I BUY POETRY!

Well, opening the Holiday Presents allows me to present my last updated list for the year as regards moi Recently Bought Poetry List of books by poets or about poets/poetry:

REVELATOR by Ron Silliman

I’LL DROWN MY BOOK: CONCEPTUAL WRITING BY WOMEN, Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place

SEASONAL WORKS WITH LETTERS ON FIRE by Brenda Hillman

WHAT LIGHT CAN DO: ESSAYS ON ART, IMAGINATION, AND THE NATURAL WORLD by Robert Hass

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF PHILIP LAMANTIA, eds Garrett Gaples, Andrew Joron and Nancy Joyce Peters

HELLO, THE ROSES by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

THE CODICILS by Mark Young

POEMS’ PROGRESS by Wendy Barker

THE MOON, COME TO EARTH {DISPATCHES FROM LISBON] by Philip Graham

JUST KIDS, memoir of life with Robert Maplethorpe by Patti Smith

BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer

STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN STAGE ARTISTS Edited by Theodore Gonzalves

LIST-ING THROUGH LIFE

Well, it’s difficult to do anything but post lists when Blogger has issues (can’t use "Compose" mode or post images, for example). So here’s an update on moi Recently Bought Poetry List of books by poets or about poets/poetry:

BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer

SELECTED POEMS OF SALVADOR ESPRIU

CAN IT, memoir by Edmund Berrigan

PEOPLE ARE STRANGE, short stories with much poetry by Eric Gamalinda

SUSPENSION OF A SECRET IN ABANDONED ROOMS by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

THE VOICE AT 3:00 A.M. by Charles Simic

THE NEXT ANCIENT WORLD by Jennifer Michael Hecht

I WANT TO MAKE YOU SAFE by Amy King

THE FADING SMILE: POETS IN BOSTON FROM ROBERT LOWELL TO SYLVIA PLATH by Peter Davison

MANY WINTERS: PROSE AND POETRY OF THE PUEBLOS, by Nancy Wood with drawings and paintings by Frank Howell

ALL IS FORGOTTEN, NOTHING IS LOST, novel re poets and ars poetica by Lan Samantha Chang

DARED AND DONE: THE MARRIAGE OF ELIZABETH BARRETT AND ROBERT BROWNING, biography by Julia Markus

AFTERNOONS WITH EMILY, a portrait of Emily Dickinson by Rose MacMurray

STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTISTS edited by Theo Gonzalves

SORTA QUEASY NOOSE...

This latest installation of my “Bought Poetry” list comes with a couple of twists. The first is that, technically, my purchases include my own newer books, THE AWAKENING and the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA (the latter penned with j/j hastain). I bought these two copies from a local fundraising sale that included books. Imagine my surprise – then kinda-queasiness – at seeing my books obviously deaccessioned by someone in order to be at this “rummage sale.” ‘Twas actually a good deal for me as the price they charged was lower than my author’s cost for copies, and the copies were in “new” (vs used) condition. I’m assuming these were unused review copies—and, hey, at least their sales back to the author were for a good cause. But still: kinda queasy -- I'm a big girl (and I know most review copies are never reviewed), but coming across them so physically this way has never happened to me before …

The second twist is that part of the list below is from the inventory of one of my publishers in the Philippines who’s retiring. Fortunately, someone was traveling from there to the U.S. so that I didn’t have to pay the international postal rate that would have made the books extremely expensive. Always HAPPY to have Giraffe books in the Poetry Library!

So here’s my latest “Bought Poetry” list which, while usually of poetry collections, also includes books in other genres (in today's list, a novel, essay collection and political science) if the authors are also poets.

THE AWAKENING by Eileen R. Tabios

THE RELATIONAL ELATIONS OF ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen R. Tabios and j/j hastain

MY FAVORITE WARLORD by Eugene Gloria

REALISM by Tom Mandel

MOTHER WAS A TRAGIC GIRL by Sandra Simonds

COLLECTED POEMS by Enoch Powell

A CUP OF SUN: A BOOK OF POEMS by Joan Walsh Anglund

SONGS OF INNOCENCE (color facsimile of the First Edition with 31 Color Plates) by William Blake

Giraffe Books:
POEMS AT WAR by Jose Ma. Espino

A BLADE OF FERNS by Edith Tiempo

MARGINAL ANNOTATIONS by Edith Tiempo

FLYING OVER KANSAS by Rowena Tiempo Torrevilas

FILIPINA INSURGENCY: WRITING AGAINST PATRIARCHY IN THE PHILIPPINES by E. San Juan

CIRCLES WITH OPEN ENDS by Diana T. Gamalinda

STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE by Eva Villanueva

MOI BUYS POETRY ... FOR FODDER

Thanks to an earlier Ron Silliman announcement (I think on Facebook; Ron is one of only 12 of my friends as I only joined FB to monitor my son ... then I decided to friend Ron coz I was bored of teen knuckleheadedness on my Timeline), I picked up the Grand Piano Series for $75 -- a good enough deal to move the topic from the horizon to the under-my-nose spot for attention. I'd bought and read the first volume when it just came out but then failed to keep up as Life interfered. Anyway, it arrived all bundled up from Lyn Hejinian, one of the poets in the series. And now it's sitting, complete with its packaging material, on one of my kitchen counters like so:

I keep looking at the still life. I kinda have this hankering to create a mini-book from the packaging. I've done so before (and did it again on another mini-book that I've yet to blog about). As I write this, I'm wondering how to do a book cover that won't be ... brown. The other two mini-books' covers also rely on brown pieces of paper. Can't people send mail in scarlet or lavender?

