Some of the Stack of Books

from my recent journeys to ASU, AWP-land, and elsewhere (I never could walk by a bookstore/bookfair without a little indulging)


Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice, James Lileks (this is too funny)
Devious Derivations: Popular Misconceptions and More Than 1000 True Origins of Common Words and Phrases, Hugh Rawson (I love word stuff like this)
My One Night Stand With Cancer, Tania Katan
What Becomes You, Aaron Raz & Hilda Raz (a mother and son co-write the story of his FTM transition)
The Body Incognito, Cynthia Hogue (the title poem is the heart of the book, exploring illness and language)
Salt Water Amnesia, Jeffery Skinner (new from Ausable)
I Love Everybody (and other atrocious lies), Laurie Notaro (the bad girl of contemporary personal nonfiction)
Against Forgetting: 20th Cent Poetry of Witness (now I have a specially signed copy, yay!)
The End of the Alphabet, and Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Claudia Rankine
The Apparitioners, George Witte
Java Monkey Speaks, ed Collin Kelly and Kodac Harrison
Bloom 5
The Morning of Red Admirals, Robert Dana (I'd been looking for a book of his ever since I read a terrific poem in a recent Georgia Review issue)
Rift, Forrest Hamer (I really like the "Goldsboro Narrative" poems)
Annus Mirabilis, Sally Ball (terrific blendings of science and art)
Other Fugitives & Other Strangers, Rigoberto Gonzalez (I missed getting Rigo to sign for me at AWP. I *heart* "Papi Love." For daddy lovers everywhere.)
The Second Person, C Dale Young (many lovely manly love poems here)
Prairie Fever, Mary Biddinger (came in the mail today, yay!)

Happy reading

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