January
Snowball Earth: the story of the great global catastrophe that spawned life as we know it by Gabrielle Walker
AKIRA, vols. 1 - 6 by Katsuhiro Otomo, translated by Yoko Umezawa, LInda M. York and Jo Duffy
Forturne and Glory: a true Hollywood comic book story by Brian Michael Bendis
The Wellspring by Sharon Olds
The Best of the Prose Poem: an international journal edited by Peter Johnson
Typewriter #6, edited by David Youngblood
February - April
The Amazing Cynicalman by Matt Feazell
A Lotus of Another Color: an unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian experience edited by Rakesh Ratti
What’s Michael?, vol. 4: Michael’s Mambo by Makoto Kobayashi
2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke
Zapata’s Disciple by Martin Espada
Civil Wars: a battle for gay marriage by David Moats
Going the Other Way: lessons from a life in and out of major-league baseball by Billy Bean with Chris Bull
The Best American Poetry 2003 edited by Yusef Komunyaka; series editor: David Lehman
The Eye of the Elephant: an epic adventure in the African wilderness by Delia and Mark Owens
Revolution of the Word: a new gathering of American avant-garde poetry, 1914 - 1945 edited by Jerome Rothenberg
Shooting the Boh: a woman’s voyage down the wildest river in Borneo by Tracy Johnston
Seven Peaches: the first seven Desert Peach episodes by Donna Barr
The Golem’s Mighty Swing by James Sturm
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Traditional Japanese Poetry: an anthology translated by Steen D. Carter
Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
The Frank Book by Jim Woodring
Top Ten, Book Two by Alan Moore, writer; Gene Ha and Zander Cannon, artists
New Poems 1960 by Witter Bynner
Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book by Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon
The Collected Strangers in Paradise vol. 1, by Terry Moore
May
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
The Clouds Should Know Me By Now edited by Red Pine and Mike O’Connor
The First Time I Met Frank O’Hara by Rick Whitacker
The Tapir’s Morning Bath: mysteries of the tropical rain forest and the scientists who are trying to solve them by Elizabeth Royte
Metamorphosis and other stories by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
June - September
Akiko: the Menace of Alia Rellapor vols. 1 - 3, by Mark Crilley
The Lion’s Grave: dispatches from Afghanistan by Jon Lee Anderson
Terminal City by Dean Motter and Michael Lark
Transmetropolitan: back on the street by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
Episodes by Pierre Delattre
Borrowed Love Poems by John Yau
Twentieth Century Eightball by Daniel Clowes
Life on Another Planet by Will Eisner
The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay poetry of the next wave edited by Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou
Landscape with Rowers: poetry from the Netherlands edited and translated by J. M. Coetzee
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
A Small Killing by Alan Moore and Oscar Zarate
White Death by Rob Morrison and Charlie Adlard
You’ve Just Been Told by Elizabeth Macklin
Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey: Uncle Gabby by Tony Millionaire
Bark by Jack Martin
The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White
House of Java by Mark Murphy
House of Java vol. 2, by Mark Murphy
The Burning Island: a journey through myth and history in volcano country, Hawai’i by Pamela Frierson
The Ages of Gaia: a biography of our living earth by James Lovelock
Make Your Own Damn Movie!: secrets of a renegade director by Lloyd Kaufman with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga
The Lands of Charm and Cruelty: travels in Southeast Asia by Stan Sesser
Here First: autobiographical essays by Native American writers edited by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann
Why Marriage Matters: America, equality, and Gay people’s right to marry by Evan Wolfson
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
From Totems to Hip-Hop: a multi-cultural anthology of poetry across the Americas, 1900 - 2002 edited by Ishmael Reed
October - December
The Incredible Hulk: Return of the Monster, Boiling Point, Banner by Bruce Jones, John Romita Jr, Lee Weeks, Brian Azzarello, Richard Corben
The Interman vol. 1, by Jeff Parker
The Barefoot Serpent by Scott Morse
Mind of the Raven: investigations and adventures with the wolf-birds by Bernd Heinrich
How Real Men Do It: the fourth Leonard and Larry collection by Tim Barela
Elric: the Dreaming City by Roy Thomas and P. Craig Russell
Peanut Butter and Jeremy’s Best Book Ever by James Kochalka
In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
The Liars’ Club: a memoir by Mary Karr
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood
Blankets by Craig Thompson
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Yes, You Are a Revolutionary: plus seven other books by Sparrow
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: the emotional world of farm animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Talking in the Dark: a poetry memoir by Billy Merrell
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
Usagi Yojimbo: book 17: Duel at Kitanoji by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book 18: Travels with Jotaro by Stan Sakai
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Titles Read in 2003
January - February
The Ghost Trio by Linda Bierds
Sightings: the gray whale’s mysterious journey by Brenda Peterson and Linda Hogan
Wild One by Lucille Lang Day
Infinities by Lucille Lang Day
Curbside Boys: the New York years by Robert Kirby
The New American Poetry, 1945 - 1960 edited by Donald Allen
The Best American Poetry 2002 edited by Robert Creeley; series editor, David Lehman
Mammoth: the resurrection of an ice age giant by Richard Stone
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch
Starting Out in the Sixties: selected essays by Aram Saroyan
March - June
Usagi Yojimbo: Book One by Stan Sakai
Isolation and Illusion: collected short stories, 1977 - 1997 by P. Craig Russell
Safe Area Gorazde: the war in Eastern Bosnia, 1992 - 1995 by Joe Sacco
Subway Series by Leela Corman
American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders edited by Eliot Weinberger
Bizarro Comics DC Comics
The Octopus and the Orangutan: more true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity by Eugene Linden
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse edited and translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite
A History of God: the 4000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstong
Nonrequired Reading by Wislawa Szymborska
Johnny Dynamite by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty
Usagi Yojimbo: Book Two by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: Book Three by Stan Sakai
Space Usagi by Stan Sakai
It’s Been a Good Life by Isaac Asimov, edited by Janet Jeppson Asimov
An Underground Life: the memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck with Frank Heibert, translated by Allison Brown
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt by William Nothdurft
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
An Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry edited and translated by Ichiro Kono and Rikutaro Fukuda
Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry edited and translated by Edith Marcombe Shiffert and Yuki Sawa
Chieko’s Sky by Kotaro Takamura, translated by Soichi Furuta
Like Underground Water: the poetry of mid-twentieth century Japan translated by Naoshi Koriyama and Edward Lueders
Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner
Mobius Stripper by Bana Witt
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: the seven deadly sins and the pursuit of happiness in America by Dan Savage
Black Cat Crossing by Richard Sala
Peculia by Richard Sala
Usagi Yojimbo: book four by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book five by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book six by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book seven by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book eight: Shades of Death by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book nine: Daisho by Stan Sakai
Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me by Jaime Manrique
American Splendor Presents: Bob and Harv’s Comics written by Harvey Pekar, art by R. Crumb
Usagi Yojimbo: book ten: The Brink of Life and Death by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book eleven: Seasons by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book twelve: Grasscutter by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book thirteen: Grey Shadows by Stan Sakai
Mountain Home: the wilderness poetry of ancient China selected and translated by David Hinton
Usagi Yojimbo: book fourteen: Demon Mask by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book fifteen: Grasscutter II, Journey to Atsuta Shrina by Stan Sakai
The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Braided Creek: a conversation in poetry by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser
Diminutive Revolutions by Daniel Bouchard
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty
July
Adventure Capitalist: the ultimate investor’s road trip by Jim Rogers
Midlife Queer: autobiography of a decade, 1971 - 1981 by Martin Duberman
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Alec: three piece suit by Eddie Campbell
Age of Reptiles: Tribal Warfare by Ricardo Delgado
Age of Reptiles: The Hunt by Ricardo Delgado
Pages by Aram Saroyan
Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry edited and translated by Graham Dunstan Martin
Mid-Century French Poets by Wallace Fowlie
Modern French Poetry edited and translated by Patricia Terry and Serge Gavronsky
Mystery in Space: pulp fiction library edited by Dale Crain
Monkey vs. Robert and the Crystal of Power by James Kolchalka
The Color of Water: a black man’s tribute to his white mother by James McBride
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Sailing Alone Around the Room: new and selected poems by Billy Collins
The New American Splendor Anthology by Harvey Pekar and various artists
In Our Own Best Interest: how defending human rights benefits us all by William F. Schulz
A Traveler’s Guide to Mars: the mysterious landscapes of the red planet by William K. Hartmann
Travels with Charley: in search of America by John Steinbeck
Language in Danger: the loss of linguistic diversity and the threat to our future by Andrew Dalby
How to Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000: and not go to jail by Bret Stern
Poker Face: girlhood among gamblers by Katy Lederer
Gay Travels: a literary companion edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Batman: Year One Frank Miller, writer; David Mazzucchelli, artist
Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle
Saying Yes: in defense of drug use by Jacob Sullum
Fake, vol. 1 by Sanami Matoh, translated by Nan Rymer and Stuart Hazleton
The Short and Happy Times of the Shmoo by Al Capp
”Hello,” I Lied by M. E. Kerr
Usagi Yojimbo: book sixteen: The Shrouded Moon by Stan Sakai
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Roller Coasters: a thrill seeker’s guide to the ultimate scream machines by Robert Coker
Dancing at the Edge of the World: thoughts on words, women, places by Ursula K. LeGuin
I Can’t Tell You Anything and other stories by Michael Dougan
The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: the spiritual experiments of my generation by Wes “Scoop” Nisker
Persepolis: the story of a childhood by Marjane Satrapi
From the Country of Eight Islands: an anthology of Japanese poetry edited and translated by Hiroaki Sato
The Ghost Trio by Linda Bierds
Sightings: the gray whale’s mysterious journey by Brenda Peterson and Linda Hogan
Wild One by Lucille Lang Day
Infinities by Lucille Lang Day
Curbside Boys: the New York years by Robert Kirby
The New American Poetry, 1945 - 1960 edited by Donald Allen
The Best American Poetry 2002 edited by Robert Creeley; series editor, David Lehman
Mammoth: the resurrection of an ice age giant by Richard Stone
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch
Starting Out in the Sixties: selected essays by Aram Saroyan
March - June
Usagi Yojimbo: Book One by Stan Sakai
Isolation and Illusion: collected short stories, 1977 - 1997 by P. Craig Russell
Safe Area Gorazde: the war in Eastern Bosnia, 1992 - 1995 by Joe Sacco
Subway Series by Leela Corman
American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders edited by Eliot Weinberger
Bizarro Comics DC Comics
The Octopus and the Orangutan: more true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity by Eugene Linden
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse edited and translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite
A History of God: the 4000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstong
Nonrequired Reading by Wislawa Szymborska
Johnny Dynamite by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty
Usagi Yojimbo: Book Two by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: Book Three by Stan Sakai
Space Usagi by Stan Sakai
It’s Been a Good Life by Isaac Asimov, edited by Janet Jeppson Asimov
An Underground Life: the memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck with Frank Heibert, translated by Allison Brown
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt by William Nothdurft
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
An Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry edited and translated by Ichiro Kono and Rikutaro Fukuda
Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry edited and translated by Edith Marcombe Shiffert and Yuki Sawa
Chieko’s Sky by Kotaro Takamura, translated by Soichi Furuta
Like Underground Water: the poetry of mid-twentieth century Japan translated by Naoshi Koriyama and Edward Lueders
Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner
Mobius Stripper by Bana Witt
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: the seven deadly sins and the pursuit of happiness in America by Dan Savage
Black Cat Crossing by Richard Sala
Peculia by Richard Sala
Usagi Yojimbo: book four by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book five by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book six by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book seven by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book eight: Shades of Death by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book nine: Daisho by Stan Sakai
Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me by Jaime Manrique
American Splendor Presents: Bob and Harv’s Comics written by Harvey Pekar, art by R. Crumb
Usagi Yojimbo: book ten: The Brink of Life and Death by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book eleven: Seasons by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book twelve: Grasscutter by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book thirteen: Grey Shadows by Stan Sakai
Mountain Home: the wilderness poetry of ancient China selected and translated by David Hinton