Anyway, let Moi huddle with the Muse. They should be able to do something ... especially if they'd actually read the rest of the books (hah: what an idea!) ...

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...and this all reminds me to do another update on my Recently Bought Poetry List, to wit:

THE RESERVOIR by Donna Stonecipher

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

THE GRAND PIANO: AN EXPERIMENT IN COLLECTIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SAN FRANCISCO 1975-1980, Volumes 1-20, by Rae Armantrout, Steve Benson, Alan Bernheimer, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman and Barrett Watten,

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

UNPROTECTED TEXTS (SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006) by Tom Beckett

BLOOD SISTER, I AM TO THESE FIELDS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Linda Hussa

Onward!

POETRY PURCHASED IN 2012

For 2012, I bought 83 books of poetry by, on and/or edited by poets, as well as books in other genres (e.g. biographies) authored by poets.  This is a 77% increase over the prior year's purchases of 47 titles, but not impressive given 2011's low threshold.  Again, I can do better.

I bought from bookstores, publishers, Amazon.com and other online site, St. Helena's wonderful used bookstore Main Street Books and library sales.  What this year reveals is that Kindle didn't take off for me; I stopped using it after a few months of novelty and so only "purchased" four books for Kindle. 

Nota Bene: Money doesn't reflect desire when it comes to my poetry-buying. While this list offers poets whose works I like and thus acquire, it also reflects books bought from no particularly strong desire to include in my poetry library (jest curiosity). For instance, some books were bought at a local public library sale for cents on the dollar, a price that makes me buy poetry without a particularly strong interest in such acquisition. Also, I am fortunate to have alternative access to poetry books I actually will cherish, whether through gifts, trades or even review copies for Galatea Resurrects. Nonetheless, a list exists of my BOUGHT POETRY OR BOOKS BY POETS and so here it is for 2012. Unless stated otherwise, the books are poetry collections:


FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

THE HEART OF A WOMAN by Maya Angelou

BORDERLANDS/ LA FRONTERA by Gloria Anzaldua

THE DOOR by Margaret Atwood

UNPROTECTED TEXTS by Tom Beckett

THE BUDDHIST by Dodie Bellamy

BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer

OUR LADY OF THE RUINS: POEMS by Traci Brimhall

THE RING AND THE BOOK by Robert Browning with engravings by Carl Schultheiss

HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE by Jane Brox

EROS: THE BITTERSWEET by Anne Carson

DISAPPOINTED PSALMS by Brian Clements

COLEMAN HAWKINS ORNETTE COLEMAN by Norma Cole

DIANE DI PRIMA: THE OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE, Edited by Ammiel Alcalay & Ana Bozicevic (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

EDWARD DORN: THE OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE, Edited by Lindsey Freer (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

SAINTS OF HYSTERIA: A HALF-CENTURY OF COLLABORATIVE AMERICAN POETRY, co-edited by Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad

YEAR OF REVERSIBLE LOSS by Norma Farber

DARK CARD by Rebecca Foust

LIKE THE PIECES OF DRIFTWOOD by Jon Francis

FABRIC by Richard Froude

HAVE by Marc Gaba

SAPPHIC SONGS: SEVENTEEN TO SEVENTY by Elsa Gidlow

CITY OF CORNERS by John Godfrey

SCENTED RUSHES by Nada Gordon

LIFE WORK by Donald Hall

SEASONS AT EAGLE POND by Donald Hall

CRAZY BRAVE: A MEMOIR by Joy Harjo

THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Robert Hass

LANGSTON HUGHES, NANCY CUNARD & LOUSIE THOMPSON: POETRY, POLITICS & FRIENDSHIP IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, Edited by Anne Donlon (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

BIRTHDAY LETTERS by Ted Hughes

SELECTED POEMS IN FIVE SETS BY Laura Riding Jackson

SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS #9, Ed. Brian Johnson

PERSPECTIVES ON A GRAFTED TREE: THOUGHTS FOR THOSE TOUCHED BY ADOPTION, poetry anthology edited by Patricia Irwin Johnston

HALF LIVES by Erica Jong

JEW BOY by Alan Kaufman

WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION by Brenda Knight

JOANNE KYGER: LETTERS TO & FROM, Edited by Ammiel Alcalay & Joanne Kyger (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

WHAT THE STONES REMEMBER: A LIFE REDISCOVERED, memoir by Patrick Lane

THE COUNTRY ROAD by James Laughlin

TRISM by Rebecca Loudon

OLD WAYS TO FOLD NEW PAPER by Leza Lowitz

MUTATING THE SIGNATURE: QUARRTSILUNI, journal edited by Dana Guthrie Martin and Dave Bonta

