Author Archives: danielshankcruz

My previous post listed all of the books I bought at AWP last week. There were a few publishers who are usually there that I wanted to visit who did not attend the book fair this year. Thus, after I got home I ordered three books that I had been hoping to buy in person.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Virtual AWP Edition/Authors Whose Last Name Mostly Begins With P Edition”

I just returned from this year’s Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference. As usual, I bought plenty of books at the book fair. Akbar, Kaveh. Martyr! New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. Alabanza, Travis. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary. New York: Feminist Press, 2023. Brownlow, Exodus Oktavia. I’mContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: AWP 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, January 2024”

di Prima, Diane. Haiku. Illustrated by George Herms. 1967. South Pasadena, CA: X Artists’ Books, 2019. I love di Prima’s work and I love haiku, so of course I would eventually buy this book! It was originally printed in an edition of 100 unbound copies in 1967, so I’m glad it’s currently available in aContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Baêta, Sabrina. Impressions. N.p.: Sabrina Baêta, 2020. This is a book by one of my colleagues that I recently found out about and look forward to reading. Munroe, Randall. What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. 2014. London: John Murray, 2022. I received this book as a gift.

I attended the 2024 Modern Language Association annual convention in Philadelphia this past week. As usual, I bought a number of texts at the book fair: Awkward-Rich, Cameron. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Castillo, Ana. Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home. New York: HarperVia, 2023. Chen, Mel Y., AlisonContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: MLA Edition”

The influential avant-garde publisher Hanuman Editions has just been re-started, and their first books are a boxed set reprinting some of their classics. I saw it advertised on Twitter and pre-ordered it immediately because it includes difficult-to-find books by three queer authors I love, John Ashbery, Dodie Bellamy, and Eileen Myles. My set arrived yesterday.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Hanuman Editions 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, 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”