Jennifer Moxley | Coastal | The Song Cave | 2011
Brutally honest, and masterfully formed. It feels intimate and distant at once. I read it five times in a day trying to figure out how she strikes that balance.
Linda Norton | The Public Gardens | Pressed Wafer | 2011
I’ve been waiting for and needing this book for years. The voices of Boston and Brooklyn. Mixing genres sweetly, powerfully.
Dawn Lundy Martin | Discipline | Nightboat | 2011
One of the strongest uses of the prose poem I’ve seen maybe ever. Each page hits it.
John Keene | Annotations | New Directions | 1995
Gorgeous language. The sentence is played like a viola. Fast, unexpected, but deeply connected.
Michael Ondaatje | Coming Through the Slaughter | Vintage | 1976
Reading this for the first time. Stunned by the surprises of it, the shifting voices, and by its musicality.
Tim Roberts | Drizzle Pocket | Blazevox | 2011
Though I am married to the author, the book is by someone I only meet by reading it. Scary and great and unlike anything else I’ve ever read.
Noah Eli Gordon | The Source | Futurepoem | 2011
Though this is a procedural work, the poems press way beyond their method. This is my favorite of Noah’s books. It’s funny and sharp, but in many moments also quite meditative and moving.
Lydia Davis | The Collected Stories | Picador| 2010
This is the first time I’ve really gotten all the way into Lydia Davis, and I read every story in this 752 page book in three days. In my favorite ones, the speaker is estranged, lonely, and frightened. A good book to bring on a midlife crisis.
Caroline Bergvall | Reading at Naropa | Naropa SWP | 2010
Caroline’s new book, Meddle English (Nightboat, 2011), is amazing. But I am reporting on hearing her read from it. I would travel pretty far to hear her again. One of those readings that will stay with me a very long time. Life giving.
Eileen Myles | The Inferno | O/R Books | 2010
Um. Pure pleasure—and a little embarrassing to read on an airplane when someone’s looking over your shoulder.
Joseph Lease | Testify | Coffee House | 2011
I blurbed this book, so to paraphrase myself: political/personal poems that matter and sing. Tough and necessary.
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Julie Carr is the author of Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines and 100 Notes on Violence and co-publisher with Tim Roberts of Counterpath Press.
Carr’s Attention Span for 2010. Back to 2011 directory.
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Jennifer Moxley | Coastal | The Song Cave | 2011
Brutally honest, and masterfully formed. It feels intimate and distant at once. I read it five times in a day trying to figure out how she strikes that balance.
Linda Norton | The Public Gardens | Pressed Wafer | 2011
I’ve been waiting for and needing this book for years. The voices of Boston and Brooklyn. Mixing genres sweetly, powerfully.
Dawn Lundy Martin | Discipline | Nightboat | 2011
One of the strongest uses of the prose poem I’ve seen maybe ever. Each page hits it.
John Keene | Annotations | New Directions | 1995
Gorgeous language. The sentence is played like a viola. Fast, unexpected, but deeply connected.
Michael Ondaatje | Coming Through the Slaughter | Vintage | 1976
Reading this for the first time. Stunned by the surprises of it, the shifting voices, and by its musicality.
Tim Roberts | Drizzle Pocket | Blazevox | 2011
Though I am married to the author, the book is by someone I only meet by reading it. Scary and great and unlike anything else I’ve ever read.
Noah Eli Gordon | The Source | Futurepoem | 2011
Though this is a procedural work, the poems press way beyond their method. This is my favorite of Noah’s books. It’s funny and sharp, but in many moments also quite meditative and moving.
Lydia Davis | The Collected Stories | Picador| 2010
This is the first time I’ve really gotten all the way into Lydia Davis, and I read every story in this 752 page book in three days. In my favorite ones, the speaker is estranged, lonely, and frightened. A good book to bring on a midlife crisis.
Caroline Bergvall | Reading at Naropa | Naropa SWP | 2010
Caroline’s new book, Meddle English (Nightboat, 2011), is amazing. But I am reporting on hearing her read from it. I would travel pretty far to hear her again. One of those readings that will stay with me a very long time. Life giving.
Eileen Myles | The Inferno | O/R Books | 2010
Um. Pure pleasure—and a little embarrassing to read on an airplane when someone’s looking over your shoulder.
Joseph Lease | Testify | Coffee House | 2011
I blurbed this book, so to paraphrase myself: political/personal poems that matter and sing. Tough and necessary.
§
Julie Carr is the author of Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines and 100 Notes on Violence and co-publisher with Tim Roberts of Counterpath Press.
Carr’s Attention Span for 2010. Back to 2011 directory.
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September 21, 2011 at 3:25 pm
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