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
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
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]
Saturday, July 08, 2017
Titles Read in 1989
January
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Green Fuse vol. 9
Sonoma Mandala 1988 the Sonoma State University literary annual
OUT/LOOK: The National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly Fall 1988
X-Factor #39, by Chris Claremont
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Black Mondays: worst decisions of the Supreme Court by Joel D. Joseph
Our Time Has Come: a delegate’s diary of Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign by Lucius J. Barker
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
We Are Your Sons: the legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg by Robert and Michael Meeropol
February
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
An Almost Perfect Person a play by Judith Ross
On Golden Pond a play by Ernest Thompson
Discos and Democracy: China in the throes of reform by Orville Schell
A World Treasury of Oral Poetry edited by Ruth Finnegan
March
Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning by Alice Walker
Necessities by Richard Speakes
Hannah’s Travel by Richard Speakes
The Answering Voice: one hundred love lyrics by women edited by Sara Teasdale
Other Men’s Flowers edited by A. P. Wavell
Invitation to an Inquest by Walter and Miriam Schneir
Bent a play by Martin Sherman
A Walk in the Woods a play by Lee Blessing
April
Breaking the Code a play by Hugh Whitemore
Elquest: Siege at Blue Mountain by Wendy and Richard Pini
Haiku Poetry vol. 1, by James Hackett
New Directions 52 edited by James Laughlin
Loon #10/11. The Japan Issue. edited by D. L. Emblen, Richard Speakes, Richard Welin
The Hand That Cradles the Rock by Rita Mae Brown
May - September
Zuni Fairy Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing
Deaf in America: voices from a culture by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman
Liberty Under Siege: American politics, 1976 - 1988 by Walter Karp
Ground Zero by Andrew Holleran
Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
Nature of Australia by John Vandenbeld
Blue Unicorn October 1988
Antioch Review Winter 1989
Paper Boy by David Huddle
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: new and selected poems by Maxine Kumin
The Acrobat Is Nervous What If They Want Her to Sing: Mendocino County poets-in-the-Schools
Tracks in the Widest Orbit by James H. Montrose
Children of War by Roger Rosenblatt
Where the Spirits Dwell: an odyssey in the jungle of New Guinea by Tobias Schneebaum
Rich Rewards by Alice Adams
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by D. Manus Pinkwater
Where You’ll Find Me stories by Ann Beattie
Another Country by James Baldwin
Forced Entries: the downtown diaries, 1971 - 1973 by Jim Carroll
The Yellow Wind by David Grossman
Guns Don’t Die — People Do by Pete Shields
Daughters of the Country: the women of the fur traders and mountain men by Walter O’Meara
Vampires, Burial, and Death: folklore and reality by Paul Barber
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
First Leaves 1989, the SRJC literary annual, edited by Richard Speakes, Glenn Ingersoll, et al
The Male Muse: a gay anthology edited by Ian Young
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Poetry May, June, and July 1989
Paris Review #112, Fall 1989
Personae non Gratae by Paul Mariah
This Light Will Spread: selected poems, 1960 - 1975 by Paul Mariah
October - December
The Zombie Pit stories by Sam D’Allesandro
The Indispensable Writer’s Guide: how to succesfully build your writing career for maximum financial reward and satisfaction by Scott Edelstein
Love Stories for the Time Being edited by Genie D. Chipps and Bill Henderson
On Bended Knee: the press and the Regan presidency by Mark Hertsgaard
Soul in Exile: lives of a Palestinian revolutionary by Fawav Turki
Nothing to Declare: memoirs of a woman travelling alone by Mary Morris
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford
Poems, 1946 - 1983 by Werner Aspenstrom, translations by Don Emblen
The Stone no. 14, 1985, edited by Rich Jorgensen
Through the Forest: new and selected poems by David Wagoner
Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
Selected Poems by Louis Simpson
The New Yorker October 23, 1989
Compulsive Killers: the story of multiple murder by Elliott Leyton
Selected Poems, 1928 - 1958 by Stanley Kunitz
Headlands Rising by Robert Krieger
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
Poetry September 1989
Green Fuse vol. 11, 1989
Loon #6, June 1976
The Red Book edited by Gerrye Payne
The Music of What Happens: poems that tell stories edited by Paul B. Janeczko
Selected Poems by Mark Strand
The Complete Poems, 1927 - 1979 by Elizabeth Bishop
The Poet’s Story edited by Howard Moss
Sudden Fiction: American short short stories edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas
Antioch Review Summer 1989
The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor Van den Heuvel
Merchants of Death: the American tobacco industry by Larry C. White
[corrections made 12 July 2017]
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Green Fuse vol. 9
Sonoma Mandala 1988 the Sonoma State University literary annual
OUT/LOOK: The National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly Fall 1988
X-Factor #39, by Chris Claremont
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Black Mondays: worst decisions of the Supreme Court by Joel D. Joseph
Our Time Has Come: a delegate’s diary of Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign by Lucius J. Barker
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
We Are Your Sons: the legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg by Robert and Michael Meeropol
February
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
An Almost Perfect Person a play by Judith Ross
On Golden Pond a play by Ernest Thompson
Discos and Democracy: China in the throes of reform by Orville Schell
A World Treasury of Oral Poetry edited by Ruth Finnegan
March
Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning by Alice Walker
Necessities by Richard Speakes
Hannah’s Travel by Richard Speakes
