This is the rare Books Acquired Recently post where none of the books are queer or Mennonite 😮 Laymon, Kiese. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays. Rev. ed. New York: Scribner, 2020. I love Laymon’s memoir Heavy, and thus have been meaning to get to this collection of essays, which wasContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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Books Acquired Recently: Just in Case Edition, Part Two
As I wrote here a few days ago, “I recently panic-ordered a bunch of books that might get censored if the Orange One stays in power, which thankfully looks like won’t happen!” The last of these books have now come in. brown, adrienne maree. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. Chico, CA: AK Press,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Just in Case Edition, Part Two”
Books Acquired Recently: Just in Case Edition
I recently panic-ordered a bunch of books (several that have recently come out, several that have been on my list for a while) that might get censored if the Orange One stays in power, which thankfully looks like won’t happen! But it’s still necessary to read narratives by marginalized voices as an act of resistanceContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Just in Case Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: PM Press Edition
My monthly PM Press subscription box arrived this morning. Bunnell, Jacinta. A More Graceful Shaboom. Illustrated by Crystal Vielula. Oakland: PM Press, 2020. This is a children’s book with a nonbinary main character! How awesome! Johnson, Robb. The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child Versus the State. Oakland: PM Press, 2020. Richards, Akilah S. RaisingContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: PM Press Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Queer Writers with Last Names Beginning with “S” Edition
Sajé, Natasha. Terroir: Love, Out of Place. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2020. Sajé was a colleague of mine when I did my post-doctoral fellowship at Westminster College. She was an important queer role model for me early in my career. I was very excited earlier this year when I heard that her memoir wouldContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Queer Writers with Last Names Beginning with “S” Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Halberstam, Jack. Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Halberstam is one of the most important queer theorists working today, so I bought his new book automatically. However, the subject matter also looks really fascinating. Rickert, Bryan, ed. Bundled Wildflowers: Haiku Society of America 2020 Members’ Anthology. N.p.: Haiku SocietyContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Mostly Seanan McGuire Edition
Glück, Louise. American Originality: Essays on Poetry. 2017. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018. I was very excited to have a poet win the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. I am not very familiar with Glück’s work, so I decided to buy a book of hers. While researching her work to decide whatContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Mostly Seanan McGuire Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Dávila, Arlene. Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. I have enjoyed some of Dávila’s previous work in Latinx Studies, and know very little about Latinx art, so decided to buy this book to educate myself further. Muñoz, José Esteban. The Sense of Brown. Edited by Joshua Chambers-Letson and TaviaContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Mostly PM Press Edition
Dornaus, Margaret, ed. Behind the Mask: Haiku in the Time of COVID-19. Ozark, AR: Singing Moon Press, 2020. I just heard about this timely anthology and ordered it right away. One of haiku’s strengths is that it is written quickly and thus can respond to current events almost immediately. Khakpour, Porochista. Brown Album: Essays onContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Mostly PM Press Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Eisner, Mark, and Tina Escaja, eds. Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution. Portland, OR: Tin House, 2020. I heard about this anthology on Twitter and bought it right away because “poems of protest and revolution” are necessary now more than ever. Wright, David. Local Talent. Chicago: Purple Flag Press, 2019. Wright is a Mennonite poetContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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