Monthly Archives: December 2023

Here are the books that I received as holiday gifts, or, in the case of Fiebig’s and Waite’s, bought with some holiday cash: Fiebig, Johannes, ed. The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith: The Story of the World’s Most Popular Tarot. Cologne: Taschen, 2023. Waite, A. E. The Key to the Tarot:Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Edition”

Cruz, Daniel Shank. Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024. My author’s copies of my new book FINALLY arrived after some shipping snafus on the printer’s part. (The book was released on November 21.) The book’s copyright date is 2024 even though it is already out,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

di Prima, Diane. Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1990. —. The Poetry Deal. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2014. I love di Prima’s memoirs–I recently read Recollections of My Life as a Woman–but haven’t read much of her poetry, so I decided to buy these two books. I’m aboutContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Diane di Prima Edition”

Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times (which were especially terrible this month), and partlyContinue reading “Writing Activity, November 2023”