CLAY FEET / WIRE WINGS, poems by John N. McDowell

CAMPOCORTO by Peter Meinke with drawings by Jeanne Meinke

PRIMER FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS by Philip Metres

COLLECTED SONNETS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

THE SEPARATE NOTEBOOKS by Czeslaw Milosz, Translated by Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky

LORINE NIEDECKER: HOMEMADE POEMS, Edited by John Harkey (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

TRANSFER by Naomi Shihab Nye

LARYNX GALAXY: PROSE POEMS by John Olson

CLOUDFANG :: CAKEDIRT by Daniela Olszewska

NEW & SELECTED POEMS (1995) by Ron Padgett

POEMS 1955-1959 AND AN ESSAY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Boris Pasternak

MIGRITUDE by Shailja Patel

THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE by Madge Piercy

SYLVIA PLATH: A BIOGRAPHY by Linda K. Wagner-Martin

EZRA POUND AND HIS WORLD by Peter Ackroyd

LOVE POEMS by Rene Ricard

PUTI/WHITE by Patria Rivera

BONESHEPHERDS by Patrick Rosal

MICHAEL RUMAKER: SELECTED LETTERS, Edited by Megan Paslawski (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

SELECTED POEMS OF RUMI, Translated by Reynolds A. Nicholson

JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE by May Sarton

THE SOFT PLACE by Kate Schapira

HERE IS A MINI-PARADE by Kate Schapira and Daniela Olszewska

LIFE ON MARS: POEMS by Tracy K. Smith

DUENDE: POEMS by Tracy K. Smith

REGARDING WAVE by Gary Snyder

THE TULIP SACRAMENT by Annah Sobelman

WELL THEN THERE NOW by Juliana Spahr

5 SHADES OF GRAY by Eileen R. Tabios

SILENCES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LOSS by Eileen R. Tabios

DEADLINE POET by Calvin Trillin

MARINA TSVETAEVA: THE DOUBLE BEAT OF HEAVEN AND HELL, biography by Lily Feiler

NATURAL HISTORIES by Leslie Ullman

THE REAL SUBJECT: QUERIES AND CONJECTURES OF JACOB DELAFON WITH SAMPLE POEMS by Keith Waldrop

MORE ADVENTURES IN MONOCHROME by John Yau

JOHN WIENERS & CHARLES OLSON: SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE, Edited by Michael Seth Stewart (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

EATING IN THE UNDERWORLD by Rachel Zucker


Bought from Kindle (though these are free):
POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE

ILIAD by Homer

THE ODYSSEY by Homer

LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman

BLOG-FILE: 2011 POETRY PURCHASED

I guess I didn’t blog-file either my 2011 purchases of poetry collections or books in other genres by poets. So here it is, a total of 47 titles purchased, which is too little for being about half of the purchases from the prior year:

2011 Poetry Purchased (47 titles):

GRAVE RADIANCE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1990-2010 by Elizabeth Alexander

FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON by Sherman Alexie

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

HOMECOMING: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS by Julia Alvarez

THE DESECRATION OF DOVES by Arlene Ang

A WORLDLY COUNTRY: NEW POEMS by John Ashbery

RADIUS OF LIGHT by Joshua Auerbach

KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista

PARTS AND OTHER PIECES by Tom Beckett

UNPROTECTED TEXTS by Tom Beckett

LOVELY, RASPBERRY by Aaron Belz

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

THE CURVED PLANKS: POEMS, A BILINGUAL EDITION by Yves Bonnefoy, Trans. by Hoyt Rogers

THE BEAUTIFUL LESSON OF THE I by Frances Brent

ATLANTIS by Louis Dudek

A FURTHER RANGE by Robert Frost

THE ERRANCY by Jorie Graham

FIELD WORK – NOTES, SONGS, POEMS 1997-2010 by David Hadbawnik

MEMOIR AND ESSAY by Michael Gottlieb

TIME AND MATERIALS: POEMS 1997-2005 by Robert Hass

PRACTICAL WATER by Brenda Hillman

THE BOOK OF MIRRORS by Frieda Hughes

STONEPICKER AND THE BOOK OF MIRRORS: POEMS by Frieda Hughes

FABULAE by Joy Katz

ADOPTION PAPERS by Jackie Kay

OBSERVE THE LARK by Katie Louchheim

AREAS OF FOG by Joseph Massey

FULL HORIZON by Bruce McEver

SEVEN NOTEBOOKS by Campbell McGrath

THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2007, Guest Editor Heather McHugh

GILGAMESH by Stephen Mitchell

SO LATE, SO SOON: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Carol Moldaw

CULTURE OF ONE by Alice Notley

ROAD SONG FOR by Lars Palm

ELEVATORS by Rena Rosenwasser

SMALL SKY by Janice Sapigao

SELECTED POEMS by Harvey Shapiro

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

THE GREAT ENIGMA: NEW COLLECTED POEMS by Tomas Transtrumer, Trans. by Robin Fulton

