four Letter Worlds edited by Eric Stephenson
Gutter Boys by Alvin Orloff
Smiling Bears: a zookeeper explores the behavior and emotional life of bears by Else Poulsen
A History of the Devil by Gerald Messadie, translated by Mare Romano
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Father Goose, His Book verse by L. Frank Baum, pictures by W. W. Denslow
King Lear by William Shakespeare, a verse translation by Kent Richmond
New European Poets edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer, et al
A Wife for My Son by Ali Ghalem, translated by G. Kazolias
The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry edited by Andrew Schelling
Tilt, Literary Notes: a chapbook anthology edited by Rachel Mallino
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain by Oliver Sacks
Dreams from the Monster Factory: a tale of prison, redemption, and one woman’s fight to restore justice to all by Sunny Schwartz with David Boodell
The Canon: a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science by Natalie Angier
February - April
Amazon Poetry: an anthology of lesbian poetry edited by Joan Larkin and Elly Bulkin
King-Cat Comics and Stories #69, Sept 2008 by John Porcellino
Monkey Girl by Beth Lisick
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Real Stuff by Dennis Eichhorn, et al
The Jam Jar Lifeboat and other novelties exposed by Kay Ryan
Obedience by Joseph Hansen
Alex and Me: how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence — and formed a deep bond in the process by Irene M. Pepperberg
The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning by Joseph Hansen
A Country of Old Men by Joseph Hansen
House by Josh Simmons
Jessica Farm vol. 1 by Josh Simmons
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Deflowered: my life in Pansy Division by Jon Ginoli
All Passion Spent By Vita Sackville-West
Just So You Know #1, by Joey Alison Sayers
May - August
This Too Can Be Yours by Beth Lisick
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
Breathers #0, #1, #2, by Justin Madson
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: a journey into the feline heart by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Lazy Tongue by Terri Carrion
Free Lunch #41, Spring 2009, edited by Ron Offen
The Rest of Life: three novellas by Mary Gordon
My War with Brian by Ted Rall
Twentysomething: poems by Dinyar Godrej, Pat O’Brien, and Tim Neaves edited by Martin Humphries
Ocho #22, an online magazine edited by Miguel Murphy
Best of the Net 2008 judges: Dorianne Laux and Andy Mozina
The Primal Feast: food, sex, foraging, and love by Susan Allport
Omega the Unknown by Jonathan Lethem with Karl Rusnak and Farel Dalrymple
Planet Hulk by Greg Pak, et al
Invincible, vol. 1: Family Matters by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
Invincible, vol. 2: Eight Is Enough by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
Invincible, vol. 3: Perfect Strangers by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 4: Head of the Class by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 5: The Facts of Life by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
We Love Glenda So Much and A Change of Light by Julio Cortazar
Astro City: The Dark Age, vol. 1: Brothers and Other Strangers by Kurt Busiek and Brent Eric Anderson
Astro City: The Dark Age, vol. 2: Brothers in Arms by Kurt Busiek, and Brent Eric Anderson
Invincible, vol. 6: A Different World by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 7: Three’s Company by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 8: My Favorite Martian by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 9: Out of This World by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 10: Who’s the Boss? by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
How Sex Works: why we look, smell, taste, feel, and act the way we do by Sharon Moalem
Born Standing Up: a comic’s life by Steve Martin
Dreams from My Father: a story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama
Invincible, vol. 11: Happy Days by Robert Kirkman and Rya Ottley
Invincible, vol. 12: Still Standing by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome
Invincible, vol. 13: Growing Pains by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 14: The Viltrumite War by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Painter in a Savage Land: the strange saga of the first European artist in North America by Miles Harvey
Pictures and Passions: a history of homosexuality in the visual arts by James M. Saslow
The Moonball by Ursula Moray Williams
Enduring Seeds: Native American agriculture and plant preservation by Gary Paul Nabhan
My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
Scientific American June 2009, v. 300 no. 6
End Times / Tiempos Finales: tripas sangrientas de los demonios vol. 1 by Samuel Hiti
Tunnel Through Time by Lester del Rey
Random Family: love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry edited by Billy Collins
Verses That Hurt: pleasure and pain from the PoemFone poets edited by Jordan and Amy Trachtenberg
All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
All-Star Superman vol. 2, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
Titan Unveiled: Saturn’s mysterious moon explored by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton
The Nine: inside the secret world of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
The Source of Magic by Piers Anthony
Mao Zedong by Jonathan Spence
Luck by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton
Greek Lyric Poetry: a new translation by Sherod Santos
Billi 99 by Sarah E. Byam and Tim Sale
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