The Answering Voice: one hundred love lyrics by women edited by Sara Teasdale
Other Men’s Flowers edited by A. P. Wavell
Invitation to an Inquest by Walter and Miriam Schneir
Bent a play by Martin Sherman
A Walk in the Woods a play by Lee Blessing
April
Breaking the Code a play by Hugh Whitemore
Elquest: Siege at Blue Mountain by Wendy and Richard Pini
Haiku Poetry vol. 1, by James Hackett
New Directions 52 edited by James Laughlin
Loon #10/11. The Japan Issue. edited by D. L. Emblen, Richard Speakes, Richard Welin
The Hand That Cradles the Rock by Rita Mae Brown
May - September
Zuni Fairy Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing
Deaf in America: voices from a culture by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman
Liberty Under Siege: American politics, 1976 - 1988 by Walter Karp
Ground Zero by Andrew Holleran
Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
Nature of Australia by John Vandenbeld
Blue Unicorn October 1988
Antioch Review Winter 1989
Paper Boy by David Huddle
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: new and selected poems by Maxine Kumin
The Acrobat Is Nervous What If They Want Her to Sing: Mendocino County poets-in-the-Schools
Tracks in the Widest Orbit by James H. Montrose
Children of War by Roger Rosenblatt
Where the Spirits Dwell: an odyssey in the jungle of New Guinea by Tobias Schneebaum
Rich Rewards by Alice Adams
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by D. Manus Pinkwater
Where You’ll Find Me stories by Ann Beattie
Another Country by James Baldwin
Forced Entries: the downtown diaries, 1971 - 1973 by Jim Carroll
The Yellow Wind by David Grossman
Guns Don’t Die — People Do by Pete Shields
Daughters of the Country: the women of the fur traders and mountain men by Walter O’Meara
Vampires, Burial, and Death: folklore and reality by Paul Barber
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
First Leaves 1989, the SRJC literary annual, edited by Richard Speakes, Glenn Ingersoll, et al
The Male Muse: a gay anthology edited by Ian Young
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Poetry May, June, and July 1989
Paris Review #112, Fall 1989
Personae non Gratae by Paul Mariah
This Light Will Spread: selected poems, 1960 - 1975 by Paul Mariah
October - December
The Zombie Pit stories by Sam D’Allesandro
The Indispensable Writer’s Guide: how to succesfully build your writing career for maximum financial reward and satisfaction by Scott Edelstein
Love Stories for the Time Being edited by Genie D. Chipps and Bill Henderson
On Bended Knee: the press and the Regan presidency by Mark Hertsgaard
Soul in Exile: lives of a Palestinian revolutionary by Fawav Turki
Nothing to Declare: memoirs of a woman travelling alone by Mary Morris
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford
Poems, 1946 - 1983 by Werner Aspenstrom, translations by Don Emblen
The Stone no. 14, 1985, edited by Rich Jorgensen
Through the Forest: new and selected poems by David Wagoner
Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
Selected Poems by Louis Simpson
The New Yorker October 23, 1989
Compulsive Killers: the story of multiple murder by Elliott Leyton
Selected Poems, 1928 - 1958 by Stanley Kunitz
Headlands Rising by Robert Krieger
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
Poetry September 1989
Green Fuse vol. 11, 1989
Loon #6, June 1976
The Red Book edited by Gerrye Payne
The Music of What Happens: poems that tell stories edited by Paul B. Janeczko
Selected Poems by Mark Strand
The Complete Poems, 1927 - 1979 by Elizabeth Bishop
The Poet’s Story edited by Howard Moss
Sudden Fiction: American short short stories edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas
Antioch Review Summer 1989
The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor Van den Heuvel
Merchants of Death: the American tobacco industry by Larry C. White
[corrections made 12 July 2017]
Wednesday, July 05, 2017
Titles Read in 2009
January
King Lear by William Shakespeare, a verse translation by Kent Richmond
New European Poets edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer, et al
A Wife for My Son by Ali Ghalem, translated by G. Kazolias
The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry edited by Andrew Schelling
Tilt, Literary Notes: a chapbook anthology edited by Rachel Mallino
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain by Oliver Sacks
Dreams from the Monster Factory: a tale of prison, redemption, and one woman’s fight to restore justice to all by Sunny Schwartz with David Boodell
The Canon: a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science by Natalie Angier
February - April
Amazon Poetry: an anthology of lesbian poetry edited by Joan Larkin and Elly Bulkin
King-Cat Comics and Stories #69, Sept 2008 by John Porcellino
Monkey Girl by Beth Lisick
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Real Stuff by Dennis Eichhorn, et al
The Jam Jar Lifeboat and other novelties exposed by Kay Ryan
Obedience by Joseph Hansen
Alex and Me: how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence — and formed a deep bond in the process by Irene M. Pepperberg
The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning by Joseph Hansen
A Country of Old Men by Joseph Hansen
House by Josh Simmons
Jessica Farm vol. 1 by Josh Simmons
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Deflowered: my life in Pansy Division by Jon Ginoli
All Passion Spent By Vita Sackville-West
Just So You Know #1, by Joey Alison Sayers
May - August
This Too Can Be Yours by Beth Lisick
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
Breathers #0, #1, #2, by Justin Madson
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: a journey into the feline heart by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Lazy Tongue by Terri Carrion
Free Lunch #41, Spring 2009, edited by Ron Offen
The Rest of Life: three novellas by Mary Gordon
My War with Brian by Ted Rall
Twentysomething: poems by Dinyar Godrej, Pat O’Brien, and Tim Neaves edited by Martin Humphries
Ocho #22, an online magazine edited by Miguel Murphy
Best of the Net 2008 judges: Dorianne Laux and Andy Mozina
The Primal Feast: food, sex, foraging, and love by Susan Allport
Omega the Unknown by Jonathan Lethem with Karl Rusnak and Farel Dalrymple