A POINT IS THAT WHICH HAS NO PART by Liz Waldner

THE SACRED GEOMETRY OF PEDESTRIANS by Ken Weisner

PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT by Hazel White

THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

THE SWORDFISH TOOTH by Cynthia Zarin

TRAVELING IN REFLECTED LIGHT by Andrena Zawinski

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

POETRY = GIFT

I understand why folks rarely gift me poetry -- coals to Newcastle and all that.  But, this year, I wanted poetry books under the tree and so prompted the hubby on what to get for said purpose.  Entonces, I received two items: the marvelous LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III and Dodie Bellamy's THE BUDDHIST which I've desired for a while:

With the above, it seems a timely time to post what's likely to be my last 2012 update to my Bought Poetry List (poetry books or books in other genres by poets):

LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III—comprised of

DIANE DI PRIMA: THE OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE, Edited by Ammiel Alcalay & Ana Bozicevic

EDWARD DORN: THE OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE, Edited by Lindsey Freer

LANGSTON HUGHES, NANCY CUNARD & LOUSIE THOMPSON: POETRY, POLITICS & FRIENDSHIP IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, Edited by Anne Donlon

JOANNE KYGER: LETTERS TO & FROM, Edited by Ammiel Alcalay & Joanne Kyger

LORINE NIEDECKER: HOMEMADE POEMS, Edited by John Harkey

MICHAEL RUMAKER: SELECTED LETTERS, Edited by Megan Paslawski

JOHN WIENERS & CHARLES OLSON: SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE, Edited by Michael Seth Stewart

THE BUDDHIST by Dodie Bellamy

LARYNX GALAXY: PROSE POEMS by John Olson

NEW & SELECTED POEMS (1995) by Ron Padgett

CITY OF CORNERS by John Godfrey (I already own it! Another case of buying books I couldn’t remember I already owned. So, this “spare” copy is placed on moi Community Book Shelf in case you want to trade!)

WHAT THE STONES REMEMBER: A LIFE REDISCOVERED, memoir by Patrick Lane

PUTI/WHITE by Patria Rivera

LOVE POEMS by Rene Ricard

5 SHADES OF GRAY by Eileen R. Tabios

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Before we opened presents, of course, the hubby had to gift us breakfast -- David Eyre's pancakes!  Thanks Tom!

Served with Galatea honey reflecting the terrain of the mountain.  So ... sweet!

FOR TRADING POETRY BOOKS!

The following list is an update of my list of recently BOUGHT POETRY books.  It includes some books I snapped up at a local library's sale--I had some of those books already but acquiring copies also allowed me to update my Community Bookshelf.  Through this Community Bookshelf, I can trade poetry books--check it out HERE if you have spare poetry books!

BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer
TRISM by Rebecca Loudon
COLEMAN HAWKINS ORNETTE COLEMAN by Norma Cole
EATING IN THE UNDERWORLD by Rachel Zucker
5 SHADES OF GRAY by Eileen R. Tabios

Bought For Cents on the Dollar at A Library Sale:
HALF LIVES by Erica Jong
BIRTHDAY LETTERS by Ted Hughes
THE HEART OF A WOMAN by Maya Angelous
LIFE WORK by Donald Hall
BORDERLANDS/ LA FRONTERA by Gloria Anzaldua
LIKE THE PIECES OF DRIFTWOOD by Jon Francis
DARK CARD by Rebecca Foust
SEASONS AT EAGLE POND by Donald Hall
EZRA POUND AND HIS WORLD by Peter Ackroyd

POEMS FOR BIG, BURLY MEN!

I'm stuck at home as have to be around while this young guy fixes the air conditioner. He thought it cool I am a poet, and joked maybe I could write a poem for his girlfriend. Instead, I said that I’ll “fix him up” with an entire poetry book! (I have some-hah) signed to his girlfriend after he finishes the repair. That’s what poetry books are good for, you know—to ensure the repairmen (aka: “Big, Burly Men”) do a good job...


When I’m not out there shoving my books at Big, Burly Men, I’m buying other poets’ books! You should, too! In fact, I just ordered from Horse Less Press’ Two-Chaps-For-$14 Special (that’[s a good deal!). I ordered Rebecca Loudon’s and Norma Cole’s chaps! Speaking of which, here’s my latest update to my BOUGHT POETRY LIST (publications bought since I last posted my list):

MORE ADVENTURES IN MONOCHROME by John Yau

CRAZY BRAVE: A MEMOIR by Joy Harjo

MUTATING THE SIGNATURE: QUARRTSILUNI, edited by Dana Guthrie Martin and Dave Bonta

THE COUNTRY ROAD by James Laughlin

POEMS 1955-1959 AND AN ESSAY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Boris Pasternak

BONESHEPHERDS by Patrick Rosal

YEAR OF REVERSIBLE LOSS by Norma Farber

OUR LADY OF THE RUINS: POEMS by Traci Brimhall

FABRIC by Richard Froude

THE SOFT PLACE by Kate Schapira

CLOUDFANG :: CAKEDIRT by Daniela Olszewska

HERE IS A MINI-PARADE by Kate Schapira and Daniela Olszewska

SCENTED RUSHES by Nada Gordon

REGARDING WAVE by Gary Snyder

SILENCES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LOSS by Eileen R. Tabios

Yes, dears, I also occasionally buy my own books (which is good news as this means that I had to let go of my own inventory for some good cause like gifts or, in this case, because someone wants to review it!). But while I don’t mind giving away poetry books (especially to Big, Burly Men), it’s always special when someone buys them—you poets know what I’m talkin’ about!


