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A Few of the Recent Books - 09/09
Many titles -- new and used -- have come into the store since last we wrote (was it June?, oh dear). We're happily reading and making notes about a number of those books and plan to share more of them with you in late September/early October. In the meantime, as the light begins to slant, we'll give you a taste of one of our summer pleasures, and then a list (that could be much longer) of some of the titles that have crossed our threshold.
By Myself: An Autobiography by D.A. Powell and David Trinidad ($9 Turtle Point) How can an autobiography be written by two people? And then be called By Myself? Here’s the answer: poets Powell and Trinidad stitched together one sentence each from 300 memoirs, creating a wonderful Pop-Culture-Rube-Goldberg sort of autobiography. Imagine a memoir co-authored by Gertrude Stein, Celine Dion, William Butler Yeats, Tina Sinatra, G. Gordon Liddy and 295 other famous(?) folk. Sources are included at the end of the book so you can learn where these particularly delicious sentences originally appeared. Here’s a taste of the delight that awaits -- "When I was addicted to birthday cakes, I worked out a method for finding out what flavor an uncut cake is on the inside. Unfortunately, that same clarity was missing from my love life." This book is a great campy read-aloud. And it absolutely must be a party game waiting to happen.
A LITTLE ALPHABETICAL LIST TO WHET THE APPETITE
Lucifer at the Starlite by Kim Addonizio ($23.95 Norton) A fifth poetry collection from the author of the recently published Ordinary Genius: A Guide to the Writer Within ($16.95 Norton).
A River Dies of Thirst by Mahmoud Darwish ($16 Archipelago Books) Poems, meditations, fragments, journal entries from the recently deceased and much lauded Palestinian poet.
A Village Life by Louise Gluck ($23 FSG) The eleventh collection from one of America's most compelling poets.
Practical Water by Brenda Hillman ($22.95 Wesleyan) The third volume in her impressive series of meditations on the elements.
Tsim Tsum by Sabrina Orah Mark ($14 Saturnalia) A new book from the author of the startlingly original The Babies.
A Plate of Chicken by Matthew Rohrer ($15 Ugly Duckling Presse) "A cool breeze comes from space. / I have to go up to the roof to polish the moon."
Scary, No Scary by Zachary Schomburg ($12.95 Black Ocean) The Portland, Oregon, poet's follow-up collection to The Man Suit, a small-press bestseller.
Stupid Hope by Jason Shinder ($15 Graywolf) His much-anticipated and, sadly, posthumous volume.
AND NOW IN PAPER
W.S. Meriwn's Pulitzer-winning The Shadow of Sirius ($16 Copper Canyon); Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms ($15.95 Ardis); The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe ($13.95 Norton); Frank O’Hara: Selected Poems ($17.95 Knopf).
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