Planet Hulk by Greg Pak, et al
Invincible, vol. 1: Family Matters by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
Invincible, vol. 2: Eight Is Enough by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
Invincible, vol. 3: Perfect Strangers by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 4: Head of the Class by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 5: The Facts of Life by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
We Love Glenda So Much and A Change of Light by Julio Cortazar
Astro City: The Dark Age, vol. 1: Brothers and Other Strangers by Kurt Busiek and Brent Eric Anderson
Astro City: The Dark Age, vol. 2: Brothers in Arms by Kurt Busiek, and Brent Eric Anderson
Invincible, vol. 6: A Different World by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 7: Three’s Company by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 8: My Favorite Martian by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 9: Out of This World by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 10: Who’s the Boss? by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
How Sex Works: why we look, smell, taste, feel, and act the way we do by Sharon Moalem
Born Standing Up: a comic’s life by Steve Martin
Dreams from My Father: a story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama
Invincible, vol. 11: Happy Days by Robert Kirkman and Rya Ottley
Invincible, vol. 12: Still Standing by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome
Invincible, vol. 13: Growing Pains by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 14: The Viltrumite War by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Painter in a Savage Land: the strange saga of the first European artist in North America by Miles Harvey
Pictures and Passions: a history of homosexuality in the visual arts by James M. Saslow
The Moonball by Ursula Moray Williams
Enduring Seeds: Native American agriculture and plant preservation by Gary Paul Nabhan
My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
Scientific American June 2009, v. 300 no. 6
End Times / Tiempos Finales: tripas sangrientas de los demonios vol. 1 by Samuel Hiti
Tunnel Through Time by Lester del Rey
Random Family: love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry edited by Billy Collins
Verses That Hurt: pleasure and pain from the PoemFone poets edited by Jordan and Amy Trachtenberg
All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
All-Star Superman vol. 2, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
Titan Unveiled: Saturn’s mysterious moon explored by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton
The Nine: inside the secret world of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
The Source of Magic by Piers Anthony
Mao Zedong by Jonathan Spence
Luck by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton
Greek Lyric Poetry: a new translation by Sherod Santos
Billi 99 by Sarah E. Byam and Tim Sale
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
$tud by Phil Andros
City Come A Walkin’ by John Shirley
The Unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes — and why by Amanda Ripley
Catching Tigers in Red Weather by Andrew Demcak
Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington-Nugi Garimara
Life with My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh
September
The Plot: the secret story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner
The Unsinkable Bambi Lake: a fairy tale containing the dish on Cockettes, punks, and angels by Bambi Lake with Alvin Orloff
Stardeath by E. C. Tubb
Time and Materials: poems 1997 - 2005 by Robert Hass
Flight vol. 1, edited by Kazu Kibuishi
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Virgin and the Gipsy by D. H. Lawrence
Mindwalking 1937 - 2007 by Edward Mycue
Cahokia: ancient America’s great city on the Mississippi by Timothy R. Pauketat
You Ain’t No Dancer vol. 1, September 2005
Naked Came the Manatee a round robin novel by Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Elmore Leonard, Edna Buchanan, et al
Monkey Food: the complete “I Was Seven in ’75” collection by Ellen Forney
October - December
The American Reader: words that moved a nation Diane Ravitch, editor
Dark Banquet: blood and the curious lives of blood-feeding creatures by William A. Schutt Jr
Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman
Cosmic Engineers by Clifford D. Simak
The Boys and Their Baby by Larry Wolff
Everybody into the Pool: true tales by Beth Lisick
Angkor: the hidden glories by Michael Freeman and Roger Warner
Monsters by Ken Dahl
The Good Conscience by Carlos Fuentes
The River’s Tale: a year on the Mekong by Edward A. Gargun
Remembering the Walker and the Wheelchair: poems of grief and healing by Eva M. Schlesinger
The Mooring of Starting Out: the first five books of poetry by John Ashbery
Luv Ya Bunches by Lauren Myracle
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: the collected poetry of Jack Spicer edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
The Hidden Life of Deer: lessons from the natural world by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Preacher, vol. 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 2: Until the End of the World by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 3: Proud Americans by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
City Boy: my life in New York during the 1960s and ‘70s by Edmund White
Preacher, vol. 4: Ancient History by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: observations on not fitting in by Paisley Rekdal
Preacher, vol. 5: Dixie Fried by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 6: War in the Sun by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 7: Salvation by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 8: All Hell’s A-Coming by Garth Ennis and
Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 9: Alamo by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon
Old Shirts and New Skins by Sherman Alexie
Berkeley Poetry Review #39, 2008; Rhae Lynn Barnes, editor-in-chief
A Taste of Daring by Mariana Ruybalid
Daring to Write by Mariana Ruybalid
Dolphin Mysteries: unlocking the secrets of communication by Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff
Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance by Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Bread and Circuses #1 by Andy Hartzell
Too Small Comics by Bobby Madness
I Want Barbie by Katina Douveas
Free Lunch #42, Autumn 2009 edited by Ron Offen
Free Lunch #40, Autumn 2008 edited by Ron Offen
6 X 6 #16, Fall 2008
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Juicy Mother 2: how they met edited by Jennifer Camper
Medatrocity: stories from the Caffe Med a zine edited by Bird
Screaming with Joy: the life of Allen Ginsberg by Graham Caveney
Arkansas: three novellas by David Leavitt
In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian poetry in a new era edited by J. Kates
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino from the writings of Henry David Thoreau
Again: poems 1989 - 2000 by Joanne Kyger
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Zauberlinda the Wise Witch by Eva Katharine Gibson (as an ebook)
In America by Susan Sontag
Four Letter Worlds edited by Eric Stephenson
Gutter Boys by Alvin Orloff
Smiling Bears: a zookeeper explores the behavior and emotional life of bears by Else Poulsen
A History of the Devil by Gerald Messadie, translated by Mare Romano
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Father Goose, His Book verse by L. Frank Baum, pictures by W. W. Denslow
King Lear by William Shakespeare, a verse translation by Kent Richmond
New European Poets edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer, et al
A Wife for My Son by Ali Ghalem, translated by G. Kazolias
The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry edited by Andrew Schelling
Tilt, Literary Notes: a chapbook anthology edited by Rachel Mallino
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain by Oliver Sacks
Dreams from the Monster Factory: a tale of prison, redemption, and one woman’s fight to restore justice to all by Sunny Schwartz with David Boodell
The Canon: a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science by Natalie Angier
February - April
Amazon Poetry: an anthology of lesbian poetry edited by Joan Larkin and Elly Bulkin
King-Cat Comics and Stories #69, Sept 2008 by John Porcellino
Monkey Girl by Beth Lisick
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Real Stuff by Dennis Eichhorn, et al
The Jam Jar Lifeboat and other novelties exposed by Kay Ryan
Obedience by Joseph Hansen
Alex and Me: how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence — and formed a deep bond in the process by Irene M. Pepperberg
The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning by Joseph Hansen
A Country of Old Men by Joseph Hansen
House by Josh Simmons
Jessica Farm vol. 1 by Josh Simmons
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Deflowered: my life in Pansy Division by Jon Ginoli
All Passion Spent By Vita Sackville-West
Just So You Know #1, by Joey Alison Sayers
May - August
This Too Can Be Yours by Beth Lisick
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
Breathers #0, #1, #2, by Justin Madson
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: a journey into the feline heart by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Lazy Tongue by Terri Carrion
Free Lunch #41, Spring 2009, edited by Ron Offen
The Rest of Life: three novellas by Mary Gordon
My War with Brian by Ted Rall
Twentysomething: poems by Dinyar Godrej, Pat O’Brien, and Tim Neaves edited by Martin Humphries
Ocho #22, an online magazine edited by Miguel Murphy
Best of the Net 2008 judges: Dorianne Laux and Andy Mozina
The Primal Feast: food, sex, foraging, and love by Susan Allport
Omega the Unknown by Jonathan Lethem with Karl Rusnak and Farel Dalrymple
Planet Hulk by Greg Pak, et al
Invincible, vol. 1: Family Matters by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
Invincible, vol. 2: Eight Is Enough by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
Invincible, vol. 3: Perfect Strangers by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 4: Head of the Class by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 5: The Facts of Life by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
We Love Glenda So Much and A Change of Light by Julio Cortazar
Astro City: The Dark Age, vol. 1: Brothers and Other Strangers by Kurt Busiek and Brent Eric Anderson
Astro City: The Dark Age, vol. 2: Brothers in Arms by Kurt Busiek, and Brent Eric Anderson
Invincible, vol. 6: A Different World by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 7: Three’s Company by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 8: My Favorite Martian by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 9: Out of This World by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 10: Who’s the Boss? by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
How Sex Works: why we look, smell, taste, feel, and act the way we do by Sharon Moalem
Born Standing Up: a comic’s life by Steve Martin
Dreams from My Father: a story of race and inheritance by Barack Obama
Invincible, vol. 11: Happy Days by Robert Kirkman and Rya Ottley
Invincible, vol. 12: Still Standing by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome
Invincible, vol. 13: Growing Pains by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley
Invincible, vol. 14: The Viltrumite War by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley
Painter in a Savage Land: the strange saga of the first European artist in North America by Miles Harvey
Pictures and Passions: a history of homosexuality in the visual arts by James M. Saslow
The Moonball by Ursula Moray Williams
Enduring Seeds: Native American agriculture and plant preservation by Gary Paul Nabhan
My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
Scientific American June 2009, v. 300 no. 6
End Times / Tiempos Finales: tripas sangrientas de los demonios vol. 1 by Samuel Hiti
Tunnel Through Time by Lester del Rey
Random Family: love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry edited by Billy Collins
Verses That Hurt: pleasure and pain from the PoemFone poets edited by Jordan and Amy Trachtenberg
All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
All-Star Superman vol. 2, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
Titan Unveiled: Saturn’s mysterious moon explored by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton
The Nine: inside the secret world of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
The Source of Magic by Piers Anthony
Mao Zedong by Jonathan Spence
Luck by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton
Greek Lyric Poetry: a new translation by Sherod Santos
Billi 99 by Sarah E. Byam and Tim Sale
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
$tud by Phil Andros
City Come A Walkin’ by John Shirley
The Unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes — and why by Amanda Ripley
Catching Tigers in Red Weather by Andrew Demcak
Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington-Nugi Garimara
Life with My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone with Wendy Leigh
September
The Plot: the secret story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner
The Unsinkable Bambi Lake: a fairy tale containing the dish on Cockettes, punks, and angels by Bambi Lake with Alvin Orloff
Stardeath by E. C. Tubb
Time and Materials: poems 1997 - 2005 by Robert Hass
Flight vol. 1, edited by Kazu Kibuishi
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Virgin and the Gipsy by D. H. Lawrence
Mindwalking 1937 - 2007 by Edward Mycue
Cahokia: ancient America’s great city on the Mississippi by Timothy R. Pauketat
You Ain’t No Dancer vol. 1, September 2005
Naked Came the Manatee a round robin novel by Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Elmore Leonard, Edna Buchanan, et al
Monkey Food: the complete “I Was Seven in ’75” collection by Ellen Forney
October - December
The American Reader: words that moved a nation Diane Ravitch, editor
Dark Banquet: blood and the curious lives of blood-feeding creatures by William A. Schutt Jr
Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman
Cosmic Engineers by Clifford D. Simak
The Boys and Their Baby by Larry Wolff
Everybody into the Pool: true tales by Beth Lisick
Angkor: the hidden glories by Michael Freeman and Roger Warner
Monsters by Ken Dahl
The Good Conscience by Carlos Fuentes
The River’s Tale: a year on the Mekong by Edward A. Gargun
Remembering the Walker and the Wheelchair: poems of grief and healing by Eva M. Schlesinger
The Mooring of Starting Out: the first five books of poetry by John Ashbery
Luv Ya Bunches by Lauren Myracle
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: the collected poetry of Jack Spicer edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
The Hidden Life of Deer: lessons from the natural world by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Preacher, vol. 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 2: Until the End of the World by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 3: Proud Americans by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
City Boy: my life in New York during the 1960s and ‘70s by Edmund White
Preacher, vol. 4: Ancient History by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: observations on not fitting in by Paisley Rekdal
Preacher, vol. 5: Dixie Fried by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 6: War in the Sun by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 7: Salvation by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 8: All Hell’s A-Coming by Garth Ennis and
Steve Dillon
Preacher, vol. 9: Alamo by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon
Old Shirts and New Skins by Sherman Alexie
Berkeley Poetry Review #39, 2008; Rhae Lynn Barnes, editor-in-chief
A Taste of Daring by Mariana Ruybalid
Daring to Write by Mariana Ruybalid
Dolphin Mysteries: unlocking the secrets of communication by Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff
Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance by Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Bread and Circuses #1 by Andy Hartzell
Too Small Comics by Bobby Madness
I Want Barbie by Katina Douveas
Free Lunch #42, Autumn 2009 edited by Ron Offen
Free Lunch #40, Autumn 2008 edited by Ron Offen
6 X 6 #16, Fall 2008
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Juicy Mother 2: how they met edited by Jennifer Camper
Medatrocity: stories from the Caffe Med a zine edited by Bird
Screaming with Joy: the life of Allen Ginsberg by Graham Caveney
Arkansas: three novellas by David Leavitt
In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian poetry in a new era edited by J. Kates
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino from the writings of Henry David Thoreau
Again: poems 1989 - 2000 by Joanne Kyger
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Zauberlinda the Wise Witch by Eva Katharine Gibson (as an ebook)
In America by Susan Sontag
Four Letter Worlds edited by Eric Stephenson
Gutter Boys by Alvin Orloff
Smiling Bears: a zookeeper explores the behavior and emotional life of bears by Else Poulsen
A History of the Devil by Gerald Messadie, translated by Mare Romano
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Father Goose, His Book verse by L. Frank Baum, pictures by W. W. Denslow
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Titles Read in 2010
January - February
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 3: 1955 - 1956 by Charles M. Schulz
Tamawaca Folks: a summer comedy by L. Frank Baum writing as John Este Cooke
Tokyo Days: three short tales of an American in Japan by Chris Juricich
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 4: 1957 - 1958 by Charles M. Schulz
The Eternal Smile: three stories by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
The Trouble with Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian: the return to Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
Growing Up Absurd: problems of youth in the organized society by Paul Goodman
White By Law: the legal construction of race by Ian F. Haney Lopez
One Teacher in Ten: LGBT educators share their stories edited by Kevin Jennings
Rats: observations on the history and habitat of the city’s most unwanted inhabitants by Robert Sullivan
March
Young Avengers, vol. 2: Family Matters by Alan Heinberg
Taking on the System by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
The Greeks and Greek Love by James Davidson
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
The New Thing, vol. 1: Identity by Jim Higgins