P.S. I'm about to order Rene Ricard's LOVE POEMS because I was moved by Jack Kimball's post on him--love that idea by John Wieners: the time to write about love is as aftermath...

CROWDS FOR POETRY?

I am trying to join the 21st century.  Hence, I am watching closely some attempts at crowd-funding for poetry projects, partly because of the first item in the following update below to my Bought Poetry List.  It still seems to me that for crowd-funding to succeed there has to be crowds.  That's been a problem--this lack of crowds--for poetry, notwithstanding Horseless Press' recent success.  But I am delighted by their succcess and for now will focus on saying Congratulations! 

Now, let's buy Poetry!  Here's what I've done recently:

CLOUDFANG : : CAKEDIRT by Daniela Olszewska, THE SOFT PLACE by Kate Schapira and other HORSELESS PRESS publications viz Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2049449313/o-yes-daniela-olszewska-and-kate-schapira-horse-le


DISAPPOINTED PSALMS by Brian Clements


UNPROTECTED TEXTS by Tom Beckett


WELL THEN THERE NOW by Juliana Spahr


LIFE ON MARS: POEMS by Tracy K. Smith


DUENDE: POEMS by Tracy K. Smith


MIGRITUDE by Shailja Patel


SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS #9, Ed. Brian Johnson

PITTANCES FOR POETRY

I’ve long thought poetry hardbacks to be a silly exercise in cultural capital (even though they have value for library collections and other porpoises). Silly because, I bought two recently by Margaret Atwood and Robert Hass. Most poets’ books, of course, go immediately to paperback. I assume Atwood got the hardback because she’s also a successful novelist. Hass got his … actually, Hass got his deservedly, full stop.

But lookit—these hardbacks inevitably (and swiftly) go on the remainder bins. I spent $7.00 for the Hass Book which initially retailed for $34.99. I spent $5.00 for the Atwood which initially retailed for $25.00. Who are we all fooling with these hardback issuances anyway?

Speaking of more pittances for poetry, the rest of the purchased poetry books or books by poets in my new RECENTLY BOUGHT POETRY List below came from our local library sale. I purchased the John N. McDowell (a great read, by the way) for a buck. Then I purchased the rest on the sale’s last day which is one of those *Fill A Paper Bag With As Many Books As You Can Cram* for $3! This means the other 19 titles were purchased at about five cents per book! (No wonder I trade poetry!)

Well, Dear Poetry, I know you don’t really care (and I’m just amusing moiself with following your cash equivalents) because your valuation is so, ahem, difficult … precisely because you’re priceless! Anyhoo, so Moi recently bought:

THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Robert Hass

THE DOOR by Margaret Atwood

CLAY FEET / WIRE WINGS, poems by John N. McDowell

MARINA TSVETAEVA: THE DOUBLE BEAT OF HEAVEN AND HELL, biography by Lily Feiler

SYLVIA PLATH: A BIOGRAPHY by Linda K. Wagner-Martin

THE RING AND THE BOOK by Robert Browning with engravings by Carl Schultheiss

PRIMER FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS by Philip Metres

NATURAL HISTORIES by Leslie Ullman

THE TULIP SACRAMENT by Annah Sobelman

SAINTS OF HYSTERIA: A HALF-CENTURY OF COLLABORATIVE AMERICAN POETRY, co-edited by Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad

SELECTED POEMS OF RUMI, Translated by Reynolds A. Nicholson

THE SEPARATE NOTEBOOKS by Czeslaw Milosz, Translated by Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky

EROS: THE BITTERSWEET by Anne Carson

JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE by May Sarton

CAMPOCORTO by Peter Meinke with drawings by Jeanne Meinke

SELECTED POEMS IN FIVE SETS BY Laura Riding Jackson

SAPPHIC SONGS: SEVENTEEN TO SEVENTY by Elsa Gidlow

THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE by Madge PIercy

JEW BOY by Alan Kaufman

WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION by Brenda Knight

DEADLINE POET by Calvin Trillin

HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE by Jane Brox

What a bounty for a nickel each, yah? (That Philip Metres is a revelation! So happy to have it!) But this also reflects how these mostly-donated books don't make it into the library collection. So librarians aren't putting these books (some of which were hardback) into the library (what's wrong with this picture?). I always pick up all the poetry titles because I don't want to see them languishing and I know I may just be the only customer for poetry; at least Galatea will give them a home...

