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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”

di Prima, Diane. Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1990. —. The Poetry Deal. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2014. I love di Prima’s memoirs–I recently read Recollections of My Life as a Woman–but haven’t read much of her poetry, so I decided to buy these two books. I’m aboutContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Diane di Prima 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, November 2023”

di Prima, Diane. Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years. 2001. New York: Penguin Books, 2002. I loved the other two of di Prima’s memoirs that I’ve read (Memoirs of a Beatnik and Revolutionary Letters), so I’ve had this one on my list to read for a while. I bought itContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Butler, Octavia E. Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview and Other Conversations. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2023. I spoke at an event at McNally Jackson Seaport earlier this week, and they gave me a voucher for a free book. I used it on this new collection of some of Butler’s interviews. I love her work, andContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Kennel, Maxwell. Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2023. I am participating in a special issue of a journal about this recently-released book. My review copy came in the mail a few days ago. Saitō, Sanki. Selected Haiku, 1933-1962. Trans. Masaya Saito. Tokyo: Isobar Press, 2023. I’ve been focusing moreContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Acevedo-Quiñones, Claudia. The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History. Brookline, MA: Rose Metal Press, 2023. I heard about this piece of creative nonfiction about hurricanes throughout Puerto Rico’s history a few weeks ago and pre-ordered it immediately because of my family’s history with them. Beary, Roberta, Lew Watts, and Rich Youmans. Haibun: A Writer’s Guide. Bath,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Garth, Kristin. Daddy: Stories. N.p.: Anxiety Press, 2023. I enjoy the poetry of Garth’s that I’ve read, so when I saw she had a new collection of fiction out I decided to buy it. Torres, Justin. Blackouts. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Torres’s long-awaited second novel was finally just released, eleven years afterContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Plett, Casey. On Community. Windsor, ON: Biblioasis, 2023. Casey Plett is one of my favorite authors, so I had pre-ordered this book of nonfiction, which arrived yesterday. Zhou, Emily. Girlfriends. Brooklyn: LittlePuss Press, 2023. I ordered this short story collection because it is published by LittlePuss, which Plett cofounded. I read it this week andContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Trans 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, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, September 2023”