Attention Span – G.C. Waldrep
I read dozens of poetry books, dozens of journals every year. The list that follows isn’t necessarily a list of recent books I “liked best,” but it is a list of the books I dreamed about, after.
Alice Notley | In the Pines | Penguin | 2007
Gennady Aygi, trans. Peter France | Field-Russia | New Directions | 2007
Gabriel Gudding | Rhode Island Notebook | Dalkey | 2007
Bin Ramke | Tendril | Omnidawn | 2007
Zachary Schomburg | The Man Suit | Black Ocean | 2007
Rosmarie Waldrop | Curves to the Apple | New Directions | 2006
Michael Burkard | Envelope of Night | Nightboat | 2008
George Oppen | Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers | California | 2007
Catherine Corman, ed. | Joseph Cornell’s Dreams | Exact Change | 2007
Daniil Kharms, trans. Matvei Yankelevich | Today I Wrote Nothing | Overlook | 2007
Joseph Lease | Broken World | Coffee House | 2007
Some others: Anne Boyer, The Romance of Happy Workers; Fanny Howe, The Lyrics; Johannes Goransson, A New Quarantine Will Take My Place; Cecily Parks, Field Folly Snow; Rusty Morrison, The Truth Keeps Calm Biding Its Story; Kristi Maxwell, Realm 64; Fredrik Nyberg, A Different Practice; Craig Morgan Teicher, Brenda Is in the Room; David Mutschlecner, Sign; Priscilla Sneff, O Woolly City; Tony Tost, Complex Sleep; Donald Revell, Thief of Strings; Noah Eli Gordon, A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow; C.S. Carrier, “Lyric”; Julie Doxsee, “Fog Quartets”; Jack Boettcher, “The Surveyic Hero”; etc.
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