Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Titles Read in 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]