Usagi Yojimbo: book fourteen: Demon Mask by Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo: book fifteen: Grasscutter II, Journey to Atsuta Shrina by Stan Sakai
The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Braided Creek: a conversation in poetry by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser
Diminutive Revolutions by Daniel Bouchard
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty
July
Adventure Capitalist: the ultimate investor’s road trip by Jim Rogers
Midlife Queer: autobiography of a decade, 1971 - 1981 by Martin Duberman
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Alec: three piece suit by Eddie Campbell
Age of Reptiles: Tribal Warfare by Ricardo Delgado
Age of Reptiles: The Hunt by Ricardo Delgado
Pages by Aram Saroyan
Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry edited and translated by Graham Dunstan Martin
Mid-Century French Poets by Wallace Fowlie
Modern French Poetry edited and translated by Patricia Terry and Serge Gavronsky
Mystery in Space: pulp fiction library edited by Dale Crain
Monkey vs. Robert and the Crystal of Power by James Kolchalka
The Color of Water: a black man’s tribute to his white mother by James McBride
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Sailing Alone Around the Room: new and selected poems by Billy Collins
The New American Splendor Anthology by Harvey Pekar and various artists
In Our Own Best Interest: how defending human rights benefits us all by William F. Schulz
A Traveler’s Guide to Mars: the mysterious landscapes of the red planet by William K. Hartmann
Travels with Charley: in search of America by John Steinbeck
Language in Danger: the loss of linguistic diversity and the threat to our future by Andrew Dalby
How to Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000: and not go to jail by Bret Stern
Poker Face: girlhood among gamblers by Katy Lederer
Gay Travels: a literary companion edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Batman: Year One Frank Miller, writer; David Mazzucchelli, artist
Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle
Saying Yes: in defense of drug use by Jacob Sullum
Fake, vol. 1 by Sanami Matoh, translated by Nan Rymer and Stuart Hazleton
The Short and Happy Times of the Shmoo by Al Capp
”Hello,” I Lied by M. E. Kerr
Usagi Yojimbo: book sixteen: The Shrouded Moon by Stan Sakai
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Roller Coasters: a thrill seeker’s guide to the ultimate scream machines by Robert Coker
Dancing at the Edge of the World: thoughts on words, women, places by Ursula K. LeGuin
I Can’t Tell You Anything and other stories by Michael Dougan
The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: the spiritual experiments of my generation by Wes “Scoop” Nisker
Persepolis: the story of a childhood by Marjane Satrapi
From the Country of Eight Islands: an anthology of Japanese poetry edited and translated by Hiroaki Sato
Monday, July 24, 2017
Titles Read in 2002
January - June
Darkness in El Dorado: how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney
Age of Bronze, vol. 1: A Thousand Ships by Eric Shanower
The Five Ages of the Universe by Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Selected Poems by Donald Justice
The Other Wind by Ursula K. LeGuin
Savages by Joe Kane
The Way of Life according to Laotzu by Witter Bynner
Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: a history of the comic art by Roger Sabin
Ake: the years of childhood by Wole Soyinka
American Rhapsody by Joe Eszterhas
Locked in the Cabinet by Robert B. Reich
Dark Life: Martian nanobacteria, rock-eating cave bugs, and other extreme organisms of inner earth and outer space by Michael Ray Taylor
An Anthology of Mexican Poetry edited by Octavio Paz, translated by Samuel R. Beckett
The Sadness of Sex: stories by Barry Yourgrau
Harmless Medicine by Justin Chin
The Silk Dragon: translations from the Chinese by Arthur Sze
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures by Anne Fadiman
Fugue State by Bill Berkson
The Rock Island Hiking Club by Ray A. Young Bear
The Tormented Mirror by Russell Edson
Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell
In the Belly of the Beast: letters from prison by Jack Henry Abbott
Wildlife Wars: my fight to save Africa’s natural treasures by Richard Leakey and Virginia Morell
Pedro and Me: friendship, loss, and what I learned by Judd Winick
Berlin: City of Stones book one, by Jason Lutes
Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis
History as Mystery by Michael Parenti
July - December
Surface Tension by Elaine Equi
Decoy by Elaine Equi
The Vinyl Closet: gays in the music industry by Boze Hadleigh
Intensive Care: selected and new poems by Miroslav Holub
War Junkie by Joe Sacco
The Horror of Collier County by Rich Tommaso
House of Peace by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
Attitude: the new subversive political cartoonists edited by Ted Rall
Mecox Road by Marc Cohen
Captain Britain 1988, by Alan Davis and Jamie Delano
Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes
Sappho’s Immortal Daughters by Margaret Williamson
What Language by J. P. Dancing Bear
The Spring of My Life and selected haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by Sam Hamill
Visions: painting seen through the optic of poetry by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
Library by Stephen Akey
The Chandler Apartments by Owen Hill
Love Stories: sex between men before homosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
In Light of India by Octavio Paz, translated by E. Weinberger
A Contract with God and other tenement stories by Will Eisner
Minor Miracles by Will Eisner
If Not, Winter: fragments of Sappho by Sappho, translations by Anne Carson
The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Robert Giroux
Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope by Lucille Lang Day
Fire in the Garden by Lucille Lang Day
Volcano by Garrett Hongo
Who Buried the Breast of Dreams by Janine Canan
The Annotated Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, edited by Michael Patrick Hearn
To Afghanistan and Back: a graphic travelogue by Ted Rall
The Building by Will Eisner
The Dreamer by Will Eisner
Will Eisner Reader: seven graphic stories by Will Eisner
The Poetry of Surrealism: an anthology edited by Michael Benedikt
The Cubist Poets in Paris: an anthology edited by L. C. Breunig
Pharaoh, Pharaoh by Claudia Emerson Andrews
Crow Milk by Rick Agran
The Run of His Life: the people v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
Life Everywhere: the maverick science of astrobiology by David Darling
Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor
Top Ten, Book One by Alan Moore, Gene Ha
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
Counterpoint by David Alpaugh
Slow Burn for Ozymandias by David Alpaugh
Excelsior!: the amazing life of Stan Lee by Stan Lee and George Mair
Modern Poets of France: a bilingual anthology edited and translated by Louis Simpson
The Third Chimpanzee: the evolution and future of the human animal by Jared Diamond
9 - 11: emergency relief edited by Jeff Mason
Breaking Open the Head: a psychedelic journey into the heart of contemporary shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck
Murder Me Dead by David Lapham
Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry by Robert Pinsky
Mornings Like This: found poems by Annie Dillard
The Open Boat: poems from Asian America edited by Garrett Hongo
Blood Song: a silent ballad by Eric Drooker
The New Young American Poets: an anthology edited by Kevin Prufer
Family Matter by Will Eisner
L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: a biography by Katharine M. Rogers
A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Sky Island by L. Frank Baum
Darkness in El Dorado: how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon by Patrick Tierney
Age of Bronze, vol. 1: A Thousand Ships by Eric Shanower
The Five Ages of the Universe by Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Selected Poems by Donald Justice
The Other Wind by Ursula K. LeGuin
Savages by Joe Kane
The Way of Life according to Laotzu by Witter Bynner
Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: a history of the comic art by Roger Sabin
Ake: the years of childhood by Wole Soyinka
American Rhapsody by Joe Eszterhas
Locked in the Cabinet by Robert B. Reich
Dark Life: Martian nanobacteria, rock-eating cave bugs, and other extreme organisms of inner earth and outer space by Michael Ray Taylor
An Anthology of Mexican Poetry edited by Octavio Paz, translated by Samuel R. Beckett
The Sadness of Sex: stories by Barry Yourgrau
Harmless Medicine by Justin Chin
The Silk Dragon: translations from the Chinese by Arthur Sze
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures by Anne Fadiman
Fugue State by Bill Berkson
The Rock Island Hiking Club by Ray A. Young Bear
The Tormented Mirror by Russell Edson
Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell
In the Belly of the Beast: letters from prison by Jack Henry Abbott
Wildlife Wars: my fight to save Africa’s natural treasures by Richard Leakey and Virginia Morell
Pedro and Me: friendship, loss, and what I learned by Judd Winick
Berlin: City of Stones book one, by Jason Lutes
Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis
History as Mystery by Michael Parenti
July - December
Surface Tension by Elaine Equi
Decoy by Elaine Equi
The Vinyl Closet: gays in the music industry by Boze Hadleigh
Intensive Care: selected and new poems by Miroslav Holub
War Junkie by Joe Sacco
The Horror of Collier County by Rich Tommaso
House of Peace by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
Attitude: the new subversive political cartoonists edited by Ted Rall
Mecox Road by Marc Cohen
Captain Britain 1988, by Alan Davis and Jamie Delano
Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes
Sappho’s Immortal Daughters by Margaret Williamson
What Language by J. P. Dancing Bear
The Spring of My Life and selected haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by Sam Hamill
Visions: painting seen through the optic of poetry by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
Library by Stephen Akey
The Chandler Apartments by Owen Hill
Love Stories: sex between men before homosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
In Light of India by Octavio Paz, translated by E. Weinberger
A Contract with God and other tenement stories by Will Eisner
Minor Miracles by Will Eisner
If Not, Winter: fragments of Sappho by Sappho, translations by Anne Carson
The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Robert Giroux
Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope by Lucille Lang Day
Fire in the Garden by Lucille Lang Day
Volcano by Garrett Hongo
Who Buried the Breast of Dreams by Janine Canan
The Annotated Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, edited by Michael Patrick Hearn
To Afghanistan and Back: a graphic travelogue by Ted Rall
The Building by Will Eisner
The Dreamer by Will Eisner
Will Eisner Reader: seven graphic stories by Will Eisner
The Poetry of Surrealism: an anthology edited by Michael Benedikt
The Cubist Poets in Paris: an anthology edited by L. C. Breunig
Pharaoh, Pharaoh by Claudia Emerson Andrews
Crow Milk by Rick Agran
The Run of His Life: the people v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
Life Everywhere: the maverick science of astrobiology by David Darling
Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor
Top Ten, Book One by Alan Moore, Gene Ha
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
Counterpoint by David Alpaugh
Slow Burn for Ozymandias by David Alpaugh
Excelsior!: the amazing life of Stan Lee by Stan Lee and George Mair
Modern Poets of France: a bilingual anthology edited and translated by Louis Simpson
The Third Chimpanzee: the evolution and future of the human animal by Jared Diamond
9 - 11: emergency relief edited by Jeff Mason
Breaking Open the Head: a psychedelic journey into the heart of contemporary shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck
Murder Me Dead by David Lapham
Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry by Robert Pinsky
Mornings Like This: found poems by Annie Dillard
The Open Boat: poems from Asian America edited by Garrett Hongo
Blood Song: a silent ballad by Eric Drooker
The New Young American Poets: an anthology edited by Kevin Prufer
Family Matter by Will Eisner
L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: a biography by Katharine M. Rogers
A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Sky Island by L. Frank Baum
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Titles Read in 2001
January - February
City Mouth by Hunt Emerson
Joining the Tribe: growing up gay and lesbian in the 90s by Linnea Due
Best American Poetry 2000 edited by Rita Dove; series editor: David Lehman
Paradox in Oz by Edward Einhorn; illustrations by Eric Shanower
Leonard’s Mountain of Claims and the Diet of Worms by Stephen Jay Gould
The Parrot’s Lament and other true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity by Eugene Linden
Cleansing the Doors of Perception: the religious significance of entheogenic plants and chemicals by Huston Smith
Good-bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson
Train Go Sorry: inside a Deaf world by Leah Hager Cohen
Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts Mortal Words; The Past by Galway Kinnell
March - June
Swimming with Giants: my encounters with whales, dolphins, and seals by Anne Collet with Marc Sich, translated by Gayle Wurst
The Invisible Musician by Ray A. Young Bear
A World Full of Gods: the strange triumph of Christianity by Keith Hopkins
Word of Mouth: an anthology of gay American poetry edited by Timothy Liu
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
The Velveteen Father: an unexpected journey to parenthood by Jesse Green
New Addresses by Kenneth Koch
Taliban: militant Islam, oil and fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: a memoir by Keith Fleming
Invocation L. A. : urban multicultural poetry edited by Michelle T. Clinton
Blues for All of Us by Julia Vinograd
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
Familiar Spirits: a memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson by Alison Lurie
The One in the Many: a poet’s memoirs by David Ignatow
The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln by Scott McCloud
Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias Schneebaum
Losing Matt Shepard: life and politics by Beth Loffreda
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerny
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The Great Tranquility: questions and answers by Yehuda Amichai
Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Eamon Grennan
Glottal Stop: 101 poems by Paul Celan, translated by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh
Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
Why Elephants Have Big Ears: understanding patterns of life on Earth by Chris Lavers
July - August
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Lying Stones of Marrakech: penultimate reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
Morning Is a Long Time Coming by Bette Greene
