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”
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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”
Books Acquired Recently: Mennonite Edition
Neufeldt, Leonard. Yarrow: Poems. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1993. I bought this book because I’ve been doing some writing about Mennonite poet Di Brandt, and the collection has a poem dedicated to her (“The Tree with a Hole in Our Front Yard”) that I wanted to reference. I read this poem twenty years agoContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Mennonite Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Friesen, Patrick. Outlasting the Weather: Selected and New Poems 1994-2020. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2020. As I just wrote here, Patrick Friesen is one of the most important Mennonite writers ever. It is therefore very exciting that his second volume of Selected Poems is now out. Lisicky, Paul. Later: My Life at the Edge of theContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Marje A. Dyck Edition
Dyck, Marje A. A Piece of the Moon. Saskatoon: Calisto Press, 2005. —. Still Blue Water: Collected Tanka. Saskatoon: Calisto Press, 2012. Recently, while reading Terry Ann Carter’s Haiku in Canada, I came across some poems by Marje A. Dyck. My immediate thought was “Dyck is a Mennonite name! I wonder if she’s Mennonite?” IContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Marje A. Dyck Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Free Books Edition
Cates, James A. Serpent in the Garden: Amish Sexuality in a Changing World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. I wrote a blurb for this book, and recently received my blurber’s copy in the mail. Maldonado, Ricardo Alberto. The Life Assignment. Tribeca, NY: Four Way Books, 2020. I have not encountered Maldonado’s work before, butContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Free Books Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition
Kauffman, Janet. Eco-dementia. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. Kauffman was one of the first major Mennonite writers in the U.S., and I have deeply appreciated her work since first encountering it in college. I was unaware of this collection of hers until a colleague mentioned it recently. Swede, George, and Terry Ann Carter, eds.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: PM Press Edition
I got my monthly shipment of PM Press books in the mail today. What is included is always a surprise. This month’s batch looks especially exciting. Federici, Silvia. Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle. Rev. ed. Oakland: PM Press, 2020. Glick, Ted. Burglar for Peace: Lessons Learned in the Catholic Left’s ResistanceContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: PM Press Edition”
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