After I finished my MFA a year ago, my book buying dropped off pretty significantly (partly because I was buying fountain pens instead), but it has really picked up again over the past few months. I already know that I am going to surpass my book-buying budget for June even though the month is only half over, haha.
Abi-Karam, Andrea, and Kay Gabriel, eds. We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. New York: Nightboat Books, 2020.
Gabriel, Kay. A Queen in Bucks County. New York: Nightboat Books, 2022.
I was assigned We Want It All‘s introduction in the Poetics of Resistance workshop I’m currently taking, and as soon as I read it I knew that I had to buy the full book. As I was reading about the anthology on Nightboat’s website, the description of A Queen in Bucks County caught my eye, so I decided to buy it, too.
van den Heuvel, Cor, ed. The Haiku Anthology: Haiku and Senryu in English. Revised Edition. 1986. New York: Touchstone, 1991.
When I first got into haiku, I read the third (i.e., the most recent) edition of this anthology. Recently, I bought the first edition because I thought it would be interesting to see what the field was like when it was published in 1974. This exercise was even more fascinating than I had hoped, so I decided to go ahead and complete my set and buy the second edition.
Daniel Shank Cruz 