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
April
One Minute Movies by Summer Brenner
A Fine Excess: 50 years of Beloit Poetry Journal
Exit Wounds a graphic novel by Rutu Modan
The Oldest Gay Couple in America by Gean Harwood
Cherry-Blossoms Japanese Haiku, series III. Peter Pauper Press
Crossing Centuries: the new generation in Russian poetry edited by John High
Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Sister and Brother: lesbians and gay men edited by Joan Nestle & John Preston
Outlands and Inlands by Lindy Hough
May
The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley
Beyond Bogota: diary of a drug war journalist in Colombia by Garry Leech
King-Cat Comics #70 by John Porcellino
Man and Microbes: disease and plague in history and modern times by Arno Karlen
Among the Great Apes by Paul Raffaele
In Silence: growing up hearing in a deaf world by Ruth Sidransky
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
June
Blood Strangers by Katherine A. Briccetti
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
The Royal Historian of Oz #1; a comic by Tommy Kovac and Andy Hirsch
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Language for a New Century edited by Chang, Handal, Shankar
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Assembly Required: notes from a deaf gay life by Raymond Luczak
July - August
Newave! the underground mini comix of the 1980s edited by Michael Dowers
A Single Hurt Color by Andrew Demcak
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
American Hunks by David L. Chapman & Brett Josef Grubisic
Almost Human: a journey into the world of baboons by Shirley C. Strum
A Garden of Peonies: Chinese poems in English by Henry H. Hart
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
Ex Machina by Brian Vaughn and Tony Harris
Caminante by John Oliver Simon
Cocktails by D. A. Powell
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Chasing the Sea: lost among the ghosts of empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell
Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover
Just So You Know #2, mini comic by Joey Alison Sayers
September
King-Cat Comics #71 by John Porcellino
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Curvature of Blue by Lucille Lang Day
Cliterally Speaking mini comic by April Thompson, et al
Notes on Conflict mini comic by Susie Cagle
We’ll Never Have Paris Spring 2010, vol. 6
The Frog Prince a comic by Lauren Skinner
Hello, My Name is Mary #1 and #2 by Mary Van Note
Retail Whore #1 and #2 by Amara Rinne
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Cathcart & Klein
Pass the Butterworms: remote journeys oddly rendered by Tim Cahill
The Garden Thrives: twentieth century African American poetry edited by Clarence Major
The Golden Ass by Apuleius, translated by Robert Graves
October - December
Culture Is Our Weapon by Patrick Neate and Damian Platt
Poetry Sept 2010
Berlin, Book Two: City of Smoke by Jason Lutes
Waterland by Graham Swift
From the Closet to the Courtroom by Carlos A. Ball
War Is Boring by David Axe and Matt Bors
Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard
In the Company of Crows and Ravens by Marzluff, Angell
My Alaskan Summer by Corinne Mucna
Imaginary Homework by Theo Ellsworth
The Blue Bear by Lynn Schooler
Sleeper Car by Theo Ellsworth
Flesh Games: a BDSM romp mini comic by Hortaya
Three a mini comics anthology edited by Robert Kirby
Beardfluff by Rembrand Le Compte
The Great Wave of Falling Rock by Josh Shalek
Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
Children of Nuggets booklet accompanying Rhino CD compilation
The Adventures of Unemployed Man by Erich Origen & Gan Golan
Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form by Matthea Harvey
Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
Songs of Jubilee by Sam Cornish
Fool for Love: new gay fiction edited by Lambert & Cochrane
A Round-Heeled Woman by Jane Juska
Unaccompanied Women by Jane Juska
Rising at 5 a.m. by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry edited by J. D. McClatchy
The Light in Ordinary Things edited by Friedman & Miller
This Is Your Country on Drugs by Ryan Grim
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Phantom Kangaroo #2
a collection of poetry & prose & photos a chapbook by Heidi E. Cooper
How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read
Employee of the Year, part I mini comic by Will Scovill & Jen Oaks
Being Dead by Jim Crace
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
Sequin Soul chapbook by Joan Jobe Smith
Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
Ultimate Galactus Trilogy by Warren Ellis, et al
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry edited by Alan Kaufman
Worse Than War by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
This Is Reggae Music booklet to 4 CD set
Sorry We’re Close by J. Tarin Towers
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 3: 1955 - 1956 by Charles M. Schulz
Tamawaca Folks: a summer comedy by L. Frank Baum writing as John Este Cooke
Tokyo Days: three short tales of an American in Japan by Chris Juricich
The Complete Peanuts, vol. 4: 1957 - 1958 by Charles M. Schulz
The Eternal Smile: three stories by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
The Trouble with Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian: the return to Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
Growing Up Absurd: problems of youth in the organized society by Paul Goodman
White By Law: the legal construction of race by Ian F. Haney Lopez
One Teacher in Ten: LGBT educators share their stories edited by Kevin Jennings
Rats: observations on the history and habitat of the city’s most unwanted inhabitants by Robert Sullivan
March
Young Avengers, vol. 2: Family Matters by Alan Heinberg
Taking on the System by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
The Greeks and Greek Love by James Davidson
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
The New Thing, vol. 1: Identity by Jim Higgins
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
April
One Minute Movies by Summer Brenner
A Fine Excess: 50 years of Beloit Poetry Journal
Exit Wounds a graphic novel by Rutu Modan
The Oldest Gay Couple in America by Gean Harwood
