I teach for a living. I teach like hell. 70 hour weeks if not more. Summer's replenishment; this summer -- three months long -- replenishing plentiful...
Poetry books I've read and vigorously recommend:
Steal Away: Selected and new poems, C.D. Wright
Gone, Fanny Howe
Science & Steepleflower, Forrest Gander
Playing Bodies, Bob Perelman & Francie Shaw
Self Portrait, John Perlman
Muse & Drudge, Harryette Mullen
Konfessions of An Elizabethan Dancer, bpNichol
To Tell the Lamp, Lisa Lubasch
Other poetry books I've read:
Drawn & Quartered, Robert Creeley & Archie Rand
Black Dog Songs, Lisa Jarnot
before, during & after, Hal Sirowitz
The Human Abstract, Elizabeth Willis
The Pond at Cape May Point, Burt Kimmelman & Fred Caruso
To Give It Up, Pam Rehm
Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Franz Wright
Musaics, Burt Kimmelman
San Francisco Blues, Jack Kerouac
The Beforelife, Franz Wright
Drawing on the Wall, Harriet Zinnes
Poetry books I've started:
Sleeping with the Dictionary, Harryette Mullen
Up to Speed, Rae Armantrout
Macular Hole, Catherine Wagner
The Little Door Slides Back, Jeff Clark
Behave, Steve Tills. I haven't been able to get past Rants 67 & 69 yet. I read the fuckers over and over -- aloud, always aloud. And LOUD. They make me laugh, cry, seethe... They make me want to read, as per Richard Lopez, more Catulus. I sense that these rants are something you got fully into -- emotion, unabashed intellect, subconscious, Tills' jazzy/punk ear, Tills' ribald humor...
What have you read this summer? What are you reading now?
Posted by: Kim Dorman | September 03, 2004 at 12:40 PM
Posted by: Scott | September 03, 2004 at 06:42 AM
Posted by: David Nemeth | September 03, 2004 at 06:25 AM