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This year's reading

In roughly the order I'd read them:

René Girard, Theatre of Envy
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Jericho Brown, The New Testament
Jericho Brown, The Tradition
Forrest Gander, Be With
Martin McDonagh, The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Marjorie Perloff, Wittgenstein's Ladder
Claudia Rankine, Citizen
Peter Balakian, Ozone Journal
Justin Wymer, Deed
Diane Seuss, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and Girl
Sharif Solmaz, Look
Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

Also a list of books I haven't finished, roughly in the order I started them:

Victoria Chang, Barbie Chang
Helen Vendler, Last Looks, Last Books
A.E. Stallings, Like
Fred Moten, The Little Edges
Gregory Pardlo, Digest
Elizabeth Willis, Alive
Vijay Seshadri, 3 Sections



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