Disguised as a Poem: my years teaching poetry at San Quentin by Judith Tannenbaum
In Pharaoh’s Army: memories of the lost war by Tobias Wolff
Selected Poems, 1938 - 1988 by Thomas McGrath
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
Barrel Fever: stories and essays by David Sedaris
Astro City: Confession 1997, by Kurt Busiek, Brent Eric Anderson
Astro City: Family Album 1998, by Kurt Busiek, Brent Eric Anderson
Cats of the Temple by Brad Leithauser
The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
How to Make a Terrarium by Veronica Patterson
Swan, What Shores? by Veronica Patterson
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck
The Chair: rethinking culture, body, and design by Galen Cranz
The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias
Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner, Harvey Pekar, Frank Stack
Astro City: Life in the Big City 1996, Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson
In the Beginning: creation stories from around the world by Virginia Hamilton; illustrations by Barry Moser
This Same Sky edited by Naomi Shihab Nye
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
Wendel All Together by Howard Cruse
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: earthling poems, 1965 - 1990, complete by Alice Walker
Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: the science behind folk remedies and old wives’ tales by Robert S. Root-Bernstein and Michele M. Root-Bernstein
Three Month Fever: the Andrew Cunanan story by Gary Indiana
The Ape and the Sushi Master: cultural reflections of a primatologist by Frans de Waal
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman
The Motorcycle Diaries: a journey around South America by Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Chasing Che: a motorcycle journey in search of the Guevara legend by Patrick Symmes
In Hazard by Richard Hughes
Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry edited by Duane Niatum
Crossing the Yellow River: three hundred poems from the Chinese translated by Sam Hamill
Wreckage by Ha Jin
A Long Rainy Season: haiku and tanka edited and translated by Leza Lowitz, Miyaki Aoyama, and Akemi Tomioka
Hard Road: a Cat Marsala mystery by Barbara D’Amato
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken by Seth
The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century vol. 2, edited by Douglas Messerli
September - December
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Kanshi: the poetry of Ishikawa Jozan and other Edo-period poets translated by Burton Watson
Drawn and Quarterly vol. 3, edited by Chris Oliveros
Cured in the Going Bebop by Michael Gizzi
Ours, Yours by Julien Poirier
The Men’s Club by Leonard Michaels
Object of My Affections by Stephen McCauley
Body of Waking by Muriel Rukeyser
Breaking Open by Muriel Rukeyser
The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
Dark Fields of the Republic: poems, 1991 - 1995 by Adrienne Rich
Sleep Demons: an insomniac’s memoir by Bill Hayes
Selling the Hammock by Kate Gale
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Jacob Sloan
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Other Traditions by John Ashbery
Mandate of Heaven: a new generation of entrepreneurs, dissidents, bohemians, and technocrats lays claim to China’s future by Orville Schell
Virtual Tibet: searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood by Orville Schell
Little Lit: folklore and fairy tale funnies edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
Best American Poetry 2001 edited by Robert Hass; series editor, David Lehman
City Mouth by Hunt Emerson
Joining the Tribe: growing up gay and lesbian in the 90s by Linnea Due
Best American Poetry 2000 edited by Rita Dove; series editor: David Lehman
Paradox in Oz by Edward Einhorn; illustrations by Eric Shanower
Leonard’s Mountain of Claims and the Diet of Worms by Stephen Jay Gould
The Parrot’s Lament and other true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity by Eugene Linden
Cleansing the Doors of Perception: the religious significance of entheogenic plants and chemicals by Huston Smith
Good-bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson
Train Go Sorry: inside a Deaf world by Leah Hager Cohen
Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts Mortal Words; The Past by Galway Kinnell
March - June
Swimming with Giants: my encounters with whales, dolphins, and seals by Anne Collet with Marc Sich, translated by Gayle Wurst
The Invisible Musician by Ray A. Young Bear
A World Full of Gods: the strange triumph of Christianity by Keith Hopkins
Word of Mouth: an anthology of gay American poetry edited by Timothy Liu
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
The Velveteen Father: an unexpected journey to parenthood by Jesse Green
New Addresses by Kenneth Koch
Taliban: militant Islam, oil and fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: a memoir by Keith Fleming
Invocation L. A. : urban multicultural poetry edited by Michelle T. Clinton
Blues for All of Us by Julia Vinograd
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
Familiar Spirits: a memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson by Alison Lurie
The One in the Many: a poet’s memoirs by David Ignatow
The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln by Scott McCloud
Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias Schneebaum
Losing Matt Shepard: life and politics by Beth Loffreda
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerny
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The Great Tranquility: questions and answers by Yehuda Amichai
Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Eamon Grennan
Glottal Stop: 101 poems by Paul Celan, translated by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh
Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
Why Elephants Have Big Ears: understanding patterns of life on Earth by Chris Lavers
July - August
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Lying Stones of Marrakech: penultimate reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
Morning Is a Long Time Coming by Bette Greene
Disguised as a Poem: my years teaching poetry at San Quentin by Judith Tannenbaum
In Pharaoh’s Army: memories of the lost war by Tobias Wolff
Selected Poems, 1938 - 1988 by Thomas McGrath
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
Barrel Fever: stories and essays by David Sedaris
Astro City: Confession 1997, by Kurt Busiek, Brent Eric Anderson
Astro City: Family Album 1998, by Kurt Busiek, Brent Eric Anderson
Cats of the Temple by Brad Leithauser
The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
How to Make a Terrarium by Veronica Patterson
Swan, What Shores? by Veronica Patterson
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck
The Chair: rethinking culture, body, and design by Galen Cranz
The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias
Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner, Harvey Pekar, Frank Stack
Astro City: Life in the Big City 1996, Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson
In the Beginning: creation stories from around the world by Virginia Hamilton; illustrations by Barry Moser
This Same Sky edited by Naomi Shihab Nye
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
Wendel All Together by Howard Cruse
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: earthling poems, 1965 - 1990, complete by Alice Walker
Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: the science behind folk remedies and old wives’ tales by Robert S. Root-Bernstein and Michele M. Root-Bernstein
Three Month Fever: the Andrew Cunanan story by Gary Indiana
The Ape and the Sushi Master: cultural reflections of a primatologist by Frans de Waal
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman
The Motorcycle Diaries: a journey around South America by Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Chasing Che: a motorcycle journey in search of the Guevara legend by Patrick Symmes
In Hazard by Richard Hughes
Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry edited by Duane Niatum
Crossing the Yellow River: three hundred poems from the Chinese translated by Sam Hamill
Wreckage by Ha Jin
A Long Rainy Season: haiku and tanka edited and translated by Leza Lowitz, Miyaki Aoyama, and Akemi Tomioka
Hard Road: a Cat Marsala mystery by Barbara D’Amato
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken by Seth
The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century vol. 2, edited by Douglas Messerli
September - December
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Kanshi: the poetry of Ishikawa Jozan and other Edo-period poets translated by Burton Watson
Drawn and Quarterly vol. 3, edited by Chris Oliveros
Cured in the Going Bebop by Michael Gizzi
Ours, Yours by Julien Poirier
The Men’s Club by Leonard Michaels
Object of My Affections by Stephen McCauley
Body of Waking by Muriel Rukeyser
Breaking Open by Muriel Rukeyser
The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
Dark Fields of the Republic: poems, 1991 - 1995 by Adrienne Rich
Sleep Demons: an insomniac’s memoir by Bill Hayes
Selling the Hammock by Kate Gale
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Jacob Sloan
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Other Traditions by John Ashbery
Mandate of Heaven: a new generation of entrepreneurs, dissidents, bohemians, and technocrats lays claim to China’s future by Orville Schell
Virtual Tibet: searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood by Orville Schell
Little Lit: folklore and fairy tale funnies edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
Best American Poetry 2001 edited by Robert Hass; series editor, David Lehman
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Titles Read in 2000
January
Living Is What I Wanted: last poems by David Ignatow
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
A Naturalist in Alaska by Adolph Murie
Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson
Dreams of a Final Theory: the search for the fundamental laws of nature by Steven Weinberg
The Magic City by E. Nesbit
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass
The Mercy by Philip Levine
Ringworld by Larry Niven
February - April
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin
Tehanu: the last book of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
God: a biography by Jack Miles
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and other travel sketches by Matsuo Basho, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: an anthology edited by Faubion Bowers
Chiyo-ni: woman haiku master by Chiyo-ni, translated by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibasi
Queer Spirits: a gay men’s myth book by Will Roscoe
Negative Wires by Rufo Noriega
New Generation: poems from China today edited by Wang Ping
Out of the Howling Storm: the new Chinese poetry edited by Tony Barnstone
Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry edited and translated by Michelle Yeh
Crow with No Mouth by Ikkyu, translated by Stephen Berg
Haiku Harvest translated by Peter Beilenson and Harry Behn
Archaeology of the Circle: new and selected poems by Bruce Weigl
Shells by Craig Arnold
May
Country of My Skull: guilt, sorrow, and the limits of forgiveness in the new South Africa by Antjie Krog
The Selected Poems of Po Chu-i by Po Chu-i, translated by David Hinton
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico Garcia Lorca, edited by Francisco Garcia Lorca and Donald M. Allen
Selected Poems: Lorca and Jimenez edited and translated by Robert Bly
June - December
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
The Scientist in the Crib: minds, brains, and how children learn by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Fat Man in a Middle Seat: forty years of covering politics by Jack Germond
A Book of Luminous Things: an international anthology of poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz
One Continuous Mistake: four noble truths for writers by Gail Sher
What’s Michael?: living together by Makoto Kobayashi, translated by Dana Lewis and Toren Smith
Blue Is the Hero: poems, 1960 - 1975 by Bill Berkson
Serenade: poetry and prose, 1975 - 1989 by Bill Berkson
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Virtually Normal: an argument about homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Roadside Dog by Czeslaw Milosz
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Japanese Mythology by Julie Piggott
Our Paris: sketches from memory by Edmund White
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Kid: what happened after my boyfriend and I decided to get pregnant by Dan Savage
The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings by Richard Brautigan
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Odes of Roba by Clark Coolidge
Plasticville by David Trinidad
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Flashbacks and Premonitions by Jon Longhi
Mongrel: essays, diatribes, and pranks by Justin Chin
Twisted History by Dale Jensen
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Perfect Example by John Porcellino
Collected Poems, 1930 - 1983 by Josephine Miles
The Very Thing That Happens by Russell Edson
The Golden Age of Marvel Comics edited by Tom Brevoort
Inside the Animal Mind by George Page
The Social Lives of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
When Elephants Weep: the emotional lives of animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Massson and Susan McCarthy
The Tipping Point: how little things can make a big difference by Malcolm Gladwell
A Frieze for a Temple of Love by Edward Field
Essential Zen edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Tensho David Schneider
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Warriors Don’t Cry: a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
The Professor and the Madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
On Writing: a memoir of the craft by Stephen King
Shrub: the short but happy political life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Reading Between the Signs: intercultural communication for Sign Language interpreters by Anna Mindess
A Journey into the Deaf-World by Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, Ben Bahan
Tigers in the Snow by Peter Matthiessen
The Tribe of Tiger: cats and their culture by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn
An Unfortunate Woman: a journey by Richard Brautigan
Living Is What I Wanted: last poems by David Ignatow
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
A Naturalist in Alaska by Adolph Murie
Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson
Dreams of a Final Theory: the search for the fundamental laws of nature by Steven Weinberg
The Magic City by E. Nesbit
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass
The Mercy by Philip Levine
Ringworld by Larry Niven
February - April
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin
Tehanu: the last book of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
God: a biography by Jack Miles