Cherry-Blossoms Japanese Haiku, series III. Peter Pauper Press
Crossing Centuries: the new generation in Russian poetry edited by John High
Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Sister and Brother: lesbians and gay men edited by Joan Nestle & John Preston
Outlands and Inlands by Lindy Hough
May
The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley
Beyond Bogota: diary of a drug war journalist in Colombia by Garry Leech
King-Cat Comics #70 by John Porcellino
Man and Microbes: disease and plague in history and modern times by Arno Karlen
Among the Great Apes by Paul Raffaele
In Silence: growing up hearing in a deaf world by Ruth Sidransky
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
June
Blood Strangers by Katherine A. Briccetti
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
The Royal Historian of Oz #1; a comic by Tommy Kovac and Andy Hirsch
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Language for a New Century edited by Chang, Handal, Shankar
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Assembly Required: notes from a deaf gay life by Raymond Luczak
July - August
Newave! the underground mini comix of the 1980s edited by Michael Dowers
A Single Hurt Color by Andrew Demcak
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
American Hunks by David L. Chapman & Brett Josef Grubisic
Almost Human: a journey into the world of baboons by Shirley C. Strum
A Garden of Peonies: Chinese poems in English by Henry H. Hart
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
Ex Machina by Brian Vaughn and Tony Harris
Caminante by John Oliver Simon
Cocktails by D. A. Powell
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Chasing the Sea: lost among the ghosts of empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell
Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover
Just So You Know #2, mini comic by Joey Alison Sayers
September
King-Cat Comics #71 by John Porcellino
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Curvature of Blue by Lucille Lang Day
Cliterally Speaking mini comic by April Thompson, et al
Notes on Conflict mini comic by Susie Cagle
We’ll Never Have Paris Spring 2010, vol. 6
The Frog Prince a comic by Lauren Skinner
Hello, My Name is Mary #1 and #2 by Mary Van Note
Retail Whore #1 and #2 by Amara Rinne
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Cathcart & Klein
Pass the Butterworms: remote journeys oddly rendered by Tim Cahill
The Garden Thrives: twentieth century African American poetry edited by Clarence Major
The Golden Ass by Apuleius, translated by Robert Graves
October - December
Culture Is Our Weapon by Patrick Neate and Damian Platt
Poetry Sept 2010
Berlin, Book Two: City of Smoke by Jason Lutes
Waterland by Graham Swift
From the Closet to the Courtroom by Carlos A. Ball
War Is Boring by David Axe and Matt Bors
Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard
In the Company of Crows and Ravens by Marzluff, Angell
My Alaskan Summer by Corinne Mucna
Imaginary Homework by Theo Ellsworth
The Blue Bear by Lynn Schooler
Sleeper Car by Theo Ellsworth
Flesh Games: a BDSM romp mini comic by Hortaya
Three a mini comics anthology edited by Robert Kirby
Beardfluff by Rembrand Le Compte
The Great Wave of Falling Rock by Josh Shalek
Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
Children of Nuggets booklet accompanying Rhino CD compilation
The Adventures of Unemployed Man by Erich Origen & Gan Golan
Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form by Matthea Harvey
Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
Songs of Jubilee by Sam Cornish
Fool for Love: new gay fiction edited by Lambert & Cochrane
A Round-Heeled Woman by Jane Juska
Unaccompanied Women by Jane Juska
Rising at 5 a.m. by Marc Elihu Hofstadter
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry edited by J. D. McClatchy
The Light in Ordinary Things edited by Friedman & Miller
This Is Your Country on Drugs by Ryan Grim
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Phantom Kangaroo #2
a collection of poetry & prose & photos a chapbook by Heidi E. Cooper
How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read
Employee of the Year, part I mini comic by Will Scovill & Jen Oaks
Being Dead by Jim Crace
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
Sequin Soul chapbook by Joan Jobe Smith
Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
Ultimate Galactus Trilogy by Warren Ellis, et al
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry edited by Alan Kaufman
Worse Than War by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
This Is Reggae Music booklet to 4 CD set
Sorry We’re Close by J. Tarin Towers
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Titles Read in 2011
January - April
Scott Pilgrim vol. 1 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Faster Than the Speed of Hope by Donna M. Lane
Two Lines: a journal of translation vol. 13: Masks. 2006
Scott Pilgrim vol. 2 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
The Force of a Feather: the search for a lost story of slavery and freedom by DeEtta Demaratus
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
I am secretly an important man by Steven Jesse Bernstein
Scott Pilgrim vol. 3 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Deep Ska booklet accompanying 4 CD set
When Even the Sky Hurts by Julia Vinograd
Scott Pilgrim vol. 4 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
The Complete Adventures of the Borrowers by Mary Norton
Poor Stainless: a Borrowers story by Mary Norton
Scott Pilgrim vol. 5 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Give Our Regards to the Atom Smashers: writers on comics edited by Sean Howe
The Borrowers Avenged by Mary Norton
Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? by Martin Gardner
Born to Run: a hidden tribe … by Christopher McDougall
Scott Pilgrim vol. 6 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
Lake Huron Winds poetry chapbook by Mel C. Thompson
I Love You Phillip Morris by Steve McVicker
Unpacking the Boxes: a memoir of a life in poetry by Donald Hall
The Beats: a graphic history by Harvey Pekar
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham
Ecco Anthology of International Poetry edited by Ilya Kaminsky
Travels with Lisbeth by Lars Eighner