$tud by Phil Andros
City Come A Walkin’ by John Shirley
The Unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes — and why by Amanda Ripley
Catching Tigers in Red Weather by Andrew Demcak
Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington-Nugi Garimara
Life with My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh
September
The Plot: the secret story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner
The Unsinkable Bambi Lake: a fairy tale containing the dish on Cockettes, punks, and angels by Bambi Lake with Alvin Orloff
Stardeath by E. C. Tubb
Time and Materials: poems 1997 - 2005 by Robert Hass
Flight vol. 1, edited by Kazu Kibuishi
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Virgin and the Gipsy by D. H. Lawrence
Mindwalking 1937 - 2007 by Edward Mycue
Cahokia: ancient America’s great city on the Mississippi by Timothy R. Pauketat
You Ain’t No Dancer vol. 1, September 2005
Naked Came the Manatee a round robin novel by Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Elmore Leonard, Edna Buchanan, et al
Monkey Food: the complete “I Was Seven in ’75” collection by Ellen Forney
October - December
The American Reader: words that moved a nation Diane Ravitch, editor
Dark Banquet: blood and the curious lives of blood-feeding creatures by William A. Schutt Jr
Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman
Cosmic Engineers by Clifford D. Simak
The Boys and Their Baby by Larry Wolff
Everybody into the Pool: true tales by Beth Lisick
Angkor: the hidden glories by Michael Freeman and Roger Warner
Monsters by Ken Dahl
The Good Conscience by Carlos Fuentes
The River’s Tale: a year on the Mekong by Edward A. Gargun
Remembering the Walker and the Wheelchair: poems of grief and healing by Eva M. Schlesinger
The Mooring of Starting Out: the first five books of poetry by John Ashbery
Luv Ya Bunches by Lauren Myracle
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: the collected poetry of Jack Spicer edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
The Hidden Life of Deer: lessons from the natural world by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Preacher, vol. 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 2: Until the End of the World by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 3: Proud Americans by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
City Boy: my life in New York during the 1960s and ‘70s by Edmund White
Preacher, vol. 4: Ancient History by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: observations on not fitting in by Paisley Rekdal
Preacher, vol. 5: Dixie Fried by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 6: War in the Sun by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 7: Salvation by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 8: All Hell’s A-Coming by Garth Ennis and
Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 9: Alamo by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon
Old Shirts and New Skins by Sherman Alexie
Berkeley Poetry Review #39, 2008; Rhae Lynn Barnes, editor-in-chief
A Taste of Daring by Mariana Ruybalid
Daring to Write by Mariana Ruybalid
Dolphin Mysteries: unlocking the secrets of communication by Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff
Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance by Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Bread and Circuses #1 by Andy Hartzell
Too Small Comics by Bobby Madness
I Want Barbie by Katina Douveas
Free Lunch #42, Autumn 2009 edited by Ron Offen
Free Lunch #40, Autumn 2008 edited by Ron Offen
6 X 6 #16, Fall 2008
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Juicy Mother 2: how they met edited by Jennifer Camper
Medatrocity: stories from the Caffe Med a zine edited by Bird
Screaming with Joy: the life of Allen Ginsberg by Graham Caveney
Arkansas: three novellas by David Leavitt
In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian poetry in a new era edited by J. Kates
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino from the writings of Henry David Thoreau
Again: poems 1989 - 2000 by Joanne Kyger
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Zauberlinda the Wise Witch by Eva Katharine Gibson (as an ebook)
In America by Susan Sontag
Four Letter Worlds edited by Eric Stephenson
Gutter Boys by Alvin Orloff
Smiling Bears: a zookeeper explores the behavior and emotional life of bears by Else Poulsen
A History of the Devil by Gerald Messadie, translated by Mare Romano
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Father Goose, His Book verse by L. Frank Baum, pictures by W. W. Denslow
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Titles Read in 2010
January - February
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 3: 1955 - 1956 by Charles M. Schulz
Tamawaca Folks: a summer comedy by L. Frank Baum writing as John Este Cooke
Tokyo Days: three short tales of an American in Japan by Chris Juricich
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 4: 1957 - 1958 by Charles M. Schulz
The Eternal Smile: three stories by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
The Trouble with Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian: the return to Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
Growing Up Absurd: problems of youth in the organized society by Paul Goodman
White By Law: the legal construction of race by Ian F. Haney Lopez
One Teacher in Ten: LGBT educators share their stories edited by Kevin Jennings
Rats: observations on the history and habitat of the city’s most unwanted inhabitants by Robert Sullivan
March
Young Avengers, vol. 2: Family Matters by Alan Heinberg
Taking on the System by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