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and other travel sketches by Matsuo Basho, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: an anthology edited by Faubion Bowers
Chiyo-ni: woman haiku master by Chiyo-ni, translated by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibasi
Queer Spirits: a gay men’s myth book by Will Roscoe
Negative Wires by Rufo Noriega
New Generation: poems from China today edited by Wang Ping
Out of the Howling Storm: the new Chinese poetry edited by Tony Barnstone
Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry edited and translated by Michelle Yeh
Crow with No Mouth by Ikkyu, translated by Stephen Berg
Haiku Harvest translated by Peter Beilenson and Harry Behn
Archaeology of the Circle: new and selected poems by Bruce Weigl
Shells by Craig Arnold
May
Country of My Skull: guilt, sorrow, and the limits of forgiveness in the new South Africa by Antjie Krog
The Selected Poems of Po Chu-i by Po Chu-i, translated by David Hinton
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca by Federico Garcia Lorca, edited by Francisco Garcia Lorca and Donald M. Allen
Selected Poems: Lorca and Jimenez edited and translated by Robert Bly
June - December
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
The Scientist in the Crib: minds, brains, and how children learn by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Fat Man in a Middle Seat: forty years of covering politics by Jack Germond
A Book of Luminous Things: an international anthology of poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz
One Continuous Mistake: four noble truths for writers by Gail Sher
What’s Michael?: living together by Makoto Kobayashi, translated by Dana Lewis and Toren Smith
Blue Is the Hero: poems, 1960 - 1975 by Bill Berkson
Serenade: poetry and prose, 1975 - 1989 by Bill Berkson
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Virtually Normal: an argument about homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Roadside Dog by Czeslaw Milosz
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Japanese Mythology by Julie Piggott
Our Paris: sketches from memory by Edmund White
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Kid: what happened after my boyfriend and I decided to get pregnant by Dan Savage
The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings by Richard Brautigan
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Odes of Roba by Clark Coolidge
Plasticville by David Trinidad
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Flashbacks and Premonitions by Jon Longhi
Mongrel: essays, diatribes, and pranks by Justin Chin
Twisted History by Dale Jensen
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Perfect Example by John Porcellino
Collected Poems, 1930 - 1983 by Josephine Miles
The Very Thing That Happens by Russell Edson
The Golden Age of Marvel Comics edited by Tom Brevoort
Inside the Animal Mind by George Page
The Social Lives of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
When Elephants Weep: the emotional lives of animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Massson and Susan McCarthy
The Tipping Point: how little things can make a big difference by Malcolm Gladwell
A Frieze for a Temple of Love by Edward Field
Essential Zen edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Tensho David Schneider
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Warriors Don’t Cry: a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
The Professor and the Madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
On Writing: a memoir of the craft by Stephen King
Shrub: the short but happy political life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Reading Between the Signs: intercultural communication for Sign Language interpreters by Anna Mindess
A Journey into the Deaf-World by Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, Ben Bahan
Tigers in the Snow by Peter Matthiessen
The Tribe of Tiger: cats and their culture by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn
An Unfortunate Woman: a journey by Richard Brautigan
Friday, July 21, 2017
Titles Read in 1999
January
Silent Thunder: in the presence of elephants by Katy Payne
Sweet Machine by Mark Doty
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan vols. 1 and 2, by John L. Stephens
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
February - June
Traveler’s Tales: Brazil edited by Annette Haddad and Scott Doggett
Into a Wild Sanctuary: a life in music and natural sound by Bernie Krause
The Best American Poetry 1998 edited by John Hollander; series editor: David Lehman
The Cane Groves of Narmada River: erotic poems of old India edited and translated by Andrew Schelling
How the Sky Fell by Denise Duhamel
The Sacred Path: spells, prayers, and power songs of the American Indians edited by John Bierhorst
Wearing the Morning Star: Native American song-poems edited by Brian Swann
Full House: the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time by Stephen Jay Gould
Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Year of the Gorilla by George B. Schaller
Into Thin Air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
The Anchorage by Mark Wunderlich
Dearest Goddess: translations from Latvian folk poetry by Eso Benjamins
Anthology of Armenian Poetry translated and edited by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian
The Static Element: selected poems by Natan Zach, translated by Peter Everwine and Shulamit Yasny-Starkman
The Cloud of Unknowing author unknown, translated by Clifton Wolters
Living Instead by William Bronk
Plum Blossom: poems of Li Ch’ing Chao by Li Ch’ing Chao, translated by James Cryer
Undersong: chosen poems old and new, revised by Audre Lord
The Heinemann Book of African Women’s Poetry edited by Stella and Frank Chipasula
July - September
The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido
Selected Poems by Robert Bly
Love and Time: the poems of Ou-Yang Hsiu by Ou-Yang Hsiu, edited and translated by J. P. Seaton
Old Friend from Far Away: 150 Chinese poems translated by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh
Selected Poems of Su Tung-P’o by Su Tung-P’o, translated by Burton Watson
Li Pai: 200 selected poems by Li Pai [Li Po], translated by Rewi Alley
Mind Riiot: coming of age in comix edited by Karen D. Hirsch
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Lloyd Alexander
Figments of the Firmament by Margaret Rabb
Fernando’s Cafe by Fernando D. Castro
At My Ease: uncollected poems of the fifties and sixties by David Ignatow, edited by Virginia R. Ferris
Despite the Plainness of the Day: love poems by David Ignatow
Laughing Lost in the Mountains: poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei, translated by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, and Xu Haixin
Tea by D. A. Powell
Modern Japanese Haiku: an anthology edited and translated by Makoto Ueda
Of This World: a poet’s life in poetry by Richard Lewis
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: on foot across East Africa by Rick Ridgeway
Moments of Rising Mist: a collection of Sung landscape poetry edited and translated by Amitendranath Tagore
The Pilot Star Elegies by Sherod Santos
Twilight at the Equator by Jaime Manrique
Father and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, translated by George Reavey
Shedding Life: disease, politics, and other human conditions by Miroslav Holub
Walt Whitman: a life by Justin Kaplan
Not Far from the River: poems from the Gatha Saptasati by David Ray
October
One Hundred Frogs by Hiroaki Sato
The Corruption of American Politics: what went wrong and why by Elizabeth Drew
Color of My Living Heart by Floyd Salas
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
The Man in the Ceiling by Jules Feiffer
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Next of Kin: what chimpanzees have taught me about who we are by Roger Fouts, with Stephen Turkel Mills
Gilgamesh by David Ferry
Hell Soup by Sparrow 13 Laughing Wand
La Symphonie Pastorale by Andre Gide, translated by Dorothy Bussy
November - December
Oral Tradition: selected poems old and new by Jewelle Gomez
The Cinnamon Peeler: selected poems by Michael Ondaatje
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
The Redshifting Web: poems, 1970 - 1978 by Arthur Sze
The Best American Poetry 1999 edited by Robert Bly; series editor: David Lehman
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
American Indian Poetry: an anthology of songs and chants edited by George W. Cronyn
The Fatal Bullet: a true account of the assassination, lingering pain, death and burial of James A. Garfield, 20th president of the U. S. by Rick Geary
The Dream of the Unified Field: selected poems, 1974 - 1994 by Jorie Graham
Burnt Offerings by Timothy Liu
Silent Thunder: in the presence of elephants by Katy Payne
Sweet Machine by Mark Doty
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan vols. 1 and 2, by John L. Stephens
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
February - June
Traveler’s Tales: Brazil edited by Annette Haddad and Scott Doggett
Into a Wild Sanctuary: a life in music and natural sound by Bernie Krause
The Best American Poetry 1998 edited by John Hollander; series editor: David Lehman
The Cane Groves of Narmada River: erotic poems of old India edited and translated by Andrew Schelling
How the Sky Fell by Denise Duhamel
The Sacred Path: spells, prayers, and power songs of the American Indians edited by John Bierhorst
Wearing the Morning Star: Native American song-poems edited by Brian Swann
Full House: the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time by Stephen Jay Gould
Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Year of the Gorilla by George B. Schaller
Into Thin Air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
The Anchorage by Mark Wunderlich
Dearest Goddess: translations from Latvian folk poetry by Eso Benjamins
Anthology of Armenian Poetry translated and edited by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian
The Static Element: selected poems by Natan Zach, translated by Peter Everwine and Shulamit Yasny-Starkman
The Cloud of Unknowing author unknown, translated by Clifton Wolters
Living Instead by William Bronk
Plum Blossom: poems of Li Ch’ing Chao by Li Ch’ing Chao, translated by James Cryer
Undersong: chosen poems old and new, revised by Audre Lord
The Heinemann Book of African Women’s Poetry edited by Stella and Frank Chipasula
July - September
The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido
Selected Poems by Robert Bly
Love and Time: the poems of Ou-Yang Hsiu by Ou-Yang Hsiu, edited and translated by J. P. Seaton
Old Friend from Far Away: 150 Chinese poems translated by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh
Selected Poems of Su Tung-P’o by Su Tung-P’o, translated by Burton Watson
Li Pai: 200 selected poems by Li Pai [Li Po], translated by Rewi Alley
Mind Riiot: coming of age in comix edited by Karen D. Hirsch
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Lloyd Alexander
Figments of the Firmament by Margaret Rabb
Fernando’s Cafe by Fernando D. Castro
At My Ease: uncollected poems of the fifties and sixties by David Ignatow, edited by Virginia R. Ferris
Despite the Plainness of the Day: love poems by David Ignatow
Laughing Lost in the Mountains: poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei, translated by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, and Xu Haixin
Tea by D. A. Powell
Modern Japanese Haiku: an anthology edited and translated by Makoto Ueda
Of This World: a poet’s life in poetry by Richard Lewis
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: on foot across East Africa by Rick Ridgeway
Moments of Rising Mist: a collection of Sung landscape poetry edited and translated by Amitendranath Tagore
The Pilot Star Elegies by Sherod Santos
Twilight at the Equator by Jaime Manrique
Father and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, translated by George Reavey
Shedding Life: disease, politics, and other human conditions by Miroslav Holub
Walt Whitman: a life by Justin Kaplan
Not Far from the River: poems from the Gatha Saptasati by David Ray
October
One Hundred Frogs by Hiroaki Sato
The Corruption of American Politics: what went wrong and why by Elizabeth Drew
Color of My Living Heart by Floyd Salas
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
The Man in the Ceiling by Jules Feiffer
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Next of Kin: what chimpanzees have taught me about who we are by Roger Fouts, with Stephen Turkel Mills
Gilgamesh by David Ferry
Hell Soup by Sparrow 13 Laughing Wand
La Symphonie Pastorale by Andre Gide, translated by Dorothy Bussy
November - December
Oral Tradition: selected poems old and new by Jewelle Gomez
The Cinnamon Peeler: selected poems by Michael Ondaatje
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
The Redshifting Web: poems, 1970 - 1978 by Arthur Sze
The Best American Poetry 1999 edited by Robert Bly; series editor: David Lehman
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
American Indian Poetry: an anthology of songs and chants edited by George W. Cronyn
The Fatal Bullet: a true account of the assassination, lingering pain, death and burial of James A. Garfield, 20th president of the U. S. by Rick Geary
The Dream of the Unified Field: selected poems, 1974 - 1994 by Jorie Graham
Burnt Offerings by Timothy Liu
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Titles Read in 1998
January - May
Oz and Beyond: the fantasy world of L. Frank Baum by Michael O. Riley
To Jerusalem and Back: a personal account by Saul Bellow
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
Heaven’s Coast: a memoir by Mark Doty
The Collected Poems, 1931 - 1987 by Czeslaw Milosz
The Orange Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang
View with a Grain of Sand: selected poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanaugh
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China by Arthur Waley
The Sound of Water: haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa translated by Sam Hamill
June - September
The Best American Poetry 1997 edited by James Tate; series editor: David Lehman
No Contest: the case against competition by Alfie Kohn
Selected Poetry, 1937 - 1990 by Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, edited by Djelal Kadir
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by John Nathan
The Horse Has Six Legs: an anthology of Serbian poetry edited and translated by Charles Simic
Without by Donald Hall
October - December
Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow by Yang Wan-li, translated by Jonathan Chaves
People on a Bridge by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Adam Czerniawski
Terrain poems by Molly Fisk, Dan Bellm, Forrest Hamer
Call and Response by Forrest Hamer
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Wearing Dad’s Head by Barry Yourgrau
Words for the Taking: the hunt for a plagiarist by Neal Bowers
Pilgrim of the Clouds by Yuan Hung-tao, translated by Jonathan Chaves
Three Gospels translated by Reynolds Price
Paul: the mind of the apostle by A. N. Wilson
The Essential Jesus edited by John Dominic Crossan
Waiting for the Weekend by Witold Rybczynski
