Hostetler, Ann. Safehold. Telford, PA: DreamSeeker Books, 2018. Hostetler is best-known for her 2003 anthology of Mennonite poetry A Cappella, but she is also an accomplished poet herself. Safehold is her second collection. I ordered it as soon as it was released. For some reason amazon.com didn’t have it right away, so I acquired itContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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Books Acquired Recently
Good, Merle. Surviving Failure (and a Few Successes). Lancaster, PA: Walnut Street Books, 2018. Good is one of the first Mennonite writers from the United States (his novel Happy as the Grass was Green came out in 1971), and he and his wife Phyllis were the owners of Good Books, which published a number ofContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Agüeros, Jack. “Dominoes” and Other Stories from the Puerto Rican. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1993. —. Sonnets from the Puerto Rican. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1996. I recently finished reading Roberto Márquez’s anthology Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times, and discovered through it a number of writers whose work I would like toContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Kasdorf, Julia Spicher, and Michael Tyrell, eds. Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn. New York: 2007. Kasdorf is one of my favorite poets/literary critics, and a friend, and this is the only one of her books that I had not had. Used copies are now available for a reasonable price from amazon.com’s network of independent sellers (whichContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Oyer, John S., and Robert S. Kreider. Mirror of the Martyrs. Intercourse: Good, 1990. I bought this book to use in my continuing research on the Martyrs Mirror. My research of late has been especially focused on the illustrations by Jan Luyken, which are one of the main subjects of Oyer and Kreider’s book. Santos-Febres,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Thoughts on the New Site Photo
About a month ago, I changed the cover photograph (to appropriate the Facebook term) of this blog, but I didn’t provide an explanation for the photo, so I thought I would do so now. I decided that it was necessary to have a photo of books from my personal library rather than continuing to useContinue reading “Thoughts on the New Site Photo”
Giannina Braschi’s Yo-Yo Boing!
The Puerto Rican-American writer Giannina Braschi’s 1998 novel (this is the best term I can think of for it, though it is only a novel insofar as that term is now so all encompassing, like a giant, shaggy literary beast somewhere between Cookie Monster and Grendel that devours everything in its path) Yo-Yo Boing! (translated into English by TessContinue reading “Giannina Braschi’s Yo-Yo Boing!”
Daniel Shank Cruz 