February reading

Finished from earlier:

Sight Lines, Arthur Sze
Eye Level, Jenny Xie

Started and finished:

Wodwo, Ted Hughes
Tales from Ovid, Ted Hughes
Weeds and Wild Flowers, Alice Oswald
Whereas, Layli Long Soldier
Black Movie, Danez Smith
Bestiary, Donika Kelly

In progress:

Sweeney Astray (selections), Seamus Heaney
The New Black, Evie Shockley
feeld, jos charles
The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson
When My Brother Was an Aztec, Natalie Diaz

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August 2023

Completed : John Ashbery, The Double Dream of Spring Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red Anne Carson, Decreation Anders Carlson-Wee, The Low Passions Franny Choi, Soft Science Louise Gluck, Averno Julian Gewirtz, Your Face My Flag Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson Joanna Klink, Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy Dong Li, The Orange Tree Rowan Riccardo Philips, Heaven Lee Ann Roripaugh, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 Adam Scheffler, Heartworm Solmaz Sharif, Customs Danez Smith, Homie Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler Mai der Vang, Afterland Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense Monica Youn, Blackacre (reread) In progress : Daniel Borzutsky, The Performance of Becoming Human Dionne Brand, Nomenclature Alex Dimitrov, Together and by Ourselves Louise Gluck, Proofs and Theories Jorie Graham, Runaway Susan Howe, Quarry Carl Philips, Then the War: Selected Poems Lisa Robertson, Magenta Soul Whip Mai der Vang, Yellow Rain C.D. Wright, One Big Self

Yeats: cinematographer

Yeats had the tremendous ability of manipulating space and time in his poems. He can maintain tension even while focusing on a single image over two stanzas: ...Imagining that I could A greater with a lesser pang assuage Or but to find if withered vein ran blood, I tore my body that its wine might cover Whatever could recall the lip of lover. And after that I held my fingers up, Stared at the wine-dark nail, or dark that ran Down every withered finger from the top; But the dark changed to red, and torches shone, And deafening music shook the leaves;...

Shiji (史记)

A. Sima Qian's account in his seminal 史记 ( Shiji , History Record - usually translated as 'Records of the Grand Historian') of six assassins is probably the most absorbing part of that work. But why would Sima Qian devote a section on commoners in a work that otherwise considers only nobility and rulers? Perhaps the better question is: what's the effect of this inclusion on us?

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