I Become Part of It: sacred dimensions in Native American life edited by D. M. Dooling and Paul Jordan-Smith
Oz and Beyond: the fantasy world of L. Frank Baum by Michael O. Riley
To Jerusalem and Back: a personal account by Saul Bellow
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
Heaven’s Coast: a memoir by Mark Doty
The Collected Poems, 1931 - 1987 by Czeslaw Milosz
The Orange Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang
View with a Grain of Sand: selected poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanaugh
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China by Arthur Waley
The Sound of Water: haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa translated by Sam Hamill
June - September
The Best American Poetry 1997 edited by James Tate; series editor: David Lehman
No Contest: the case against competition by Alfie Kohn
Selected Poetry, 1937 - 1990 by Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, edited by Djelal Kadir
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by John Nathan
The Horse Has Six Legs: an anthology of Serbian poetry edited and translated by Charles Simic
Without by Donald Hall
October - December
Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow by Yang Wan-li, translated by Jonathan Chaves
People on a Bridge by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Adam Czerniawski
Terrain poems by Molly Fisk, Dan Bellm, Forrest Hamer
Call and Response by Forrest Hamer
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Wearing Dad’s Head by Barry Yourgrau
Words for the Taking: the hunt for a plagiarist by Neal Bowers
Pilgrim of the Clouds by Yuan Hung-tao, translated by Jonathan Chaves
Three Gospels translated by Reynolds Price
Paul: the mind of the apostle by A. N. Wilson
The Essential Jesus edited by John Dominic Crossan
Waiting for the Weekend by Witold Rybczynski
I Become Part of It: sacred dimensions in Native American life edited by D. M. Dooling and Paul Jordan-Smith
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Titles Read in 1997
January - April
The Gold at the Starbow’s End by Frederik Pohl
The Shambala Guide to Yoga by Georg Feuerstein
Tao: the watercourse way by Alan Watts
Fine Madness no. 20 and 21
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado, translated by James L. Taylor and William Grossman
The Essential Haiku: versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa edited and translated by Robert Hass
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff
Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing
The Best American Poetry 1996 edited by Adrienne Rich; series editors: David Lehman
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
The Ink Dark Moon: love poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani
Take It Like a Man: the autobiography of Boy George by Boy George O’Dowd, with Spencer Bright
Poems from Black Africa edited by Langston Hughes
Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson, edited by Stanley Appelbaum
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens
May - December
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Castle Waiting: the Curse of Brambly Hedge by Linda Medley
No Love Lost by Ariel Bordeaux
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry third edition, edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier
The Sexual Brain by Simon LeVay
Some Holy Googolplex by Horehound Stillpoint (Greg Taylor)
Naked by David Sedaris
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Powerless: selected poems, 1973 - 1990 by Tim Dlugos, edited by David Trinidad
Falconer by John Cheever
The World and Its Streets, Places by Larry Eigner
Things Stirring Together or Far Away by Larry Eigner
Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal
Myron by Gore Vidal
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Empathy by Sarah Schulman
Japanese Haiku translator uncredited, Peter Pauper Press
Around the World in Eight Days by Jules Verne
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
The Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer Maude and J. D. Duff
Sick of Icarus by Andre Ricciardi
A New Geography of Poets edited by Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Charles Stetler
Kurt Cobain and Mozart Are Both Dead: the second Leonard and Larry collection by Tim Barela
Bite Hard by Justin Chin
Among Whales by Roger Payne
Coming of Age with Elephants by Joyce Poole
Bonobo: the forgotten ape by Frans de Waal and Frans Lanting
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman
Reflections of Eden: my years with the orangutans of Borneo by Birute Galdikas
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Back Roads to Far Towns by Basho, translated by Cid Corman
Breath on the Mirror: mythic voices and visions of the living Maya by Dennis Tedlock
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
Dolphin Days: the life and times of the spinner dolphin by Kenneth S. Norris
Opium Wars by Phil Taggart
Silver Dollar by Carol Ann Russell
The Wooden Soldiers of Oz by Alexander Volkov, translated by Mary G. Langford
The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum
Tread the Dark by David Ignatow
Whisper to the Earth by David Ignatow
The Longest Walk: an odyssey of the human spirit by George Meehan
The Collected Novels of Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, America by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
A Different Person: a memoir by James Merrill
Maurice by E. M. Forster
Boy: tales of childhood by Roald Dahl
Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter edited by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
Times Ten: an anthology of Northern California poets edited by David Alpaugh
Loose Ends by Owen Hill
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
The Gold at the Starbow’s End by Frederik Pohl
The Shambala Guide to Yoga by Georg Feuerstein
Tao: the watercourse way by Alan Watts
Fine Madness no. 20 and 21
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado, translated by James L. Taylor and William Grossman
The Essential Haiku: versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa edited and translated by Robert Hass
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff
Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing
The Best American Poetry 1996 edited by Adrienne Rich; series editors: David Lehman
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
The Ink Dark Moon: love poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani
Take It Like a Man: the autobiography of Boy George by Boy George O’Dowd, with Spencer Bright
Poems from Black Africa edited by Langston Hughes
Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson, edited by Stanley Appelbaum
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens
May - December
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Castle Waiting: the Curse of Brambly Hedge by Linda Medley
No Love Lost by Ariel Bordeaux
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry third edition, edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier
The Sexual Brain by Simon LeVay
Some Holy Googolplex by Horehound Stillpoint (Greg Taylor)
Naked by David Sedaris
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Powerless: selected poems, 1973 - 1990 by Tim Dlugos, edited by David Trinidad
Falconer by John Cheever
The World and Its Streets, Places by Larry Eigner
Things Stirring Together or Far Away by Larry Eigner
Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal
Myron by Gore Vidal
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Empathy by Sarah Schulman
Japanese Haiku translator uncredited, Peter Pauper Press
Around the World in Eight Days by Jules Verne
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
The Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer Maude and J. D. Duff
Sick of Icarus by Andre Ricciardi
A New Geography of Poets edited by Edward Field, Gerald Locklin, Charles Stetler
Kurt Cobain and Mozart Are Both Dead: the second Leonard and Larry collection by Tim Barela
Bite Hard by Justin Chin
Among Whales by Roger Payne
Coming of Age with Elephants by Joyce Poole
Bonobo: the forgotten ape by Frans de Waal and Frans Lanting
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman
Reflections of Eden: my years with the orangutans of Borneo by Birute Galdikas
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Back Roads to Far Towns by Basho, translated by Cid Corman
Breath on the Mirror: mythic voices and visions of the living Maya by Dennis Tedlock
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
Dolphin Days: the life and times of the spinner dolphin by Kenneth S. Norris
Opium Wars by Phil Taggart
Silver Dollar by Carol Ann Russell
The Wooden Soldiers of Oz by Alexander Volkov, translated by Mary G. Langford
The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum
Tread the Dark by David Ignatow
Whisper to the Earth by David Ignatow
The Longest Walk: an odyssey of the human spirit by George Meehan
The Collected Novels of Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, America by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
A Different Person: a memoir by James Merrill
Maurice by E. M. Forster
Boy: tales of childhood by Roald Dahl
Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter edited by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
Times Ten: an anthology of Northern California poets edited by David Alpaugh
Loose Ends by Owen Hill
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Titles Read in 1996
January - February
Brazilian Poetry edited by Emanuel Brasil and William Jay Smith
A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Bertrand Mathieu
Love and the Misfortune Cookie poetry manuscript by Tim Donnelly
The Maya 5th edition, by Michael D. Coe
La Capital: the biography of Mexico City by Jonathan Kandell
March - April
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry edited by Ed Ochester and Peter Oresick
The Power Game: how Washington works by Hedrick Smith
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz, translated by J. M. Cohen
The Fate of the Elephant by Douglas H. Chadwick
Solution Passage: poems, 1978 - 1981 by Clark Coolidge
Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, edited by Nathaniel Tarn, translations by Anthony Kerrigan, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reed, and Nathaniel Tarn
Earthlight by Andre Breton, translated by Bill Zavatsky and Zack Rogow
Technicians of the Sacred: a range of poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania edited by Jerome Rothenberg
May - July
Things We Need: two stories by Chris Schneider
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter and Philip Mead
The Rape of the Nile: tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt by Brian M. Fagan
Homophobia: a weapon of sexism by Suzanne Pharr
New and Selected Poems by Philip Levine
In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Manner ‘Music’ by Charles Reznikoff
The Autobiography and other writings by Benjamin Franklin, edited by L. Jesse Lemisch
An Autobiographical Novel by Kenneth Rexroth
Concrete Poetry: a world view edited by Mary Ellen Solt
A History of Writing by Albertine Gaur
August - October
I Smell Esther Williams and other stories by Mark Leyner
Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life By Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Florida three novels by Kathy Acker
Mars: the story of the red planet by Peter Cattermole
Stonehenge Complete by Christopher Chippindale
Euripides’ Medea by Euripides, translated by Brendan Kennelly
Tuning by David Antin
What it means to be avant-garde by David Antin
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey by Chris Burden
November - December
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
Collected Poems, 1948 - 1984 by Derek Walcott
Gilgamesh translated from the Sin-lequi-unninni version by John Gardner and John Maier, with Richard A. Henshaw
Equal in Desire by Clive Matson
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Best American Poetry 1995 edited by Richard Howard; series editor: David Lehman
The Elements of Yoga by Godfrey Devereux
The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms edited by Ron Padgett
Rhyme’s Reason: a guide to English verse by John Hollander
Yoga and the Hindu Tradition by Jean Varenne, translated by Derek Coltman
Buddhism: a history by Noble Ross Reat
Brazilian Poetry edited by Emanuel Brasil and William Jay Smith
A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Bertrand Mathieu
Love and the Misfortune Cookie poetry manuscript by Tim Donnelly
The Maya 5th edition, by Michael D. Coe
La Capital: the biography of Mexico City by Jonathan Kandell
March - April
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry edited by Ed Ochester and Peter Oresick
The Power Game: how Washington works by Hedrick Smith
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz, translated by J. M. Cohen
The Fate of the Elephant by Douglas H. Chadwick
Solution Passage: poems, 1978 - 1981 by Clark Coolidge
Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, edited by Nathaniel Tarn, translations by Anthony Kerrigan, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reed, and Nathaniel Tarn
Earthlight by Andre Breton, translated by Bill Zavatsky and Zack Rogow
Technicians of the Sacred: a range of poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania edited by Jerome Rothenberg
May - July
Things We Need: two stories by Chris Schneider
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter and Philip Mead
The Rape of the Nile: tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt by Brian M. Fagan
Homophobia: a weapon of sexism by Suzanne Pharr
New and Selected Poems by Philip Levine
In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Manner ‘Music’ by Charles Reznikoff
The Autobiography and other writings by Benjamin Franklin, edited by L. Jesse Lemisch
An Autobiographical Novel by Kenneth Rexroth
Concrete Poetry: a world view edited by Mary Ellen Solt
A History of Writing by Albertine Gaur
August - October
I Smell Esther Williams and other stories by Mark Leyner
Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life By Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Florida three novels by Kathy Acker
Mars: the story of the red planet by Peter Cattermole
Stonehenge Complete by Christopher Chippindale
Euripides’ Medea by Euripides, translated by Brendan Kennelly
Tuning by David Antin
What it means to be avant-garde by David Antin
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey by Chris Burden
November - December
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
Collected Poems, 1948 - 1984 by Derek Walcott
Gilgamesh translated from the Sin-lequi-unninni version by John Gardner and John Maier, with Richard A. Henshaw
Equal in Desire by Clive Matson
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Best American Poetry 1995 edited by Richard Howard; series editor: David Lehman
The Elements of Yoga by Godfrey Devereux
The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms edited by Ron Padgett
Rhyme’s Reason: a guide to English verse by John Hollander
Yoga and the Hindu Tradition by Jean Varenne, translated by Derek Coltman
