Boxing Day 09 Favorite Books List
& the winner (aka my favorite favorite book of the year) is:
Kenneth Irby
THE INTENT ON
Collected Poems, 1962- 2006
672 pages; hardcover; gorgeous Thorpe Feidt painting on cover; designed by Jonathan Greene; $40.
Poetry
Douglas Rothschild, Theogony. subpress.
Dave Brinks, The Caveat Onus, meditations. Black Widow Press.
kari edwards, Bharat jiva. Belladodonna/Litmus.
Jerome Rothenberg, Gematria Complete. Marick Press.
Stacy Szymaszek, Hyperglossia, Litmus Press.
Robert Kelly, Fire Exit. Black Widow Press.
Anne Waldman, Manatee/Humanity. Penguin.
Anselm Berrigan, Free Cell. City Lights.
Hoa Nguyen, Hecate Lochia. Hot Whiskey Press.
Bill Lavender, Transfixion, Garrett County & Trembling Pillow Presses.
Lambert Schlechter, La robe de nudité. Éditions des vanneaux.
Nicole Brossard, Nicole Brossard: Selections. Introduction by Jennifer Moxley. “Poets for the Millennium” series, University of California Press.
cris cheek, part: short life housing. The Gig.
Non-Fiction
Emma Bernstein & Nona Aronowitz, Girldrive. Seal Press.
Theodor W. Adorno / Paul Celan, Correspondance. Traduit de l’allemand par Christophe David & présenté par Joachim Seng. Nous, Caen.
Jed Rasula, Modernism and Poetics Inspiration: The Shadow mouth. Palgrave MacMillan.
Harald Welzer, Les Guerres du Climat: Pourquoi on tue au XXIe siècle. Gallimard, Collection essais.
Michel Deguy, La fin dans le monde. Hermann, Le Bel Aujourd’hui.
The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, Part 9. Mode A, Detroit, 2009.
Breyten Breytenbach, Intimate Stranger. archipelago books.
Pauline Peretz, NEW YORK: Histoire, Promenade, Anthologie & Dictionnaire. 1300 pages, Collection “Bouquins,” Robert Laffont, Paris.
Abdelwahab Meddeb, Pari de Civilisation, Le Seuil, Paris.
Stéphane Ruspoli, Le livre “Tâwasîn” de Hallaj, Albouraq, Beirut.
Marjorie Perloff & Craig Dworkin, eds. The Sound of poetry / The Poetry of Sound, Chicago University Press.
Eliot Weinberger, Oranges & Peanuts for Sale. New Directions.
Translations
Mahmoud Darwish, A River Dies of Thirst, translated by Catherine Cobham. Archipelago Books.
Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tombeau of Ibn Arabi and White Traverses, translated by Charlotte Mandell, afterword by Jean-Luc Nancy, Fordham University Press.
Gherasim Luca, The Inventor of Love & Other Writings, translated by Julian & Laura Semilian, Introduction by Andrei Codrescu, essay by Petre Railenau, Black Widow Press.
Abdellatif Laâbi, Fragments of a Forgotten Genesis, translated by Nancy Hadfield and Gordon Hadfield. Leafe Press.
Cecilia Vicuña and Ernesto Livon-Grosman, editors, The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry. Oxford University Press.
The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry, ed. by Mark Weiss. University of California Press.
Art
George Quasha and Charles Stein, An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Words and Writings. Ediciones Poligrafa, 20_21 Collection.
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