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Shooting in the Wild by Chris Palmer
The Grandest of Lives: eye to eye with whales by Douglas Chadwick
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
X’ed Out by Charles Burns
May
God’s Man / Madman’s Drum / Wild Pilgrimage by Lynd Ward
The Salt Ecstasies by James L. White, intro by Mark Doty
Patty’s Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America by William Graebner
Ringworld’s Children by Larry Niven
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cometbus #54: In China with Green Day by Aaron Cometbus
Wishbone by Priscilla Lee
In Southern Light: trekking through Zaire and the Amazon by Alex Shoumatoff
June - September
The End of Major Combat Operatons by Nick McDonell
La Perdida by Jessica Abel
The Best American Comics 2007 edited by Chris Ware
Hot Stuff: a brief history of disco by John-Manuel Andriote
The Cave Painters by Gregory Curtis
The Fart Party by Julia Wertz
Far From Home short stories by Walter Tevis
Prelude to a Million Years / Song without Words / Vertigo by Lynd Ward
Godzilla on My Mind by William Tsutsui
Self-Evident Poems by Guy Bennett
Listening to Winter by Molly Fisk
Pluto: sentinel of the outer solar system by Barrie W. Jones
Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz
From Wonderland with Love: Danish comics edited by Steffen Maarup
The Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven
Shirtlifter #4 by Steve MacIsaac
Quarterly Review of Literature: contemporary poetry series IV: Wislawa Szymborska, Jane Hirshfield, et al
Three #2, edited by Robert Kirby
The World Split Open: four centuries of women poets edited by Louise Bernikow
The Unswept Path: contemporary American haiku edited by J. Brandi, D. Maloney
Kundalini: the evolutionary energy in man by Gopi Krishna
The Fart Party vol. 2 by Julia Wertz
The Commitment: love, sex, marriage, and my family by Dan Savage
Congress of the Animals a Frank book by Jim Woodring
Shedding Skins: four Sioux poets edited by Adrian C. Louis
Haiku Moment: an anthology of contemporary North American haiku edited by Bruce Ross
A Queer History of the United States by MIchael Bronski
Aunt Jane’s Nieces by L. Frank Baum
This Is Reggae Music: the story of Jamaica’s music by Lloyd Bradley
Role Models by John Waters
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda
The Complete Annotated Oz Squad, vol. 1 by Steve Ahlquist, et al
The Magic World: American Indian Songs and Poems edited by William Brandon
Tales of Magic Land 2: Seven Underground Kings and The Fiery God of the Marrans by Alexander Volkov, translated by Peter L. Blystone
The Complete Annotated Oz Squad, vol. 2 by Steve Ahlquist, et al
My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy by Robert Bly
Nothing Doing by Cid Corman
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine
Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai by Stan Sakai
The Grave Robber’s Daughter by Richard Sala
Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad by L. Frank Baum (as ebook)
Dolphin Diaries by Denise L. Herzing
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: 50 years of videogames by Harold Goldberg
Weathercraft: a Frank comic by Jim Woodring
Ebb and Flood #1, a mini comic by Brian Herrick
Elf World vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2011, a mini comic anthology edited by F. Vigneault
Astro City: Dark Age, part 2 by Kurt Busiek, et al
Estrus Collection, vol. 2, by Mari Naomi
My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Comic Book Guide to the Mission edited by Lauren Davis
Ordering the Storm: how to put together a book of poems edited by Susan Grimm
Kiss and Tell: a romantic resume, ages 0-22 by Mari Naomi
Wonder Tales edited by Marina Warner
Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine
The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot
Dancing with a Tiger: poems, 1941-1998 by Robert Friend
Tales of Magic Land 3: Yellow Fog and The Mystery fo the Deserted Castle by Alexander Volkov
October - December
Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake
Ogner Stump’s One Thousand Sorrows by A. Goldfarb
I’m Walking as Straight as I Can by Geri Jewell
Beautiful & Pointless: a guide to modern poetry by David Orr
Love Is the Reason: a Cavalcade of Boys story by Tim Fish
Lies Grown Ups Told Me: a comics anthology edited by Nomi Kane, Caitlin M., Jen Vaughn
Sweethearts by Emmett Williams
Luci’s Let Down by Marjee Chmiel & Sandra Lanza
My Dreaming Waking Life: 6 poets, 66 poems by Hofstadter, et al
Book of Boy Trouble, vol. 2: Born to Trouble edited by R. Kirby & D. Kelly
A Controversy of Poets edited by Robert Kelly and Paris Leary
Bonk by Mary Roach
The Duchess Who Wouldn’t Sit Down: an informal history of hospitality by Jesse Browner
Century of Clouds by Bruce Boone
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
Sidewalk Empire and Wish the World parts 1 & 2, mini comics by Eddie H. Ahn
The Bridge Project a comics anthology edited by Matt Leunig
Drunk and Disorderly: selected poems, 1978-2000 by Alan Catlin
Crack Comics #63
The Lights in the Sky Are Stars by Frederic Brown
Falling Sky by Julia Vinograd
Seventh Generation: contemporary native writing edited by Heather Hodgson
The Cute Manifesto by James Kochalka
The Believer #73: The Music Issue, July/Aug 2010
The Lampshade: a holocaust detective story by Mark Jacobson
Fox Bunny Funny by Andy Hartzell
Visit Teepee Town: native writings after the detours edited by Diane Glancy and Mark Nowak
Dead, She Said by Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson
Beast Begat Beast mini comic by James the Staton
Notes for My Body Double by Paul Guest
Radiant Silhouette: new & selected work, 1974 - 1988 by John Yau
Reading Comics: how graphic novels work and what they mean by Douglas Wolk
One More Theory about Happiness by Paul Guest
A Lifetime with Lions by George Adamson
Voices within the Ark edited by Schwarz, Rudolf
Auntie Mame: an irreverent escapade by Patrick Dennis
Mute by Raymond Luczak
Epigenetics: the ultimate mystery of inheritance by Richard C. Francis
Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell
How Music Works by John Powell
Thinger Dingers mini comic by J. T. Yost
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