Buddhism: a history by Noble Ross Reat
Monday, July 17, 2017
Titles Read in 1995
January
Night Shift at the Crucifix Factory by Philip Dacey
Dropping the Bow: poems from ancient India translations by Andrew Schelling
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
February
Windows / Walls / Yard / Ways : (lines squared / paths worlds / backwards / sight by Larry Eigner, edited by Robert Grenier
Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald
The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
Symposium of the Whole: a range of discourse toward an Ethnopoetics edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg
March - May
Rescue the Dead by David Ignatow
Facing the Tree by David Ignatow
What Binds Us to This World by Robert Cording
The Confessions of St Augustine by St Augustine, translated by Rex Warner
The Infinite Moment: poems from ancient Greek translated by Sam Hamill
At Last We Enter Paradise by Richard Jones
Old Snow by Bei Dao, translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Best American Poetry 1994 edited by A. R. Ammons; series editors: David Lehman
A Perfect Time by Richard Jones
Complete Poems by Li Ch’ing Chao, translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Lake Effect Country by A. R. Ammons
Worldly Hopes by A. R. Ammons
The Sea and the Honeycomb: a book of tiny poems edited by Robert Bly
June - July
The Poetry Reading: a contemporary compendium on language and performance by Stephen Vincent and Ellen Zweig
In the American Tree edited by Ron Silliman
Calendar of Dust by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Corpse and Mirror by John Yau
To the Center of the Earth by Michael Fried
August
The Palm at the End of the Mind: selected poems and a play by Wallace Stevens, edited by Holly Stevens
Coming Out: an anthology of international gay and lesbian writings edited by Stephan Likosky
What Work Is by Philip Levine
Prayers at 3 a.m.: poems, songs, chants, and prayers for the middle of the night edited by Phil Cousineau
Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover’s Hand by Martin Espada
Every War Must End by Fred Charles Ikle
Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff
The Temple by Stephen Spender
September - November
New Poems: The Other Part (1908) by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow
ERT!: Not Available Comics by Matt Feazell
Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Walter Starkie
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, translated by John Nathan
A Different Mirror: a history of multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
The Trouble with Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons
Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu
Pocket Meteors: the Complete Works of Amy Kashiwabara, vol. II by Amy Kashiwabara
Testimony, vol. 1: The United States (1885 -1915) by Charles Reznikoff
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe
Soulstorm: stories by Clarice Lispector, translated by Alexis Levitin
Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos, translated by Ralph Edward Dimmick
December
The Lives of a Cell: notes of a biology watcher by Lewis Thomas
The Power of Language by Francis Ponge, translated by Serge Gavronsky
Venture to the Interior by Laurens van der Post
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, translated by Helen Caldwell
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
No More Masks!: an anthology of twentieth-century American women poets edited by Florence Howe
Another Republic: 17 European and South American writers edited by Charles Simic and Mark Strand
Sun Songs: creation myths from around the world edited by Raymond Van Over
We Say No: chronicles, 1963 - 1991 by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried, et al
Night Shift at the Crucifix Factory by Philip Dacey
Dropping the Bow: poems from ancient India translations by Andrew Schelling
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
February
Windows / Walls / Yard / Ways : (lines squared / paths worlds / backwards / sight by Larry Eigner, edited by Robert Grenier
Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald
The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
Symposium of the Whole: a range of discourse toward an Ethnopoetics edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg
March - May
Rescue the Dead by David Ignatow
Facing the Tree by David Ignatow
What Binds Us to This World by Robert Cording
The Confessions of St Augustine by St Augustine, translated by Rex Warner
The Infinite Moment: poems from ancient Greek translated by Sam Hamill
At Last We Enter Paradise by Richard Jones
Old Snow by Bei Dao, translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Best American Poetry 1994 edited by A. R. Ammons; series editors: David Lehman
A Perfect Time by Richard Jones
Complete Poems by Li Ch’ing Chao, translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Lake Effect Country by A. R. Ammons
Worldly Hopes by A. R. Ammons
The Sea and the Honeycomb: a book of tiny poems edited by Robert Bly
June - July
The Poetry Reading: a contemporary compendium on language and performance by Stephen Vincent and Ellen Zweig
In the American Tree edited by Ron Silliman
Calendar of Dust by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Corpse and Mirror by John Yau
To the Center of the Earth by Michael Fried
August
The Palm at the End of the Mind: selected poems and a play by Wallace Stevens, edited by Holly Stevens
Coming Out: an anthology of international gay and lesbian writings edited by Stephan Likosky
What Work Is by Philip Levine
Prayers at 3 a.m.: poems, songs, chants, and prayers for the middle of the night edited by Phil Cousineau
Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover’s Hand by Martin Espada
Every War Must End by Fred Charles Ikle
Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff
The Temple by Stephen Spender
September - November
New Poems: The Other Part (1908) by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow
ERT!: Not Available Comics by Matt Feazell
Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Walter Starkie
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, translated by John Nathan
A Different Mirror: a history of multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
The Trouble with Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons
Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu
Pocket Meteors: the Complete Works of Amy Kashiwabara, vol. II by Amy Kashiwabara
Testimony, vol. 1: The United States (1885 -1915) by Charles Reznikoff
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe
Soulstorm: stories by Clarice Lispector, translated by Alexis Levitin
Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos, translated by Ralph Edward Dimmick
December
The Lives of a Cell: notes of a biology watcher by Lewis Thomas
The Power of Language by Francis Ponge, translated by Serge Gavronsky
Venture to the Interior by Laurens van der Post
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, translated by Helen Caldwell
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
No More Masks!: an anthology of twentieth-century American women poets edited by Florence Howe
Another Republic: 17 European and South American writers edited by Charles Simic and Mark Strand
Sun Songs: creation myths from around the world edited by Raymond Van Over
We Say No: chronicles, 1963 - 1991 by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried, et al
Friday, July 14, 2017
Titles Read in 1994
January
A Poets’ Work: the other side of poetry by Sam Hamill
Good Night, Paul by Robert Peters
Mary Diana Dodds, a Gentleman and a Scholar by Betty T. Bennett
Without Warning by Patricia Donegan
Closer by Dennis Cooper
Life’s Dominion: an argument about abortion, euthanasia, and individual freedom by Ronald Dworkin
February
Listening to Prozac: a psychiatrist explores antidepressant drugs and the remaking of the self by Peter D. Kramer
LSD: my problem chid: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science by Albert Hoffman, translated by Jonathan Ott
Beyond the Andes: my search for the origins of pre-Inca civilization by Pino Turolla
The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O’Daly
Interzone by William S. Burroughs, edited by James Grauerholz
The Pencil: a history of design and circumstance by Henry Petroski
March
Last Words by Antler
A Cat Is Watching: a look at the way cats see us by Roger Caras
A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane by Barry Yourgrau
America Revised: history schoolbooks in the twentieth century by Frances FitzGerald
Battle Report by Harvey Shapiro
Accidental Weather by Sherod Santos
Three Chinese Poets: translations of poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai [Li Po], and Du Fu [Tu Fu] by Vikram Seth
Shadowing the Ground by David Ignatow
Hotel Insomnia by Charles Simic
The Book of Gods and Devils by Charles Simic
The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic
Classic Ballroom Dances by Charles Simic
Charon’s Cosmology by Charles Simic
Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk by Charles Simic
Dismantling the Silence by Charles Simic
April - May
Ohitika Woman by Mary Brave Bird with Richard Erodes
Freedom’s in Sight by Alta
Letters to Women by Alta
No Visible Means of Support by Alta
I Am Not a Practicing Angel by Alta
The Man Who Shook Hands by Diane Wakoski
Androgyne, Mon Amour by Tennessee Williams
The Nature of Yearning by David Huddle
Jimmy’s Blues by James Baldwin
Issa: Cup of Tea Poems: selected haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue
The Knot by Alice Jones
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness by Bob Kaufman
The Clouds of That Country by Jack Anderson
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese translations by Kenneth Rexroth
Open Secret versions of Rumi by John Moyne and Coleman Barks
Poems of the Late T’ang translated by A. C. Graham
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
New Italian Poets edited by Dana Gioia and Michael Palma
Late Returns: a memoir of Ted Berrigan by Tom Clark
The Good, the Bad, and the Famous by Len Sherman
Natural Birth by Toi Derricotte
June
Waters / Places / A Time by Larry Eigner
Half a Bottle of Catsup by Ted Fleischman
A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein edited by Robert Bartlett Haas
Selected Poems by Larry Eigner
July - November
Postwar Polish Poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz
Captivity by Toi Derricotte
Ants Will Not Eat Your Fingers: a selection of traditional African poems edited by Leonard Doob
Sixty Poems of Martial in Translation by Martial, translated by Dudley Fitts
Revenge of the Apple by Alicia Portnoy
The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman, et al
Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz
Earthquake Weather by August Kleinzahler
The Ancient Rain: poems, 1956 - 1978 by Bob Kaufman, edited by Raymond Faye
The Minus Sign: selected poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, translated by Virginia de Araujo
Breathing by Mark O’Brien
The Women and the Men by Nikki Giovanni
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Collected Poems, 1909 - 1962 by T. S. Eliot
The White Album by Joan Didion
Bread edited by Jake Goodson
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
The Brethren: inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
On Being Blue: a philosophical inquiry by William Gass
December
Answer Song by David Trinidad
Transparence of the World by Jean Follain, translated by W. S. Merwin
Selected Poems and Translations, 1969 - 1991 by William Matthews
A Poets’ Work: the other side of poetry by Sam Hamill
Good Night, Paul by Robert Peters
Mary Diana Dodds, a Gentleman and a Scholar by Betty T. Bennett
Without Warning by Patricia Donegan
Closer by Dennis Cooper
Life’s Dominion: an argument about abortion, euthanasia, and individual freedom by Ronald Dworkin
February
Listening to Prozac: a psychiatrist explores antidepressant drugs and the remaking of the self by Peter D. Kramer
LSD: my problem chid: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science by Albert Hoffman, translated by Jonathan Ott
Beyond the Andes: my search for the origins of pre-Inca civilization by Pino Turolla
The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O’Daly
Interzone by William S. Burroughs, edited by James Grauerholz
The Pencil: a history of design and circumstance by Henry Petroski
March
Last Words by Antler
A Cat Is Watching: a look at the way cats see us by Roger Caras
A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane by Barry Yourgrau
America Revised: history schoolbooks in the twentieth century by Frances FitzGerald
Battle Report by Harvey Shapiro
Accidental Weather by Sherod Santos
Three Chinese Poets: translations of poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai [Li Po], and Du Fu [Tu Fu] by Vikram Seth
Shadowing the Ground by David Ignatow
Hotel Insomnia by Charles Simic
The Book of Gods and Devils by Charles Simic
The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic
Classic Ballroom Dances by Charles Simic
Charon’s Cosmology by Charles Simic
Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk by Charles Simic
Dismantling the Silence by Charles Simic
April - May
Ohitika Woman by Mary Brave Bird with Richard Erodes
Freedom’s in Sight by Alta
Letters to Women by Alta
No Visible Means of Support by Alta
I Am Not a Practicing Angel by Alta
The Man Who Shook Hands by Diane Wakoski
Androgyne, Mon Amour by Tennessee Williams
The Nature of Yearning by David Huddle
Jimmy’s Blues by James Baldwin
Issa: Cup of Tea Poems: selected haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue
The Knot by Alice Jones
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness by Bob Kaufman
The Clouds of That Country by Jack Anderson
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese translations by Kenneth Rexroth
Open Secret versions of Rumi by John Moyne and Coleman Barks
Poems of the Late T’ang translated by A. C. Graham
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
New Italian Poets edited by Dana Gioia and Michael Palma
Late Returns: a memoir of Ted Berrigan by Tom Clark
The Good, the Bad, and the Famous by Len Sherman
Natural Birth by Toi Derricotte
June
Waters / Places / A Time by Larry Eigner
Half a Bottle of Catsup by Ted Fleischman
A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein edited by Robert Bartlett Haas
Selected Poems by Larry Eigner
July - November
Postwar Polish Poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz
Captivity by Toi Derricotte
Ants Will Not Eat Your Fingers: a selection of traditional African poems edited by Leonard Doob
Sixty Poems of Martial in Translation by Martial, translated by Dudley Fitts
Revenge of the Apple by Alicia Portnoy
The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman, et al
Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz
Earthquake Weather by August Kleinzahler
The Ancient Rain: poems, 1956 - 1978 by Bob Kaufman, edited by Raymond Faye
The Minus Sign: selected poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, translated by Virginia de Araujo