Oh, but by the way, it’s kind of cool to go to a library sale and see one of your poems in play! That is, I and Nick Carbo collaborated on a fabulous poem that ended up in SAINTS OF HYSTERIA: A HALF-CENTURY OF COLLABORATIVE AMERICAN POETRY, co-edited by Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad. Check out this anthology from Soft Skull Press—it’s really well-done, with notes on the collaborative process. So the poems are not just wonderful but the collaborative process notes are very useful and educational!

MOI CANCER-FREE MOM COACH-ES GABRIELA!

So, Coach has provided me with go-to bags over the years. I think it’s because my acquisition of my first Coach bag symbolized my then new adult independence. Plus, my first Coach bag was a black leather bag that kept getting tattered and all I had to do was send it to a Coach factory in New Jersey and they were always happy to repair it for free—I still have it today. Anyway, got a new Coach bag today and here is Gabriela trying it on:



Said bag was part of a retail celebration Mom and I embarked on this afternoon to celebrate this morning’s news: she’s now FREE OF CANCER! Wooooot! Promptly therewith, Mom decided to attempt to heal the economy with several purchases including my newest daily Coach!

But Mom didn’t just buy bags…or shoes….a watch for Michael…and various other sundries—she also purchased some poetry books for me … Which is to say, this of course was just a way to provide another update to my Recently Bought Poetry List, to wit:

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

HAVE by Marc Gaba

OLD WAYS TO FOLD NEW PAPER by Leza Lowitz

THE REAL SUBJECT: QUERIES AND CONJECTURES OF JACOB DELAFON WITH SAMPLE POEMS by Keith Waldrop

COLLECTED SONNETS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

TRANSFER by Naomi Shihab Nye

PERSPECTIVES ON A GRAFTED TREE: THOUGHTS FOR THOSE TOUCHED BY ADOPTION, poetry anthology edited by Patricia Irwin Johnston

For my blog file, I’ll also add my poetry purchases for Kindle (though these are free from Kindle):

LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman

POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE

THE ODYSSEY by Homer

ILIAD by Homer

Poetry purchases--it'll help keep the doctor away!

SUPPORT YOUR LIBRARIES!

Our local library has a holiday fundraiser where one can purchase an ornament to hang on their tree and with that purchase is the ability to write a message on a "leaf". Here's what Moi did on the fly:



Yeah: "Reading is healthy!"

Library fundraisers, of course, are worth supporting. My updated BOUGHT POETRY list below includes some that I recently purchased through the library fundraiser -- it's an indication of poetry's state of affairs that those books essentially were purchased for cents on the dollar (sigh: while I like the dollar-savings, I don't like the implications of "value" ascribed to the poetry books). Anyhoo, here they are:

SELECTED POEMS by Harvey Shapiro

RADIUS OF LIGHT by Joshua Auerbach

A POINT IS THAT WHICH HAS NO PART by Liz Waldner

THE BEAUTIFUL LESSON OF THE I by Frances Brent

THE GREAT ENIGMA: NEW COLLECTED POEMS by Tomas Transtrumer, Trans. by Robin Fulton

HOMECOMING: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS by Julia Alvarez


From Library Sale
TIME AND MATERIALS: POEMS 1997-2005 by Robert Hass

FULL HORIZON by Bruce McEver

THE SACRED GEOMETRY OF PEDESTRIANS by Ken Weisner

THE SWORDFISH TOOTH by Cynthia Zarin

FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON by Sherman Alexie

OBSERVE THE LARK by Katie Louchheim

TRAVELING IN REFLECTED LIGHT by Andrena Zawinski

ATLANTIS by Louis Dudek

A FURTHER RANGE by Robert Frost

THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2007, Guest Editor Heather McHugh

It wouldn't surprise me if I'm the only library patron that buys poetry books. Basically, when I see poetry in these fundraisers, I buy them all if they're poetry. At least they'll get a HOME better than the deaccessioned shelf.

RESURRECTING THOSE POETRY BOOKS!

I don't know why public libraries deaccession poetry books. It's not like said libraries are for-profit institutions so why treat poetry the same way as out-of-date computer books or unpopular light fiction? Librarians--ye inherently cultural activists!--just make those books available! Anyway, here's another poetry book I plucked from a library's "freebie" section -- they didn't even bother to put it on shelves where they stock books for modest fundraising sales (I guess they, too, know it's difficult to sell poetry ... which is not a reason to deaccession them!)



Yep, Billy Collins didn't fare well at this library. But that's okay, I've placed it on my Community Book Shelf where it can have a second life by being yours for trade! So much for Mr. Poetry Bestseller...!

