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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
Recent posts

May, June, early July reading

Time Is a Mother , Ocean Vuong Purgatory , Raul Zurita  And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase , Lynn Xu All the Flowers Kneeling , Paul Tran Plainwater , Anne Carson The Renunciations , Donika Kelly Some Say a Lark , Jennifer Chang The Master Letters , Lucie Brock-Broido Stay, Illusion , Lucie Brock-Broido Praise , Robert Hass Water Puppets , Quan Barry The Octopus Museum , Brenda Shaughnessy Versed , Rae Armantrout

February, March, April reading

Crystallography , Christian Bok Glass, Irony, and God , Anne Carson The Dolphin  and Day by Day  (selections), Robert Lowell Dolls , Claire Millikin Burying the Mountain , Shangyang Fang In the Language of My Captor , Shane McCrae frank: sonnets , Diane Seuss All the Flowers Kneeling , Paul Tran Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream , Juan Felipe Herrera Ajax , Sophocles Trojan Women , Euripides The Bacchae , Euripides (from 2021; listed now) Iphigenia in Aulis , Euripides (from 2021; listed now) Orestes , Euripides Alceste , Euripides Macbeth , Shakespeare Coriolanus , Shakespeare (from 2021; listed now) Pericles , Shakespeare (from 2021; listed now)

January reading

Dictee , Theresa Hak Kyung Cha God of Nothingness , Mark Wunderlich The Descend of Alette , Alice Notley alphabet , Inger Christensen Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts , Jorie Graham Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream , Juan Felipe Herrera  

October reading

DMZ Colony , Don Mee Choi Juvenilia , Ken Chen Not Here , Hieu Minh Nguyen How to Be Drawn , Terrance Hayes Mezzanine , Zoe Hitzig Thinking its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry , Dorothy Wang