The Greeks and Greek Love by James Davidson
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
The New Thing, vol. 1: Identity by Jim Higgins
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
April
One Minute Movies by Summer Brenner
A Fine Excess: 50 years of Beloit Poetry Journal
Exit Wounds a graphic novel by Rutu Modan
The Oldest Gay Couple in America by Gean Harwood
Cherry-Blossoms Japanese Haiku, series III. Peter Pauper Press
Crossing Centuries: the new generation in Russian poetry edited by John High
Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Sister and Brother: lesbians and gay men edited by Joan Nestle & John Preston
Outlands and Inlands by Lindy Hough
May
The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley
Beyond Bogota: diary of a drug war journalist in Colombia by Garry Leech
King-Cat Comics #70 by John Porcellino
Man and Microbes: disease and plague in history and modern times by Arno Karlen
Among the Great Apes by Paul Raffaele
In Silence: growing up hearing in a deaf world by Ruth Sidransky
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
June
Blood Strangers by Katherine A. Briccetti
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
The Royal Historian of Oz #1; a comic by Tommy Kovac and Andy Hirsch
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Language for a New Century edited by Chang, Handal, Shankar
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Assembly Required: notes from a deaf gay life by Raymond Luczak
July - August
Newave! the underground mini comix of the 1980s edited by Michael Dowers
A Single Hurt Color by Andrew Demcak
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
American Hunks by David L. Chapman & Brett Josef Grubisic
Almost Human: a journey into the world of baboons by Shirley C. Strum
A Garden of Peonies: Chinese poems in English by Henry H. Hart
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
Ex Machina by Brian Vaughn and Tony Harris
Caminante by John Oliver Simon
Cocktails by D. A. Powell
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Chasing the Sea: lost among the ghosts of empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell
Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover
Just So You Know #2, mini comic by Joey Alison Sayers
September
King-Cat Comics #71 by John Porcellino
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Curvature of Blue by Lucille Lang Day
Cliterally Speaking mini comic by April Thompson, et al
Notes on Conflict mini comic by Susie Cagle
We’ll Never Have Paris Spring 2010, vol. 6
The Frog Prince a comic by Lauren Skinner
Hello, My Name is Mary #1 and #2 by Mary Van Note
Retail Whore #1 and #2 by Amara Rinne
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Cathcart & Klein
Pass the Butterworms: remote journeys oddly rendered by Tim Cahill
The Garden Thrives: twentieth century African American poetry edited by Clarence Major
The Golden Ass by Apuleius, translated by Robert Graves
October - December
Culture Is Our Weapon by Patrick Neate and Damian Platt
Poetry Sept 2010
Berlin, Book Two: City of Smoke by Jason Lutes
Waterland by Graham Swift
From the Closet to the Courtroom by Carlos A. Ball
War Is Boring by David Axe and Matt Bors
Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard
In the Company of Crows and Ravens by Marzluff, Angell
My Alaskan Summer by Corinne Mucna
Imaginary Homework by Theo Ellsworth
The Blue Bear by Lynn Schooler
Sleeper Car by Theo Ellsworth
Flesh Games: a BDSM romp mini comic by Hortaya
Three a mini comics anthology edited by Robert Kirby
Beardfluff by Rembrand Le Compte
The Great Wave of Falling Rock by Josh Shalek
Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
Children of Nuggets booklet accompanying Rhino CD compilation
The Adventures of Unemployed Man by Erich Origen & Gan Golan
Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form by Matthea Harvey
Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
Songs of Jubilee by Sam Cornish
Fool for Love: new gay fiction edited by Lambert & Cochrane
A Round-Heeled Woman by Jane Juska
Unaccompanied Women by Jane Juska
Rising at 5 a.m. by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry edited by J. D. McClatchy
The Light in Ordinary Things edited by Friedman & Miller
This Is Your Country on Drugs by Ryan Grim
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Phantom Kangaroo #2
a collection of poetry & prose & photos a chapbook by Heidi E. Cooper
How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read
Employee of the Year, part I mini comic by Will Scovill & Jen Oaks
Being Dead by Jim Crace
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
Sequin Soul chapbook by Joan Jobe Smith
Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
Ultimate Galactus Trilogy by Warren Ellis, et al
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry edited by Alan Kaufman
Worse Than War by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
This Is Reggae Music booklet to 4 CD set
Sorry We’re Close by J. Tarin Towers
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 3: 1955 - 1956 by Charles M. Schulz
Tamawaca Folks: a summer comedy by L. Frank Baum writing as John Este Cooke
Tokyo Days: three short tales of an American in Japan by Chris Juricich
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 4: 1957 - 1958 by Charles M. Schulz
The Eternal Smile: three stories by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
The Trouble with Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian: the return to Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
Growing Up Absurd: problems of youth in the organized society by Paul Goodman
