Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower. 1993. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2016. —. Parable of the Talents. 1998. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2016. I’ve loved all of the Octavia Butler books that I have read, and I’ve been thinking about reading her novel Parable of the Sower for a while now. I wasContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Octavia Butler Edition”
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Books Acquired Recently
Haring, Keith. Journals. 1996. New York: Penguin Books, 2010. I recently decided that I should start reading other writers’ journals because somehow I’ve hardly read any. Haring’s name randomly came up a few times in various contexts over the past week, so I decided that I would read his journal first. Huddleston, Edward Cody, ed.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Samatar, Sofia. Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2024. Samatar’s third book this year (one of them co-written with Kate Zambreno) came out yesterday. I pre-ordered it and look forward to begin reading it later today! Wark, McKenzie. Life Story. London: Hanuman Editions, 2024. I loved Wark’s book Raving,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition, Once Again
Luckring, Eve. The Tender Between. Princeton, NJ: Ornithopter Press, 2018. I recently read some of Luckring’s haiku in an anthology and really enjoyed them, so I decided to buy her book. Shirane, Haruo. Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. I found out about thisContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition, Once Again”
Writing Activity, July 2024
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, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, July 2024”
Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition
Gilbert, Richard. The Disjunctive Dragonfly: A New Approach to English-Language Haiku. Updated ed. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2016. I recently had this book recommended to me by someone who is also interested in writing nontraditional haiku. Rotella, Alexis. Milkweed: Selected Haiku & Senryu. Taylorville, IL: Brooks Books, 2024. Rotella has been one of myContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition”
Writing Activity, June 2024
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, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, June 2024”
Books Acquired Recently: Chapbook Edition
Berggrun, Chase. Somewhere a Seagull. N.p.: After Hours Editions, 2023. I love Berggrun’s full-length poetry collection R E D, so when I heard about this limited-edition chapbook last week I bought it immediately. My copy is numbered 55/100. Cairns, Robyn, and Marianne Paul. Damselflies. Canada: Paper Heron Press, 2023. This is a lovely hand-sewn chapbookContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Chapbook Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Strand Edition
Today is “Strand Day” to celebrate the Strand‘s ninety-seventh anniversary, so everything in the store is 25% off and you get a free tote bag if you spend more than $50.00. I hadn’t been there in while, but this deal was too good to pass up, so I went this morning and bought a fewContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Strand Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
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 onlyContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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