Breathing by Mark O’Brien
The Women and the Men by Nikki Giovanni
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Collected Poems, 1909 - 1962 by T. S. Eliot
The White Album by Joan Didion
Bread edited by Jake Goodson
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
The Brethren: inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
On Being Blue: a philosophical inquiry by William Gass
December
Answer Song by David Trinidad
Transparence of the World by Jean Follain, translated by W. S. Merwin
Selected Poems and Translations, 1969 - 1991 by William Matthews
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Titles Read in 1993
January
A Full Heart by Edward Field
It Was Fever That Made the World by Jim Powell
An Anthology of New York Poets edited by Ron Padgett
Facing the Snow: visions of Tu Fu by Tu Fu, translations by Sam Hamill
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese translations by Kenneth Rexroth
Teachings by David Fisher
One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year translations by Kenneth Rexroth
The Triggering Town: lectures and essays on poetry and writing by Richard Hugo
Losers Weepers: an anthology of found poems by George Hitchcock
Open Poetry: four anthologies of expanded poems edited by Ronald Gross and George Quasha with Emmett Williams, John Robert Colombo, and Walter Lowenfels
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
Dark of the Moon by Sara Teasdale
Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale
Helen of Troy and other poems by Sara Teasdale
February - May
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski
The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology: selections from the American Book Awards, 1980 - 1990 edited by J. J. Phillips, Ishmael Reed, Gundars Strads, and Shawn Wong
One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems translated by Arthur Waley
Street Samurai by Julia Vinograd
Space by Clark Coolidge
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan
Stand Up, Friend, With Me by Edward Field
Counting Myself Lucky: selected poems, 1963 - 1992 by Edward Field
Mad Maria by Marcio Souza, translated by Thomas Colchie
Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: a memoir of Richard Brautigan by Keith Abbott
Revenge of the Lawn: stories, 1962 - 1970 by Richard Brautigan
The Wounded Breakfast by Russell Edson
The Childhood of an Equestrian by Russell Edson
American Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Kenneth Rexroth
Becoming a Man: half a life story by Paul Monette
The Hunt by Lyn Hejinian
An Atlas of the Difficult World: poems, 1988 - 1991 by Adrienne Rich
The Lotus Lovers: Tzu Yeh and Li Ch’ing Chao translated by Sam Hamill
Fade to Prompt by John Mason
Ocker by P. Inman
Dora, Doralina by Rachel de Queiroz, translated by Dorothy Scott Loos
New American Poets of the 90s edited by Jack Myers and Roger Weingarten
Once Out of Nature by Jim Simmerman
The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
Into the Heart: one man’s pursuit of love and knowledge among the Yanomama by Kenneth Good with David Chanoff
Poetry with an Edge edited by Neil Astley
The Whale and Other Uncollected Translations by Richard Wilbur
The Orchid Boat: women poets of China translations by Kenneth Rexroth
Edificio Sayonara by John Yau
The Poems of Catullus by Catullus, translated by Charles Martin
Travelling in the Family: selected poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, edited by Thomas Colchie and Mark Strand
Rapture by Susan Mitchell
The Stillness, the Dancing by Linda Bierds
June - July
The Landscape of Exile by Jay Griswold
The Contemporary World Poets edited by Donald Junkins
Contemporary Macedonian Poetry edited by Ewald Osers
Field Trips on the Rapid Transit by Jack Anderson
The Goodbyes by John Ash
Ceremonies: prose and poetry by Essex Hemphill
The Tokyo-Montana Express by Richard Brautigan
The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll
A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan
Dreaming of Babylon by Richard Brautigan
The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan
Out in the World: gay and lesbian life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok by Neil Miller
American Tongue and Cheek: a populist guide to our language by Jim Quinn
The Chalice and the Blade: our history, our future by Riane Eisler
The Branching Stairs by John Ash
Poems Before and After: collected English translations by Miroslav Holub
Kidstuff by William Talcott
Papua Pocket Poets vol. 1 - 22, (1967 - 1971), edited by Ulli Beier
The book of Nods by Jim Carroll
Papua Pocket Poets vol. 34 - 36, 39, 40, (1973) edited by Prithvindra Chakravarti
Beyond Paradise: poetry by lesbians and gay men editor uncredited
Battle for the Elephants by Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton
New and Selected Poems by Brendan Kennelly
A Small Light by Brendan Kennelly
The Sun Placed in the Abyss and Other Texts by Francis Ponge, translated by Serge Gavronsky
The Gay Decades: from Stonewall to the present: the people and events that shaped gay lives by Leigh Rutledge
The People Rising: the campaign against the Bork nomination by Michael Pertschuk and Wendy Schaetzel
The City in Which I Love You by Li-Young Lee
August
Family Values: two moms and their son by Phyllis Burke
Vanishing Lung Syndrome by Miroslav Holub, translated by David Young and Dana Habova
Calafia: the California poetry edited by Ishmael Reed
Anthology of L. A. Poets edited by Charles Bukowski, Neeli Cherry, and Paul Vangelisti
The Culture of Desire: paradox and perversity in gay lives today by Frank Browning
Eight Little Piggies: reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
Blue Boys: poems by Philebus, Edmund John, Cathbert Wright edited by Paul I. Webb
Wonderful Life: the Burgess shale and the nature of history by Stephen Jay Gould
John by Ron Schrieber
Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down by Charles Reznikoff
Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction by Martin Espada
Bright Moon, Perching Birds by Li Po and Tu Fu, translations by J. P. Seaton and James Cryer
Disbelief by John Ash
September
Queer in America: sex, the media, and the closets of power by Michelangelo Signorile
The Burnt Pages by John Ash
The Magic World: American Indian songs and poems edited by William Brandon
Impresario: Malcolm McLaren and the British New Wave by Paul Taylor
The Cell by Lyn Hejinian
The Sacred Path: spells, prayers, and power songs of the American Indians edited by John Bierhorst
Song of the Sky: versions of Native American songs and poems by Brian Swann
Self-Made by Florence Elon
October - December
The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff, vol. 1: 1918 - 1936 by Charles Reznikoff, edited by Seamus Cooney
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit by Charles Bukowski
Coast to Coast by Bruce Bawer
My Alexandria by Mark Doty
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
In the Absence of the Sacred: the failure of technology and the survival of the Indian nations by Jerry Mander
Frisk by Dennis Cooper
Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
Gay Ideas: outing and other controversies by Richard D. Mohr
Bully for Brontosaurus: reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
Styrofoam Ghosts by Julia Vinograd
Heartlands: a gay man’s odyssey across America by Darrell Yates Rist
The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff, vol. 2: poems, 1937 - 1975 by Charles Reznikoff, edited by Seamus Cooney
The Best American Poetry 1993 edited by Louise Gluck; series editor: David Lehman
Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
This Earth, That Sky by Manuel Bandeira, translated by Candace Slater
Collected Poems by Paul Goodman, edited by Taylor Stoehr
Possession: a romance by A. S. Byatt
A Full Heart by Edward Field
It Was Fever That Made the World by Jim Powell
An Anthology of New York Poets edited by Ron Padgett
Facing the Snow: visions of Tu Fu by Tu Fu, translations by Sam Hamill
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese translations by Kenneth Rexroth
Teachings by David Fisher
One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year translations by Kenneth Rexroth
The Triggering Town: lectures and essays on poetry and writing by Richard Hugo
Losers Weepers: an anthology of found poems by George Hitchcock
Open Poetry: four anthologies of expanded poems edited by Ronald Gross and George Quasha with Emmett Williams, John Robert Colombo, and Walter Lowenfels
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
Dark of the Moon by Sara Teasdale
Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale
Helen of Troy and other poems by Sara Teasdale
February - May
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski
The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology: selections from the American Book Awards, 1980 - 1990 edited by J. J. Phillips, Ishmael Reed, Gundars Strads, and Shawn Wong
One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems translated by Arthur Waley
Street Samurai by Julia Vinograd
Space by Clark Coolidge
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan
Stand Up, Friend, With Me by Edward Field
Counting Myself Lucky: selected poems, 1963 - 1992 by Edward Field
Mad Maria by Marcio Souza, translated by Thomas Colchie
Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: a memoir of Richard Brautigan by Keith Abbott
Revenge of the Lawn: stories, 1962 - 1970 by Richard Brautigan
The Wounded Breakfast by Russell Edson
The Childhood of an Equestrian by Russell Edson
American Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Kenneth Rexroth
Becoming a Man: half a life story by Paul Monette
The Hunt by Lyn Hejinian
An Atlas of the Difficult World: poems, 1988 - 1991 by Adrienne Rich
The Lotus Lovers: Tzu Yeh and Li Ch’ing Chao translated by Sam Hamill
Fade to Prompt by John Mason
Ocker by P. Inman
Dora, Doralina by Rachel de Queiroz, translated by Dorothy Scott Loos
New American Poets of the 90s edited by Jack Myers and Roger Weingarten
Once Out of Nature by Jim Simmerman
The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
Into the Heart: one man’s pursuit of love and knowledge among the Yanomama by Kenneth Good with David Chanoff
Poetry with an Edge edited by Neil Astley
The Whale and Other Uncollected Translations by Richard Wilbur
The Orchid Boat: women poets of China translations by Kenneth Rexroth
Edificio Sayonara by John Yau
The Poems of Catullus by Catullus, translated by Charles Martin
Travelling in the Family: selected poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, edited by Thomas Colchie and Mark Strand
Rapture by Susan Mitchell
The Stillness, the Dancing by Linda Bierds
June - July
The Landscape of Exile by Jay Griswold
The Contemporary World Poets edited by Donald Junkins
Contemporary Macedonian Poetry edited by Ewald Osers
Field Trips on the Rapid Transit by Jack Anderson
The Goodbyes by John Ash
Ceremonies: prose and poetry by Essex Hemphill
The Tokyo-Montana Express by Richard Brautigan
The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll
A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan
Dreaming of Babylon by Richard Brautigan
The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan
Out in the World: gay and lesbian life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok by Neil Miller
American Tongue and Cheek: a populist guide to our language by Jim Quinn
The Chalice and the Blade: our history, our future by Riane Eisler
The Branching Stairs by John Ash
Poems Before and After: collected English translations by Miroslav Holub
Kidstuff by William Talcott
Papua Pocket Poets vol. 1 - 22, (1967 - 1971), edited by Ulli Beier
The book of Nods by Jim Carroll
Papua Pocket Poets vol. 34 - 36, 39, 40, (1973) edited by Prithvindra Chakravarti
Beyond Paradise: poetry by lesbians and gay men editor uncredited
Battle for the Elephants by Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton
New and Selected Poems by Brendan Kennelly
A Small Light by Brendan Kennelly
The Sun Placed in the Abyss and Other Texts by Francis Ponge, translated by Serge Gavronsky
The Gay Decades: from Stonewall to the present: the people and events that shaped gay lives by Leigh Rutledge
The People Rising: the campaign against the Bork nomination by Michael Pertschuk and Wendy Schaetzel
The City in Which I Love You by Li-Young Lee
August
Family Values: two moms and their son by Phyllis Burke
Vanishing Lung Syndrome by Miroslav Holub, translated by David Young and Dana Habova
Calafia: the California poetry edited by Ishmael Reed
Anthology of L. A. Poets edited by Charles Bukowski, Neeli Cherry, and Paul Vangelisti
The Culture of Desire: paradox and perversity in gay lives today by Frank Browning
Eight Little Piggies: reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
Blue Boys: poems by Philebus, Edmund John, Cathbert Wright edited by Paul I. Webb
Wonderful Life: the Burgess shale and the nature of history by Stephen Jay Gould
John by Ron Schrieber
Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down by Charles Reznikoff
Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction by Martin Espada
Bright Moon, Perching Birds by Li Po and Tu Fu, translations by J. P. Seaton and James Cryer
Disbelief by John Ash
September
Queer in America: sex, the media, and the closets of power by Michelangelo Signorile
The Burnt Pages by John Ash
The Magic World: American Indian songs and poems edited by William Brandon
Impresario: Malcolm McLaren and the British New Wave by Paul Taylor
The Cell by Lyn Hejinian
The Sacred Path: spells, prayers, and power songs of the American Indians edited by John Bierhorst
Song of the Sky: versions of Native American songs and poems by Brian Swann
Self-Made by Florence Elon
October - December
The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff, vol. 1: 1918 - 1936 by Charles Reznikoff, edited by Seamus Cooney
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit by Charles Bukowski
Coast to Coast by Bruce Bawer
My Alexandria by Mark Doty
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
In the Absence of the Sacred: the failure of technology and the survival of the Indian nations by Jerry Mander
Frisk by Dennis Cooper
Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
Gay Ideas: outing and other controversies by Richard D. Mohr
Bully for Brontosaurus: reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
Styrofoam Ghosts by Julia Vinograd
Heartlands: a gay man’s odyssey across America by Darrell Yates Rist
The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff, vol. 2: poems, 1937 - 1975 by Charles Reznikoff, edited by Seamus Cooney
The Best American Poetry 1993 edited by Louise Gluck; series editor: David Lehman
Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
This Earth, That Sky by Manuel Bandeira, translated by Candace Slater
Collected Poems by Paul Goodman, edited by Taylor Stoehr
Possession: a romance by A. S. Byatt
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Titles Read in 1992
January
Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets edited by R. Parthasarathy
The Dinosaur Man: tales of madness and enchantment from the back ward by Susan Baur