White By Law: the legal construction of race by Ian F. Haney Lopez
One Teacher in Ten: LGBT educators share their stories edited by Kevin Jennings
Rats: observations on the history and habitat of the city’s most unwanted inhabitants by Robert Sullivan
March
Young Avengers, vol. 2: Family Matters by Alan Heinberg
Taking on the System by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
The Greeks and Greek Love by James Davidson
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
The New Thing, vol. 1: Identity by Jim Higgins
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
April
One Minute Movies by Summer Brenner
A Fine Excess: 50 years of Beloit Poetry Journal
Exit Wounds a graphic novel by Rutu Modan
The Oldest Gay Couple in America by Gean Harwood
Cherry-Blossoms Japanese Haiku, series III. Peter Pauper Press
Crossing Centuries: the new generation in Russian poetry edited by John High
Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Sister and Brother: lesbians and gay men edited by Joan Nestle & John Preston
Outlands and Inlands by Lindy Hough
May
The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley
Beyond Bogota: diary of a drug war journalist in Colombia by Garry Leech
King-Cat Comics #70 by John Porcellino
Man and Microbes: disease and plague in history and modern times by Arno Karlen
Among the Great Apes by Paul Raffaele
In Silence: growing up hearing in a deaf world by Ruth Sidransky
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
June
Blood Strangers by Katherine A. Briccetti
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
The Royal Historian of Oz #1; a comic by Tommy Kovac and Andy Hirsch
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Language for a New Century edited by Chang, Handal, Shankar
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Assembly Required: notes from a deaf gay life by Raymond Luczak
July - August
Newave! the underground mini comix of the 1980s edited by Michael Dowers
A Single Hurt Color by Andrew Demcak
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
American Hunks by David L. Chapman & Brett Josef Grubisic
Almost Human: a journey into the world of baboons by Shirley C. Strum
A Garden of Peonies: Chinese poems in English by Henry H. Hart
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
Ex Machina by Brian Vaughn and Tony Harris
Caminante by John Oliver Simon
Cocktails by D. A. Powell
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Chasing the Sea: lost among the ghosts of empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell
Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover
Just So You Know #2, mini comic by Joey Alison Sayers
September
King-Cat Comics #71 by John Porcellino
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Curvature of Blue by Lucille Lang Day
Cliterally Speaking mini comic by April Thompson, et al
Notes on Conflict mini comic by Susie Cagle
We’ll Never Have Paris Spring 2010, vol. 6
The Frog Prince a comic by Lauren Skinner
Hello, My Name is Mary #1 and #2 by Mary Van Note
Retail Whore #1 and #2 by Amara Rinne
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Cathcart & Klein
Pass the Butterworms: remote journeys oddly rendered by Tim Cahill
The Garden Thrives: twentieth century African American poetry edited by Clarence Major
The Golden Ass by Apuleius, translated by Robert Graves
October - December
Culture Is Our Weapon by Patrick Neate and Damian Platt
Poetry Sept 2010
Berlin, Book Two: City of Smoke by Jason Lutes
Waterland by Graham Swift
From the Closet to the Courtroom by Carlos A. Ball
War Is Boring by David Axe and Matt Bors
Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard
In the Company of Crows and Ravens by Marzluff, Angell
My Alaskan Summer by Corinne Mucna
Imaginary Homework by Theo Ellsworth
The Blue Bear by Lynn Schooler
Sleeper Car by Theo Ellsworth
Flesh Games: a BDSM romp mini comic by Hortaya
Three a mini comics anthology edited by Robert Kirby
Beardfluff by Rembrand Le Compte
The Great Wave of Falling Rock by Josh Shalek
Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
Children of Nuggets booklet accompanying Rhino CD compilation
The Adventures of Unemployed Man by Erich Origen & Gan Golan
Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form by Matthea Harvey
Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
Songs of Jubilee by Sam Cornish
Fool for Love: new gay fiction edited by Lambert & Cochrane
A Round-Heeled Woman by Jane Juska
Unaccompanied Women by Jane Juska
Rising at 5 a.m. by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry edited by J. D. McClatchy
The Light in Ordinary Things edited by Friedman & Miller
This Is Your Country on Drugs by Ryan Grim
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Phantom Kangaroo #2
a collection of poetry & prose & photos a chapbook by Heidi E. Cooper
How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read
Employee of the Year, part I mini comic by Will Scovill & Jen Oaks
Being Dead by Jim Crace
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
Sequin Soul chapbook by Joan Jobe Smith
Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
Ultimate Galactus Trilogy by Warren Ellis, et al
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry edited by Alan Kaufman
Worse Than War by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
This Is Reggae Music booklet to 4 CD set
Sorry We’re Close by J. Tarin Towers
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Titles Read in 2011
January - April
Scott Pilgrim vol. 1 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Faster Than the Speed of Hope by Donna M. Lane
Two Lines: a journal of translation vol. 13: Masks. 2006