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Great Recession poetry economics is even worse than the usual moronic oxymoron of poetry economics. For example, for the last fiscal year, I (as a poetry publisher) apparently generated net sales through SPD of $193.37. After covering my annual SPD distributor fee of $160, I net, yep, $33.37. Well, at least I ain’t in the red…

Nor do I want poetry publishers to be in the red! So I did my modest bit with this latest update to my BOUGHT POETRY List:

THE CURVED PLANKS: POEMS, A BILINGUAL EDITION by Yves Bonnefoy, Trans. by Hoyt Rogers

THE ERRANCY by Jorie Graham

THE BOOK OF MIRRORS by Frieda Hughes

STONEPICKER AND THE BOOK OF MIRRORS: POEMS by Frieda Hughes

PRACTICAL WATER by Brenda Hillman

Nevuh mind Black Friday. Give a poetry book or a book by a poet for the Holidays! For instance... As for Moi, I'm personally eye-ing THIS ONE as a Xmas present to moiself...! Because I know My Man! will not disappoint....! Do consider that a recommendation, too!


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'EDNA IS GOOD"

Yes, usually the word “bankers” elicits an Ugh nowadays. But yesterday my local banker made MOI DAY! I was talking about a banking problem (what else) with her and her computer was slow (of course). During said slow period, she chit-chatted with me as she’s personable … and Moi is personable, too. ‘Twas during that chit-chat that I mentioned my "business" Meritage Press and the Great Recession in poetry publishing and she replied by saying she’s bought a poetry book!

Yep. She’s bought a poetry book! Just to be sure my elation was not over-the-top, I asked whether she’s a poet when not doing her day job. Nope, she’s not a poet. AND SHE BOUGHT A POETRY BOOK!!!!!!

So, WOOOOOT!

I asked, which poet? She replied, “Edna … something.”

I enthusiastically riposted, “Ah. Edna St. Vincent Millay.”

“Yes,” she replied. “I read a poem and it spoke to me so I bought the book.”

Wisely, I offered my expert opinion: “Edna is good.”

Then we beamed brightly at each other.

Then her computer caught up with reality, and we returned to my banking problem.

But isn’t that great? I was so happy to meet a non-poet who voluntarily buys poetry books. Okay, maybe I should say “poetry book” as in singular. For all I know, that may be the only poetry book she’s ever bought. But, if so, she’s still ahead of general culture, yah?! So definitely worth a Nota Bene.

And speaking of which, here’s my latest list of recently-purchased poetry books or books by poets:

bough breaks by Tamiko Beyer

ROAD SONG FOR by Lars Palm

THE DESECRATION OF DOVES by Arlene Ang

ADOPTION PAPERS by Jackie Kay

KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista

PARTS AND OTHER PIECES by Tom Beckett

SILK EGG: COLLECTED NOVELS (2009-2009) by Eileen R. Tabios (As this blog is about Moi, I non-apologetically suggest you buy it, too! GO HERE for the ordering links through various venues.)

Sure, the list could be more voluminous. But how are you doing with your poetry purchases?

WE BUY BOOKS!

I'm finding it so moving to watch Michael "play" with his Kindle. I said before that his first purchase was Jon Krakauer's INTO THE WILD, a book that's a summer reading requirement by his future high school. He's uploaded some free educational games since, but he's also purchased now (for a mere $1.79!) THE COMPLETE MARK TWAIN COLLECTION (over 300 works). And I believe his next book purchase will be John Steinbeck's GRAPES OF WRATH (another recommended summer reading by his high school). That's moi boy! Studies show that the two biggest factors to contribute to a student's high school experience are (1) parental involvement, and (2) reading! Check and check!

As for Mama Moi, here's my latest BOUGHT POETRY List!

ELEVATORS by Rena Rosenwasser

PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT by Hazel White

AREAS OF FOG by Joseph Massey

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

SMALL SKY by Janice Sapigao

Poetry, Dear Peeps, is something to--in more ways than once!--buy!

THE MONEY MACHINE & POETRY...OR NOT

Just read Inside the Money Machine by Minnie Bruce Pratt (Carolina Wren Press, Durham, NC, 2011). It's like a poetry version of what Barbara Ehrenreich explored in her NICKEL AND DIMED and BAIT & SWITCHED books on the working class. One of the depressing reminders I take away from Pratt's book is how the typical price of a poetry book -- $15? $16? -- is really a hardship for many people.

That reminder, though, is another reason why I continue to be so impressed by a poet I know who dedicates 10% of hir total income a year to purchasing poetry books. I--who plan to read every poem every written--don't even do that.

But I try, and here's my latest BOUGHT POETRY list:

FIELD WORK -- NOTES, SONGS, POEMS 1997-2010 by David Hadbawnik

SO LATE, SO SOON: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Carol Moldaw

CULTURE OF ONE by Alice Notley

FABULAE by Joy Katz

GRAVE RADIANCE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1990-2010 by Elizabeth Alexander

UNPROTECTED TEXTS by Tom Beckett

SILK EGG: COLLECTED NOVELS (2009-2009) by Eileen R. Tabios (As this blog is about Moi, I non-apologetically suggest you buy it, too! GO HERE for the ordering links through various venues)

RECOMMENDED: MEMOIR AND ESSAY BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB

One poetry-related book I recently bought that was absolutely worth every single penny (yes, I was happy to pay full retail) is MEMOIR AND ESSAY by Michael Gottlieb. Enthralling. A page-turner. Kudos to Mr. Gottlieb and his publisher Faux Press / Other.

