di Prima, Diane. Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years. 2001. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.
I loved the other two of di Prima’s memoirs that I’ve read (Memoirs of a Beatnik and Revolutionary Letters), so I’ve had this one on my list to read for a while. I bought it and Dear Vaccine with a gift certificate I received for my team winning a trivia contest at work.
Nye, Naomi Shihab, David Hassler, and Tyler Meier, eds. Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2022.
I remain obsessed with literature about the pandemic, and have therefore had my eye on this poetry anthology for a while. I was able to find a new copy for a deeply reduced price.
Whipple, Allyson, ed. Fractured by Cattails: The Haiku Society of America 2023 Members’ Anthology. New York: Haiku Society of America, 2023.
The Haiku Society of America’s annual anthology came in the mail earlier this week. It’s always a fun read because a lot of people (myself included) submit poems that are more playful or adventurous than the stuff that usually gets accepted by journals.
Daniel Shank Cruz 