Scott Pilgrim vol. 2 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
The Force of a Feather: the search for a lost story of slavery and freedom by DeEtta Demaratus
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
I am secretly an important man by Steven Jesse Bernstein
Scott Pilgrim vol. 3 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Deep Ska booklet accompanying 4 CD set
When Even the Sky Hurts by Julia Vinograd
Scott Pilgrim vol. 4 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
The Complete Adventures of the Borrowers by Mary Norton
Poor Stainless: a Borrowers story by Mary Norton
Scott Pilgrim vol. 5 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Give Our Regards to the Atom Smashers: writers on comics edited by Sean Howe
The Borrowers Avenged by Mary Norton
Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? by Martin Gardner
Born to Run: a hidden tribe … by Christopher McDougall
Scott Pilgrim vol. 6 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
Lake Huron Winds poetry chapbook by Mel C. Thompson
I Love You Phillip Morris by Steve McVicker
Unpacking the Boxes: a memoir of a life in poetry by Donald Hall
The Beats: a graphic history by Harvey Pekar
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham
Ecco Anthology of International Poetry edited by Ilya Kaminsky
Travels with Lisbeth by Lars Eighner
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Shooting in the Wild by Chris Palmer
The Grandest of Lives: eye to eye with whales by Douglas Chadwick
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
X’ed Out by Charles Burns
May
God’s Man / Madman’s Drum / Wild Pilgrimage by Lynd Ward
The Salt Ecstasies by James L. White, intro by Mark Doty
Patty’s Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America by William Graebner
Ringworld’s Children by Larry Niven
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cometbus #54: In China with Green Day by Aaron Cometbus
Wishbone by Priscilla Lee
In Southern Light: trekking through Zaire and the Amazon by Alex Shoumatoff
June - September
The End of Major Combat Operatons by Nick McDonell
La Perdida by Jessica Abel
The Best American Comics 2007 edited by Chris Ware
Hot Stuff: a brief history of disco by John-Manuel Andriote
The Cave Painters by Gregory Curtis
The Fart Party by Julia Wertz
Far From Home short stories by Walter Tevis
Prelude to a Million Years / Song without Words / Vertigo by Lynd Ward
Godzilla on My Mind by William Tsutsui
Self-Evident Poems by Guy Bennett
Listening to Winter by Molly Fisk
Pluto: sentinel of the outer solar system by Barrie W. Jones
Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz
From Wonderland with Love: Danish comics edited by Steffen Maarup
The Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven
Shirtlifter #4 by Steve MacIsaac
Quarterly Review of Literature: contemporary poetry series IV: Wislawa Szymborska, Jane Hirshfield, et al
Three #2, edited by Robert Kirby
The World Split Open: four centuries of women poets edited by Louise Bernikow
The Unswept Path: contemporary American haiku edited by J. Brandi, D. Maloney
Kundalini: the evolutionary energy in man by Gopi Krishna
The Fart Party vol. 2 by Julia Wertz
The Commitment: love, sex, marriage, and my family by Dan Savage
Congress of the Animals a Frank book by Jim Woodring
Shedding Skins: four Sioux poets edited by Adrian C. Louis
Haiku Moment: an anthology of contemporary North American haiku edited by Bruce Ross
A Queer History of the United States by MIchael Bronski
Aunt Jane’s Nieces by L. Frank Baum
This Is Reggae Music: the story of Jamaica’s music by Lloyd Bradley
Role Models by John Waters
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda
The Complete Annotated Oz Squad, vol. 1 by Steve Ahlquist, et al
The Magic World: American Indian Songs and Poems edited by William Brandon
Tales of Magic Land 2: Seven Underground Kings and The Fiery God of the Marrans by Alexander Volkov, translated by Peter L. Blystone
The Complete Annotated Oz Squad, vol. 2 by Steve Ahlquist, et al
My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy by Robert Bly
Nothing Doing by Cid Corman
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine
Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai by Stan Sakai
The Grave Robber’s Daughter by Richard Sala
Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad by L. Frank Baum (as ebook)
Dolphin Diaries by Denise L. Herzing
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: 50 years of videogames by Harold Goldberg
Weathercraft: a Frank comic by Jim Woodring
Ebb and Flood #1, a mini comic by Brian Herrick
Elf World vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2011, a mini comic anthology edited by F. Vigneault
Astro City: Dark Age, part 2 by Kurt Busiek, et al
Estrus Collection, vol. 2, by Mari Naomi
My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Comic Book Guide to the Mission edited by Lauren Davis
Ordering the Storm: how to put together a book of poems edited by Susan Grimm
Kiss and Tell: a romantic resume, ages 0-22 by Mari Naomi
Wonder Tales edited by Marina Warner
Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine
The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot
Dancing with a Tiger: poems, 1941-1998 by Robert Friend
Tales of Magic Land 3: Yellow Fog and The Mystery fo the Deserted Castle by Alexander Volkov
October - December
Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake
Ogner Stump’s One Thousand Sorrows by A. Goldfarb
I’m Walking as Straight as I Can by Geri Jewell
Beautiful & Pointless: a guide to modern poetry by David Orr
Love Is the Reason: a Cavalcade of Boys story by Tim Fish
