Thanks Tom Beckett, Les, David Abel, Frank Sauce, and Dan Waber

Summer reading? In any season, I value the recommendations from friends. Here then is a list of books I will seek out this summer:

The Order of Things by Michel Foucault

What is Philosophy by Deleuze and Guattari

Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Wittgenstein

The Senses of Walden by Stanley Cavell

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

Vivas by Mairead Byrne
The Temperature of this Water by Ishle Yi-Park
Jigsaweyesore by Barbara DeCesare

Copia by Casey Kwang

Drafts by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Zettel by Wittgenstein

On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids by Josely Vianna Baptista (translated by Chris Daniels; Manifest Press)

Pen Chants or nth or 12 Spirit-like Impermanences by Lissa Wolsak (Roof)

The Theatre of the Ears by Valere Novarina (Sun & Moon)

The Holy Forest by Robin Blaser (Coach House)

Spring Essence by Ho Xuan Huong (translated by John Balaban; Copper Canyon)

The Cane Groves of Narmada River (City Lights); and Erotic Love Poems of India (Shambhala; both translated by Andrew Schelling)

Huge Haiku by David McAleavey (Chax)

Marginalien by Alan Halsey (Five Seasons)

Sound and Form in Modern Poetry by Robert McDowell

Comments

[tom beckett]

Among the poetry choices I want to echo Lissa Wolsak's Pen Chants. It's a fabulous book.