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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

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