Lies Grown Ups Told Me: a comics anthology edited by Nomi Kane, Caitlin M., Jen Vaughn
Sweethearts by Emmett Williams
Luci’s Let Down by Marjee Chmiel & Sandra Lanza
My Dreaming Waking Life: 6 poets, 66 poems by Hofstadter, et al
Book of Boy Trouble, vol. 2: Born to Trouble edited by R. Kirby & D. Kelly
A Controversy of Poets edited by Robert Kelly and Paris Leary
Bonk by Mary Roach
The Duchess Who Wouldn’t Sit Down: an informal history of hospitality by Jesse Browner
Century of Clouds by Bruce Boone
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
Sidewalk Empire and Wish the World parts 1 & 2, mini comics by Eddie H. Ahn
The Bridge Project a comics anthology edited by Matt Leunig
Drunk and Disorderly: selected poems, 1978-2000 by Alan Catlin
Crack Comics #63
The Lights in the Sky Are Stars by Frederic Brown
Falling Sky by Julia Vinograd
Seventh Generation: contemporary native writing edited by Heather Hodgson
The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka
The Believer #73: The Music Issue, July/Aug 2010
The Lampshade: a holocaust detective story by Mark Jacobson
Fox Bunny Funny by Andy Hartzell
Visit Teepee Town: native writings after the detours edited by Diane Glancy and Mark Nowak
Dead, She Said by Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson
Beast Begat Beast mini comic by James the Staton
Notes for My Body Double by Paul Guest
Radiant Silhouette: new & selected work, 1974 - 1988 by John Yau
Reading Comics: how graphic novels work and what they mean by Douglas Wolk
One More Theory about Happiness by Paul Guest
A Lifetime with Lions by George Adamson
Voices within the Ark edited by Schwarz, Rudolf
Auntie Mame: an irreverent escapade by Patrick Dennis
Mute by Raymond Luczak
Epigenetics: the ultimate mystery of inheritance by Richard C. Francis
Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell
How Music Works by John Powell
Thinger Dingers mini comic by J. T. Yost
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Titles Read in 2012
January - March
Marvel Masterworks: X-Men, vol. 4 by Roy Thomas, Werner Roth
Adam, Eve and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels
Belonging: new poetry by Iranians around the world edited by Niloufar Talebi
Born Wild by Tony Fitzjohn
The Ice Cave by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
The Velvet Underground & Nico by Joe Harvard
If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ryan Van Meter
The More Difficult Beauty by Molly Fisk
Timescape by Gregory Benford
Paradiso Diaspora by John Yau
Magician’s Book: a skeptic’s adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller
Close Calls with Nonsense: reading new poetry by Stephen Burt
Hawaiian Cowboys by John Yau
The Wounded Alphabet: poems collected and new by George Hitchcock
The Cento: a collection of collage poems edited by Theresa Malphrus Welford
News of the Universe edited by Robert Bly
Crackpot: the obsessions of John Waters by John Waters
The Brave Never Write Poetry by Daniel Jones
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Unlikely Friendships: 47 remarkable stories from the animal kingdom by Jennifer S. Holland
Farm City: the education of an urban farmer by Novella Carpenter
Practice by Dan Bellm
With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads by Denise Levertov
Ing Grish by John Yau
Windows on the World by Frederic Beigbeder
This Great Unknowing: last poems by Denise Levertov
Music of a Distant Drum by Bernard Lewis
Eda: an anthology of contemporary Turkish poetry edited by Marat Nemet-Nejat
O Taste and See by Denise Levertov
Paying for It: a comic strip memoir about being a john by Chester Brown
The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Waiting to Land: a mostly political memoir, 1985-2008 by Martin Duberman
Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
What You Least Expect: selected poems, 1930-2011 by Rebecca Radner
The Sorrow Dance by Denise Levertov
Full Service: my adventures in Hollywood and the secret sex lives of the stars by Scotty Bowers with Lionel Friedberg
My Heart is That Eternal Rose Tattoo by John Yau
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Sasquatch Stories by Mike Topp
Grampa in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Among African Apes edited by Martha Robbins & C. Boesch
April - August
Debt: the first 5000 years by David Graeber
Debt: the first 5000 years by David Graeber
Drama: an actor’s education by John Lithgow
The Lost King of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge by Paul Guest
Concrete a collection of prints by Andrew Topel
black on white on black a chapbook of vizpo by Andrew Topel
Wisdom Teeth #1, a zine edited by Stephanie Foo & Neil Carman
The Hungry Tiger of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Poems, 1972-1982 by Denise Levertov
My Symptoms by John Yau
The Saint of Letting Small Fish Go by Eliot Khalil Wilson
Oblique Prayers by Denise Levertov
The Gnome King of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Static Element by Natan Zach
Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World by Paul Guest
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: translation and the meaning of everything by David Bellos
The Dolphin in the Mirror by Diana Reiss
Across the Line / Al otro lado: the poetry of Baja California edited by Harry Polkinhorn and Mark Weiss
The Virgin Project 2 edited by K. D. Boze & Stasia Kato
The Rejection Collection: cartoons you never saw and never will see in The New Yorker edited by Matthew Diffee
King of Shadows by Aaron Shurin
Life Itself by Roger Ebert
The Giant Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Better Angel by Richard Meeker
Breathing the Water by Denise Levertov
Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tough Shit: life advice from a fat, lazy slob by Kevin Smith
Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics edited by Paul Gravett
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary by Andrew Westoll
The Passionate Spectator: essays on art & poetry by John Yau
White Trash Debutante by Jennifer Blowdryer
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Shuck by Daniel Allen Cox
The Negritude Poets edited by Ellen Conroy Kennedy
The Big Splat, or how our moon came to be by Dana MacKenzie
City Tree of Concrete and Hope by Luke Warm Water
The Yellow Knight of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Ishi: last of his tribe by Theodora Kroeber
The Science of Yoga: the risks and the rewards by William J. Broad
Big Questions by Anders Nilsen
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl
Where I Was From by Joan Didion
Selected Poems by Tchicaya U Tam’si, translated by Gerald Moore
Iktomi’s Uprising by Luke Warm Water
Dog Years by Mark Doty
Wrong Wrong Wrong a chapbook by Jennifer Blowdryer
Daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba
Sparkle & Blink 3.1, the Quiet Lightning reading for June 8, 2012
Pirates in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Three #3 a comics anthology edited by Robert Kirby
Leo Geo and his miraculous journey through the center of the earth by Jon Chad
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
The Purple Prince of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Voyage to the Whales by Hal Whitehead
Best American Comics 2008 edited by Lynda Barry
Song of the Ape: understanding the language of chimpanzees by Andrew R. Halloran
Evening Train by Denise Levertov
Healing the Split: collected essays by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
Magic Mushrooms and other highs edited by Paul Krassner
Ojo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
My Family and other animals by Gerald Durrell
The Grief Performance by Emily Kendal Frey
September - December
X-Men: Schism 2011, by Jason Aaron
Gas #8, 96/97, edited by Kevin Opstedal
Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman
Further Adventures in Monochrome by John Yau
Cats Are Weird by Jeffrey Brown
Brush Fire by Tchicaya U Tam’si
Below the Belt & other stories by Phil Andros
Sand of the Well by Denise Levertov
Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogas and Gaddam
Torn from the Nest by Clorinda Matto de Turner
Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry edited by Stephen Tapscott
”There was chemistry,” a true story by “David” and Chii Maena
Cold Comfort by Maggie Anderson
Micrograms by Jorge Carrera Andrade
Moomin: the complete comic strip vol. 1, by Tove Jansson
Harper’s April 1997 issue
Huevos verdes con jamon por Dr Seuss, translated by Aida Marcuse
The Long Trip: a prehistory of psychedelia by Paul Devereux
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Plantas que nunca florecen by Ruth Heller, translated by Ivonne Murillo
The Full Spectrum edited by David Levithan and Billy Merrell
Relearning the Alphabet by Denise Levertov
Bill Peet: an autobiography by Bill Peet
The Hidden Europe: what Eastern Europeans can teach us by Francis Tapon
Every Step You Take by Jock Soto
Dropped Names by Frank Langella
Moomin: the complete comic strip vol. 2, by Tove Jansson
Drift: the unmooring of American power by Rachel Maddow
The Madman and the Medusa by Tchicaya U Tam’si
Buttering the Wind by Julia Vinograd
The Double Image by Denise Levertov
The Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Case
Eminent Outlaws by Christopher Bram
Here and Now by Denise Levertov
Class Dismissed: a year in the life of an American high school by Meredith Maran
Kitties: a couscous collective collection Evan Waldinger, et al
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960 by Denise Levertov
The New African Poetry edited by Tanure Ojaide and Tijan M. Sallah
Leaving Yuba City by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Straight: the surprisingly short history of heterosexuality by Hanne Blank
Rain of Iron and Ice: the very real threat of comet and asteroid bombardment by John S. Lewis
Believing Is Seeing: observations on the mysteries of photography by Errol Morris
The Jacob’s Ladder by Denise Levertov
Denslow’s Mother Goose by W. W. Denslow
DNA USA: a genetic portrait of America by Bryan Sykes
Legitimate Dangers: American poets of the new century edited by Michael Dumanis & Cate Marvin
Marbles: mania, depression, Michelangelo and me by Ellen Forney
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Jesse Walker, Oz fan
The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 MGM musical, is ubiquitously known. The original L. Frank Baum novel is famous, too, of course, but it’s not long before you’re losing people if you talk Oz. You knew L. Frank Baum wrote sequels to Wizard, right? 13 of them, fourteen if you count a book of short stories. Then there are the children’s fantasies Baum wrote about lands he placed near Oz and characters from those fairylands would stop by Oz (or vice versa). But Baum wrote for a living and his was not the age when a children’s book author could become a billionaire (J. K. Rowling, you go, girl!), so Baum wrote other stories, like the series Aunt Jane’s Nieces for teens, and he collaborated on work for the stage and screen (though those actually are part of how he lost money!), and one must note Baum lived a full life before he wrote The Wizard of Oz. I’ve read all the Oz books and most the rest of Baum’s writing and have read biographies of Baum and studies of the many versions of Oz. I know a lot about Oz and Baum, so I recognize when someone else does, too.