Everybody Ought to Know edited by Ogden Nash
Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana
Modern Haiku vol. XXI no. 3, vol. XXII, no. 1 and 2, 1990 - 1991
Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1953: a compilation of original poetry published in magazines of the English-speaking world in 1952 editor-in-chief: Robert Thomas Moore
2-Rabbit, 7-Wind: poems from ancient Mexico retold from Nahuatl texts by Toni de Gerez
Frameless Windows, Squares of Lights by Cathy Song
Sunset in a Spider Web: Sijo poetry of ancient Korea adapted by Virginia Olsen Baron from translations by Chun Seuk Park
The Apple That Astonished Paris by Billy Collins
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Cricket Songs Japanese haiku translated by Harry Behn
More Cricket Songs Japanese haiku translated by Harry Behn
Fictions from the Self by Michael Burkard
Berkeley Street Cannibals by Julia Vinograd
In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian poems and ritual orations edited by John Bierhorst
A Vindication of the Rights of Whores edited by Gail Pheterson
In Other Words by May Swenson
The New Polish Poetry: a bilingual collection edited by Milne Holton and Paul Vangelisti
Slow Juggling by Karen Bodine
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Hand Over Heart: poems, 1981 - 1988 by David Trinidad
Questions About Angels by Billy Collins
A Hive of Bees by John Crompton
The Diary of “Helena Morley” translated and edited by Elizabeth Bishop
February
Yellow Light by Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Hank: the life of Charles Bukowski by Neeli Cherkovski
War All the Time: poems, 1981 - 1984 by Charles Bukowski
Naming Our Destiny: new and selected poems by June Jordan
The Making of a Poem by Stephen Spender
The Best American Poetry 1991 edited by Mark Strand; series editor: David Lehman
Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan
American Primitive by Mary Oliver
Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale
March
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
Sappho: a new translation by Sappho, translated by Mary Barnard
Sappho Poems and Fragments by Sappho, translated by Guy Davenport
The Songs of Sappho: in English translation by many poets editor uncredited, Peter Pauper Press
Sappho Fragments by Sappho, translated by Shern Williams
The Poems of Sappho by Sappho, translated by Suzy Q. Groden
Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt by Richard Brautigan
Best Poems of 1926 selected by Thomas Moult
The River of Heaven by Garrett Hongo
New Fairy Tales by Karel Capek and One More Thrown in For Good Measure by Karel Capek, translated by Dagmar Herman
Tango by Daniel Halpern
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald [edited text]
American Poetry Since 1970: Up Late edited by Andrei Codrescu
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: a short novel and three stories by Truman Capote
April
What It’s Like to Be a Flight Attendant by Elizabeth Rich
… So Little Time by Mike Hippler
Until You Are Dead: the book of executions in America by Frederick Drimmer
Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets translated and annotated by Willis Barnstone
The Death Notebooks by Anne Sexton
Child of Europe: a new anthology of East European poetry edited by Michael March
Black Hair by Gary Soto
Contemporary Finnish Poetry edited and translated by Herbert Lamas
May
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
The Water Inside the Water by Susan Mitchell
Splitting and Binding by Pattiann Rogers
Corpse Delectable by Danielle Willis
How to Become a Virgin by Quentin Crisp
Transformations by Anne Sexton
Mary Robinson: a president with a purpose by Fergus Finlay
Fighting Terms by Thom Gunn
Fade Out: the calamitous final days of MGM by Peter Bart
Parliament: the great British democracy swindle by Adam Lively
A Bill of Rights for Britain by Ronald Dworkin
Against the Wall by Julia Vinograd
June
Pizza Face, or The Hero of Suburbia by Ken Siman
The Sense of Movement by Thom Gunn
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
The Early Homosexual Rights Movement, 1861 - 1935 by John Lauritsen and David Thorstad
Words for Dr Y by Anne Sexton, edited by Linda Gray Sexton
45 Mercy Street by Anne Sexton, edited by Linda Gray Sexton
Close-Up: how to read the American city by Grandy Clay
Collected Shorter Poems by Ezra Pound
The Little School: tales of disappearance and survival in Argentina by Alicia Partnoy, translated by Alicia Partnoy with Lois Athey and Sandra Braunstein
Satan Says by Sharon Olds
Curzon in Love by Daniel Curzon
Bears Dancing in the Northern Air by Christiane Jacox Kyle
Amazons and Military Maids: women who dressed as men in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness by Julie Wheelwright
My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn
To the Air by Thom Gunn
Dogs in Lingerie by Danielle Willis
Popol Vuh: the great mythological book of the ancient May translated by Ralph Nelson
Chog: a gothic fable by Quentin Crisp
July
Against Religion by A. N. Wilson
Double Exposure: fiction into film by Joy Gould Boyum
Bricks and Anchors by Jon Longhi
Moly by Thom Gunn
How to Go to the Movies by Quentin Crisp
The Master Key by L. Frank Baum
Folks Tales for the General by Patrick Galvin
The American Amusement Park Industry by Judith A. Adams
An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry edited by Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil
The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds
The Father by Sharon Olds
August
The Fate of American Poetry by Jonathan Holden
Positives by Thom Gunn
Mandrakes by Thom Gunn
The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips
The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian exile’s story of return and revolution by Andrei Codrescu
Life of Python by George Perry
So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan
Twisted Sisters: a collection of bad girl art edited by Diane Noomin
The Expectations of Light by Pattiann Rogers
The Tattooed Lady in the Garden by Pattiann Rogers
Queer by William S. Burroughs
Poems, 1958 - 1980 by Pentti Saarikoski, translated by Anselm Hollo
The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds
I’m Tap Dancing by Geri DiGiorno
Diary Cows by Ronald Koertge
September
The Long Approach by Maxine Kumin
Nurture by Maxine Kumin
Rose by Li-young Lee
Jubiaba by Jorge Amado, translated by Margaret A. Neves
Cannibal Consciousness: street selections, 1976 - 1982 by Julia Vinograd
October
Wormwood Review vol. 23 (1983); vol. 27 - 29 (1987 - 1989) edited by Marvin Malone
Shaking the Pumpkin: traditional poetry of the Indian North Americans edited by Jerome Rothenberg
The Best American Poetry 1992 edited by Charles Simic; series editor: David Lehman
Contemporary Korean Poetry edited by Ko Won
November
The Passion According to G. H. by Clarice Lispector, translated by Ronald W. Sousa
Looking for Luck by Maxine Kumin
Scarlet and Mellow by Alfred Kreymborg
Anthology of Contemporary Latin American Poetry edited by Dudley Fitts
Collected Poems by C. P. Cavafy, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, edited by George Savidis
December
Wormwood Review v. 24 - 26 (1984 - 1986)
edited by Marvin Malone The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Queer Edward II by Derek Jarman
Fires: essays, poems, stories by Raymond Carver
Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets edited by R. Parthasarathy
The Dinosaur Man: tales of madness and enchantment from the back ward by Susan Baur
Everybody Ought to Know edited by Ogden Nash
Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana
Modern Haiku vol. XXI no. 3, vol. XXII, no. 1 and 2, 1990 - 1991
Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1953: a compilation of original poetry published in magazines of the English-speaking world in 1952 editor-in-chief: Robert Thomas Moore
2-Rabbit, 7-Wind: poems from ancient Mexico retold from Nahuatl texts by Toni de Gerez
Frameless Windows, Squares of Lights by Cathy Song
Sunset in a Spider Web: Sijo poetry of ancient Korea adapted by Virginia Olsen Baron from translations by Chun Seuk Park
The Apple That Astonished Paris by Billy Collins
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Cricket Songs Japanese haiku translated by Harry Behn
More Cricket Songs Japanese haiku translated by Harry Behn
Fictions from the Self by Michael Burkard
Berkeley Street Cannibals by Julia Vinograd
In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian poems and ritual orations edited by John Bierhorst
A Vindication of the Rights of Whores edited by Gail Pheterson
In Other Words by May Swenson
The New Polish Poetry: a bilingual collection edited by Milne Holton and Paul Vangelisti
Slow Juggling by Karen Bodine
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Hand Over Heart: poems, 1981 - 1988 by David Trinidad
Questions About Angels by Billy Collins
A Hive of Bees by John Crompton
The Diary of “Helena Morley” translated and edited by Elizabeth Bishop
February
Yellow Light by Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Hank: the life of Charles Bukowski by Neeli Cherkovski
War All the Time: poems, 1981 - 1984 by Charles Bukowski
Naming Our Destiny: new and selected poems by June Jordan
The Making of a Poem by Stephen Spender
The Best American Poetry 1991 edited by Mark Strand; series editor: David Lehman
Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan
American Primitive by Mary Oliver
Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale
March
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
Sappho: a new translation by Sappho, translated by Mary Barnard
Sappho Poems and Fragments by Sappho, translated by Guy Davenport
The Songs of Sappho: in English translation by many poets editor uncredited, Peter Pauper Press
Sappho Fragments by Sappho, translated by Shern Williams
The Poems of Sappho by Sappho, translated by Suzy Q. Groden
Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt by Richard Brautigan
Best Poems of 1926 selected by Thomas Moult
The River of Heaven by Garrett Hongo
New Fairy Tales by Karel Capek and One More Thrown in For Good Measure by Karel Capek, translated by Dagmar Herman
Tango by Daniel Halpern
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald [edited text]
American Poetry Since 1970: Up Late edited by Andrei Codrescu
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: a short novel and three stories by Truman Capote
April
What It’s Like to Be a Flight Attendant by Elizabeth Rich
… So Little Time by Mike Hippler
Until You Are Dead: the book of executions in America by Frederick Drimmer
Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets translated and annotated by Willis Barnstone
The Death Notebooks by Anne Sexton
Child of Europe: a new anthology of East European poetry edited by Michael March
Black Hair by Gary Soto
Contemporary Finnish Poetry edited and translated by Herbert Lamas
May
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
The Water Inside the Water by Susan Mitchell
Splitting and Binding by Pattiann Rogers
Corpse Delectable by Danielle Willis
How to Become a Virgin by Quentin Crisp
Transformations by Anne Sexton
Mary Robinson: a president with a purpose by Fergus Finlay
Fighting Terms by Thom Gunn
Fade Out: the calamitous final days of MGM by Peter Bart
Parliament: the great British democracy swindle by Adam Lively
A Bill of Rights for Britain by Ronald Dworkin
Against the Wall by Julia Vinograd
June
Pizza Face, or The Hero of Suburbia by Ken Siman
The Sense of Movement by Thom Gunn
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
The Early Homosexual Rights Movement, 1861 - 1935 by John Lauritsen and David Thorstad
Words for Dr Y by Anne Sexton, edited by Linda Gray Sexton
45 Mercy Street by Anne Sexton, edited by Linda Gray Sexton
Close-Up: how to read the American city by Grandy Clay
Collected Shorter Poems by Ezra Pound
The Little School: tales of disappearance and survival in Argentina by Alicia Partnoy, translated by Alicia Partnoy with Lois Athey and Sandra Braunstein
Satan Says by Sharon Olds
Curzon in Love by Daniel Curzon
Bears Dancing in the Northern Air by Christiane Jacox Kyle
Amazons and Military Maids: women who dressed as men in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness by Julie Wheelwright
My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn
To the Air by Thom Gunn
Dogs in Lingerie by Danielle Willis
Popol Vuh: the great mythological book of the ancient May translated by Ralph Nelson
Chog: a gothic fable by Quentin Crisp
July
Against Religion by A. N. Wilson
Double Exposure: fiction into film by Joy Gould Boyum
Bricks and Anchors by Jon Longhi
Moly by Thom Gunn
How to Go to the Movies by Quentin Crisp
The Master Key by L. Frank Baum
Folks Tales for the General by Patrick Galvin
The American Amusement Park Industry by Judith A. Adams
An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry edited by Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil
The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds
The Father by Sharon Olds
August
The Fate of American Poetry by Jonathan Holden
Positives by Thom Gunn
Mandrakes by Thom Gunn
The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips
The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian exile’s story of return and revolution by Andrei Codrescu
Life of Python by George Perry
So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan
Twisted Sisters: a collection of bad girl art edited by Diane Noomin
The Expectations of Light by Pattiann Rogers
The Tattooed Lady in the Garden by Pattiann Rogers
Queer by William S. Burroughs
Poems, 1958 - 1980 by Pentti Saarikoski, translated by Anselm Hollo
The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds
I’m Tap Dancing by Geri DiGiorno
Diary Cows by Ronald Koertge
September
The Long Approach by Maxine Kumin
Nurture by Maxine Kumin
Rose by Li-young Lee
Jubiaba by Jorge Amado, translated by Margaret A. Neves
Cannibal Consciousness: street selections, 1976 - 1982 by Julia Vinograd
October
Wormwood Review vol. 23 (1983); vol. 27 - 29 (1987 - 1989) edited by Marvin Malone
Shaking the Pumpkin: traditional poetry of the Indian North Americans edited by Jerome Rothenberg
The Best American Poetry 1992 edited by Charles Simic; series editor: David Lehman
Contemporary Korean Poetry edited by Ko Won
November
The Passion According to G. H. by Clarice Lispector, translated by Ronald W. Sousa
Looking for Luck by Maxine Kumin
Scarlet and Mellow by Alfred Kreymborg
Anthology of Contemporary Latin American Poetry edited by Dudley Fitts
Collected Poems by C. P. Cavafy, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, edited by George Savidis
December
Wormwood Review v. 24 - 26 (1984 - 1986)
edited by Marvin Malone The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Queer Edward II by Derek Jarman
Fires: essays, poems, stories by Raymond Carver
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Titles Read in 1991
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
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
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]
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