Art Davidson | Minus 148 Degrees: First Winter Ascent of Mt. McKinley | Mountaineers | 1999
It turns out to be cold on Denali in the middle of the winter.
Laura Sims | Stranger | Fence | 2009
Mysterious, emotional, fragmentary arrangements. Not airy, incomplete friezes but freighted waves.
Rainier Werner Fassbinder | Berlin Alexanderplatz | Bavaria Film | 1980
Slowly watching all of his films. This one makes 30. The Fassbinder Foundation’s website is here.
Various authors and translators | Dichten = No. 10: 16 New (to American readers) German Poets | Burning Deck | 2008
Fantastic.
Sharon Mesmer | Annoying Diabetic Bitch | Combo Books | 2007
Accumulative energy, often created by anaphora, strong sense of line/line-breaks, formal rhetorical argument embedded in meant-to-shock content, with tinless ear.
Dee Molenaar | The Challenge of Rainier: A Record of the Explorations and Ascents, Triumphs and Tragedies | Mountaineers | 1979
The classic text of everything having to do with climbing the mountain. (I’m planning on climbing Rainier in 2010.)
Mike Gauthier | Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide | Mountaineers | 1999
Among other things, exceptional notational photographs of 39 of the routes.
Michael Burkard | Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990 | Nightboat Books | 2008
Where Ashbery, Vallejo, Kafka and Creeley meet.
Jerzy Pilch, translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston | The Mighty Angel | Open Letter | 2009
Just beginning this.
Bree Loewen | Pickets and Dead Men: Seasons on Rainier | Mountaineers | 2009
Rare story of a female climbing ranger on Mt. Rainier, covering the harsh elemental life of hard climbing, rescuing live and dead bodies, and your typical serving of human insensitivity. Self-deprecating, dogged, engaging.
Eleni Sikelianos | Body Clock | Coffee House | 2008
The real deal keeps dealing.
More James Wagner here.
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Art Davidson | Minus 148 Degrees: First Winter Ascent of Mt. McKinley | Mountaineers | 1999
It turns out to be cold on Denali in the middle of the winter.
Laura Sims | Stranger | Fence | 2009
Mysterious, emotional, fragmentary arrangements. Not airy, incomplete friezes but freighted waves.
Rainier Werner Fassbinder | Berlin Alexanderplatz | Bavaria Film | 1980
Slowly watching all of his films. This one makes 30. The Fassbinder Foundation’s website is here.
Various authors and translators | Dichten = No. 10: 16 New (to American readers) German Poets | Burning Deck | 2008
Fantastic.
Sharon Mesmer | Annoying Diabetic Bitch | Combo Books | 2007
Accumulative energy, often created by anaphora, strong sense of line/line-breaks, formal rhetorical argument embedded in meant-to-shock content, with tinless ear.
Dee Molenaar | The Challenge of Rainier: A Record of the Explorations and Ascents, Triumphs and Tragedies | Mountaineers | 1979
The classic text of everything having to do with climbing the mountain. (I’m planning on climbing Rainier in 2010.)
Mike Gauthier | Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide | Mountaineers | 1999
Among other things, exceptional notational photographs of 39 of the routes.
Michael Burkard | Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990 | Nightboat Books | 2008
Where Ashbery, Vallejo, Kafka and Creeley meet.
Jerzy Pilch, translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston | The Mighty Angel | Open Letter | 2009
Just beginning this.
Bree Loewen | Pickets and Dead Men: Seasons on Rainier | Mountaineers | 2009
Rare story of a female climbing ranger on Mt. Rainier, covering the harsh elemental life of hard climbing, rescuing live and dead bodies, and your typical serving of human insensitivity. Self-deprecating, dogged, engaging.
Eleni Sikelianos | Body Clock | Coffee House | 2008
The real deal keeps dealing.
More James Wagner here.
Written by Steve Evans
October 16, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Posted in Attention Span 2009, Commented List
Tagged with Art Davidson, Bill Johnston (trans.), Bree Loewen, Dee Molenaar, Eleni Sikelianos, Jerzy Pilch, Laura Sims, Michael Burkard, Mike Gauthier, Rainier Werner Fassbinder, Sharon Mesmer