While it wasn't the main point of this coming-of-age tale, there was a point touched on in MEMOIR AND ESSAY that resonated with me as it's a topic that's always made me raise a wondering eyebrow -- it's how writers borrow AND THEN REFUSE TO RETURN books from other writers. In MEMOIR AND ESSAY, this incident made for amusing reading as Mr. Gottlieb suspected he was mentally inflating the value of one book just because the borrower insisted on keeping it.

This issue is also on moi mind because, recently, a writer asked for a copy of a book I released last century: REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE. When I said that I couldn't believe that writer (a good friend) didn't have a copy of such an old book, said writer explained that someone had borrowed her copy and just refused to return it! A compliment, Moi hopes, to the work....but there we go again with writers refusing to return books borrowed from other writers!

Nor is this the same as stealing books from a public library or a bookstore. They know that the book they're refusing to return is from another writer's personal library. I mean, for most writers, their personal library is one of their most treasured possessions--one would think borrowers would realize that!

Anyway, here's the rest of my updated list of recently bought poetry books or books by poets:

THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

A WORLDLY COUNTRY: NEW POEMS by John Ashbery

SEVEN NOTEBOOKS by Campbell McGrath

GILGAMESH by Stephen Mitchell

MEMOIR AND ESSAY by Michael Gottlieb

LOVELY, RASPBERRY by Aaron Belz

BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer (you should buy it, too! Special Discounted Release Offer HERE!)

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

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

SILK EGG: COLLECTED NOVELS (2009-2009) by Eileen R. Tabios (As this blog is about Moi, I non-apologetically suggest you buy it, too! GO HERE for the ordering links through various venues)

ON THE LIMITS OF MONEY

I offer below a list of poetry books or books of other genre by poets that I purchased in 2010. What's good about it is how it reflects an improvement from 2009's relatively paltry list.

Money doesn't reflect desire when it comes to my poetry-buying. While this list offers poets whose works I like and thus acquire, it also reflects books bought from no particularly strong desire to include in my poetry library (jest curiosity). For instance, some books were bought at a local public library sale for cents on the dollar, a price that makes me buy poetry without a particularly strong interest in such acquisition. Distribution does matter -- this list also reflects purchases gifted by Mom when we go shopping at a local Copperfield bookstore, which means my purchases are constrained by the universe of Copperfield's poetry buyer who has shown him/herself not to be particularly broadminded. Finally, I also buy poetry books for other people, e.g. through the Galatea Resurrects Publisher's Prize (which is not to say I wouldn't buy books on the list of this link for my own enjoyment).

So the list offers no particular picture of Moi, since I have too many alternative access to poetry books I actually will cherish, whether through gifts, trades or even review copies. Nonetheless, a list exists of my BOUGHT POETRY OR BOOKS BY POETS and so here it is for 2010. Unless stated otherwise, the books are poetry collections:

THE FAR MOSQUE by Kazim Ali

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

OPEN CLOSED OPEN by Yehuda Amichai

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

KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista

UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS 1978-2007 by Tom Beckett

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 (You should buy some, too! Special Release Offer Still Active HERE)

FLUX, CLOTH & FROTH, Vol. 2 (notes to poems) by John Bloomberg-Rissman (You should buy some, too! Special Release Offer Still Active HERE)

DAYS POEM, Vols. 1 and 2 by Allen Bramhall

QUINTESSENCE OF THE MINOR: SYMBOLIST POETRY IN ENGLISH, essay 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

NIGHTBIRDS by Garin Cycholl

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

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

AUTOPSY TURVY by Thomas Fink & Maya Diablo Mason

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

A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR by Jewel Kilcheer (it required poetry for me to know her last name...)

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

WISDOM OF THE LAST FARMER, memoir by poet David Mas Masumoto

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

TEXTURE NOTES by Sawako Nakayasu

IOWA by Travis Nichols

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

COOKING WITH ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES by Francis Raven

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

THE SINGERS & THE NOTES by Logan Ryan Smith

UNABLE TO FULLY CALIFORNIA by Larry Sawyer

KING OF THE JUNGLE by Zvi A. Sesling

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 (Please buy it, too! Available at Amazon U.S. and U.K., SPD, The Book Depository (U.K.) B & N, Ingram, Baker & Taylor, etc.--GO HERE or HERE (through Jan. 31, 2011) for the ordering links through various venues)

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

HERON/GIRLFRIEND by Jen Tynes

NATIVE GUARD by Natasha Trethewey

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

POEMCRAZY: FREEING YOUR LIFE WITH WORDS, essays by Susan G. Wooldridge

UNRELATED INDIVIDUALS FORMING A GROUP WAITING TO CROSS by Mark Yakich

EXHIBITS by John Yau

THE SECOND PERSON: POEMS by C. Dale Young

MORE FROM SERIES MAGRITTE by Mark Young

We're just about a week into the new year and I am happy to share that I've already started on the 2011 List! There should be no recession in Poetry!