When I was reading Jesse Walker’s taxonomy of American conspiracy theories, The United States of Paranoia, I was a little surprised when L. Frank Baum showed up being quoted on American Indians. Baum is not going to top anyone’s list of authorities on the topic. Baum started and ran a weekly newspaper in Aberdeen, North Dakota, and in his newspaper Baum tried to calm anti-Indian hysteria, saying, “‘the Indian scare’ was ‘a great injustice’ fanned by ‘sensational newspaper articles.’” Recent Baum commemorations have been protested because Baum later wrote that the situation of the American Indian tribes had become so degraded that the Indians would really be better off dead, so, as Walker says, one “can’t accuse the man of special pleading” in his debunking.
Oz, post-Baum, appears in Jesse Walker’s discussion of post-WWII era paranoia. After L. Frank Baum died, his publisher contracted with another writer to continue the Oz series. Thus the books continued to make money and provide royalties to Baum’s widow and sons. By the 1940s Jack Snow, a longtime fan, had inherited the mantle of Royal Historian of Oz, and got two Oz books published in the official series. Jesse Walker groups Jack Snow’s The Magical Mimics in Oz with other works of post-WWII dread like John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There? which “featured an alien with the ability to adopt the appearance of the people it consumes,” and The Invasion of the Body Snatchers which did pretty much the same thing. “In The Magical Mimics in Oz … supernatural creatures capture Dorothy and the Wizard, adopt their physical forms and take the opportunity to engage in espionage within the Emerald City, searching for the spell that will allow their race of monsters to invade Oz and subject the rest of its people to the same fate.”
L. Frank Baum is listed among famous theosophists in Walker’s chapter on religious conspiracies, and Baum’s Oz-adjacent fantasy, The Sea Fairies, gets quoted to exemplify the metaphor of the octopus as monopolistic capitalism. (The girl, Trot, tells her newfound undersea friends that “‘on the earth, where I live, we call the Stannerd [sic] Oil Company an octopus, an’ the Coal Trust an octopus …’” The octopus Trot is telling this to interrupts her to demand a less insulting metaphor.)
Clearly Jesse Walker has an unusual depth of knowledge of Oz and L. Frank Baum. I wonder if he’s a member of The International Wizard of Oz Club, like me.
source: The United States of Paranoia: a conspiracy theory by Jesse Walker
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Tom’s Ghost
In the development of the MP3 sonic compression format the voice of Suzanne Vega was used as a test for the quality of the sound. Vega warbles “Tom’s Diner” a capella on her album Solitude Standing. If you listened to “Tom’s Diner” and couldn’t tell the difference between an MP3 and a loss-less version, the MP3 must be doing a good job. An MP3 takes up a lot less space in your computer’s memory so if it’s works for you as well as a more memory intensive version, you can use that computer memory for important things, like more MP3s.
I remember Kent found an MP3 version of the original “Tom’s Diner” being presented next to another compression version and a loss-less recording. I listened carefully. But I think I ended up choosing the MP3 as the best-sounding. Maybe it was the fault of the so-so speakers we were using. Maybe I just don’t have a sensitive ear. (You can test yourself at NPR.)
I bought Solitude Standing back in the 80s, mainly because I liked “Luka,” a disturbing story about an abused child set to a sprightly tune. There’s something about unhappiness you can dance to that works for me. The rest of the album was fine, but “Tom’s Diner” didn’t really register until a few years later when DNA released a remix/cover version which not only added extensive backing music to Vega’s unaccompanied voice but recut her vocal so that a passage in which Vega sings da-da-da becomes the chorus and the song ends a few lines short of the original.
DNA was not the only one to essay a new version of the song. Suzanne Vega gave permission for other artists to alter “Tom’s Diner,” and she ended up with enough interesting versions to compile a CD she called Tom’s Album. Besides the DNA take I really like the one that incorporates the theme music from the old sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. The lyrics are rewritten, too. It grabs the backing music from DNA. It is so weirdly magic in its layers of theft.
Kenneth Goldsmith in his book, Wasting Time on the Internet, writes about
a project called “Ghost in the MP3” in which [doctoral music student Ryan Maguire] took all of the audio that was removed from the MP3 compression on “Tom’s Diner” and re-presented it … The overall feeling of Maguire’s piece is indeed ghostly, like listening to the inverse of Vega’s song or perhaps an avant-garde ambient remix of it.
I barely hear “Tom’s Diner” in “Ghost in the MP3.” I suppose I have heard ambient remixes of songs that sound about as little like the song they were, um, inspired by? I like this, though. I think my favorite parts are where you hear Vega’s intakes of breath.
quote source: Wasting Time on the Internet by Kenneth Goldsmith
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