BELATED BLOG-FILE: 2010 PURCHASES OF POETRY

For some reason, I’d omitted sometime in early 2011 to blog-file my 2010 purchases of poetry collections or books in other genres by poets. So, here it is below—a total of 93, which is certainly an improvement from my Great Recession buying which only totaled 36 titles in the prior year of 2009. I’m blog-filing it in anticipation of a future post on my poetry purchases for 2012. If I track each year, then I can generate a year to year pattern for reasons still obscure to Moi.

As always, my poetry purchasing list doesn't accurately reflect my poetry interests or tastes.  It just reflects ... what I bought and what I buy often occurs through random circumstances unplanned by Moi.



2010 POETRY PURCHASES:

THE FAR MOSQUE by Kazim Ali

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

A BLUE HAND: THE BEATS IN INDIA, biography by Deborah Baker

KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista

Belladonna 2011 Subscription: “A Year in the Commons” featuring THE WIDE ROAD by Lyn Hejinian & Carla Harryman; LOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN: INTERVIEWS ON SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY AND OTHER WORKS by Barbara Henning; Belladonna limited edition chapbooks; SEASONS: QUARTETS (RECOMPOSED): WORDS MOVE / MUSIC MOVES: ONLY IN TIME -- THE FOUR SEASONS re-composed by Colette Alexander and Nancy Magarill, THE FOUR QUARTETS re-envisioned by Kristin Prevallet; and SUNDAY, THEORY: A TRANSLATION OF LA THEORIE, UN DIMANCHE (1988, Remue-Menage), a multi-authored, multi-genre (theory, fiction) volume of six Québécois Women: Louky Bersianik, Nicole Brossard, Louise Cotnoir, Louise Dupré, Gail Scott, and France Théoret, with short contemporary commentary by a diverse range of writers, and translated by Erica Weitzman, Pophana Brandes et al; edited by Rachel Levitsky and Gail Scott.

ALL THE WHISKEY IN HEAVEN: SELECTED POEMS OF CHARLES BERNSTEIN

BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer

FLUX, CLOTH & FROTH, Vol. 1 (text) by John Bloomberg-Rissman

FLUX, CLOTH & FROTH, Vol. 2 (notes to poems) by John Bloomberg-Rissman

DAYS POEM by Allen Bramhall

QUINTESSENCE OF THE MINOR: SYMBOLIST POETRY IN ENGLISH by Garrett Caples

THE COMPLETE STORIES AND POEMS OF LEWIS CARROLL

BEAUTIFUL SIGNOR by Cyrus Cassells

NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Jennifer Clement

THE WHOLE TRUTH by James Cummins

DAYS WE ARE GIVEN by Alice D'Alessio

MIDNIGHT'S GATE, essays by Bei Dao

RESIN by Geri Doran

SONATA MULATTICA by Rita Dove

THE COCKTAIL PARTY by T.S. Eliot

AUTOPSY TURVY, poems by Thomas Fink & Maya Diablo Mason

HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES: FROM INDIOS BRAVOS TO FILIPINOS by Luis H. Francia

VESTIGES OF WAR: THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR AND THE AFTERMATH OF AN IMPERIAL DREAM, 1899-1999, Co-edited by Luis Francia and Angel Velasco Shaw. Contributors include Genara Banzon, Santiago Bose, Ben Cabrera, Renato Constantino, Doreen Fernandez, Eric Gamalinda, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jessica Hagedorn, Reynaldo Ileto, Yong Soon Min, Manuel Ocampo, Paul Pfeiffer, Christina Quisumbing, Vicente Rafael, Daniel Boone Schirmer, Kidlat Tahimik, Mark Twain, and Jim Zwick.

A WORKING GIRL CAN'T WIN AND OTHER POEMS by Deborah Garrison

THE DANCE MOST OF ALL by Jack Gilbert

THE FIRST FOUR BOOKS OF POEMS (Firstborn, The House on Marshland, Descending Figure and The Triumph of Achilles) by Louise Gluck

THE SEVEN AGES by Louise Gluck

HARD TO PLACE: ONE FAMILYS JOURNEY THROUGH ADOPTION, poetry therapy memoir by Marion Goldstein

STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTISTS edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves

PIGAFETTA IS MY WIFE by Joe Hall

TRAJE DE BODA by Aileen Ibardaloza

TRANCE ARCHIVES: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Andrew Joron

BRIGHT STAR: LOVE LETTERS AND POEMS OF JOHN KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE (the Penguin edition after which the movie was made so that introduction is by director Jane Campion)

A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR by Jewel Kilcheer

STET by Jose Kozer

LIVING UNDER PLASTIC by Evelyn Lau

SHARKS IN THE RIVERS by Ada Limon

ARCHIPELAGO DUST by Karen Llagas

WAITING FOR SWEET BETTY by Clarence Major

GORGEOUS CHAOS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1965-2001 by Jack Marshall

MEETING SOPHIE: A MEMOIR OF ADOPTION by Nancy McCabe

HINGE & SIGN by Heather McHugh

THE GOD OF INDETERMINACY by Sandra McPherson

DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA by Dunya Mikhail

THE WAR WORKS HARD by Dunya Mikhail

IN THE PRESENCE OF THE SUN: STORIES AND POEMS, 1961-1991 by N. Scott Momaday

WOVEN STONE by Simon J. Ortiz

THE POEMS OF DOCTOR ZHIVAGO by Boris Pasternak, Trans. by Eugene M. Kayden with drawings by Bill Greer

FOR A LIVING by Frances Phillips

FAULTY MOTHERING by Elaine Randell

CHILDREN OF DREAMS, memoir by Lorilyn Roberts

LISA ROBERTSON'S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP by Lisa Robertson

A RADIANCE LIKE WIND OR WATER by Richard Ronan

HEARTWOOD: MEDITATIONS ON SOUTHERN OAKS with poetry by Rumi and photographs by William Guion

UNABLE TO FULLY CALIFORNIA by Larry Sawyer

KING OF THE JUNGLE by Zvi A. Sesling

THE SINGERS & THE NOTES by Logan Ryan Smith

PASSAGE THROUGH INDIA, travelogue by Gary Snyder

RIPRAP AND COLD MOUNTAIN POEMS by Gary Snyder

VIEW WITH A GRAIN OF SAND: SELECTED POEMS by Wislawa Szymborska

SILK EGG: COLLECTED NOVELS (2009-2009) by Eileen R. Tabios

THE THORN ROSARY: SELECTED PROSE POEMS & NEW 1998-2010 by Eileen R. Tabios

NATIVE GUARD by Natasha Trethewey

HERON/GIRLFRIEND by Jen Tynes

RADHA SAYS by Reetika Vazirani

VIRTUOSO LITERATURE FOR TWO AND FOUR HANDS: NEW POEMS by Diane Wakoski

OVERTIME: SELECTED POEMS by Philip Whalen, Ed. Michael Rothenberg

LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman

BY PARKED CARS by J.D. Woolery

UNRELATED INDIVIDUALS FORMING A GROUP WAITING TO CROSS by Mark Yakich

EXHIBIT by John Yau

THE SECOND PERSON: POEMS by C. Dale Young

MORE FROM SERIES MAGRITTE by Mark Young