This past week I attended the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, which was held in Seattle this year. One of my favorite aspects of going to MLA is browsing the book fair, which usually has a good mix of academic and commercial publishers represented. Almost all of the publishers have sales and some give away books, so I acquired sixteen books for only $179.50 total. The Bacchilega and Brown, de Foïard-Brown and Nelson, Diaz, Quinoñez, and Vuong were free. The Erdrich, Greenwell, Smith, and Tariq were only $5.00 apiece. I would have bought more but I intentionally did not leave much room in my suitcase for my acquisitions so that I would not spend too much.
Ahmed, Sara. What’s the Use? On the Uses of Use. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
Bacchilega, Cristina, and Marie Alohalani Brown, eds. The Penguin Book of Mermaids. New York: Penguin Books, 2019.
Berlant, Lauren, ed. Reading Sedgwick. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
de Foïard-Brown, Jacques, and Marilyn Nelson. The Baobab Room. N.p.: Little Bound Books, 2019.
Nelson gave a reading on Saturday night at which she handed out ten free, signed copies of this book. Luckily, I was sitting in the front row and was thus able to get one.
Diaz, Natalie. Postcolonial Love Poem. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2020.
This book does not come out until March but the publisher was giving away signed advance reader’s copies.
Erdrich, Heid E., ed. New Poets of Native Nations. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2018.
Ghaziani, Amin, and Matt Brim, eds. Imagining Queer Methods. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
Incidentally, Brim and I presented on the same panel, Black Queer Contributions.
Greenwell, Garth. Cleanness. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
This is the first book I have acquired with a 2020 publication date! It technically doesn’t come out until later this month.
Quinoñez, Ernesto. Taína. New York: Vintage Books, 2019.
Ruiz, Sandra. Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
Sanchez, Melissa E. Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
Smith, Carmen Giménez. Be Recorder: Poems. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2019.
Stockton, Kathryn Bond. Avidly Reads Making Out. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
Tariq, Malcolm. Heed the Hollow: Poems. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2019.
Thurm, Eric. Avidly Reads Board Games. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
Vuong, Ocean. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. New York: Penguin Press, 2019.
