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The Best Books of a Bunch of Years January 28, 2011: The nice thing about n + 1's "2010 in Books" roundup is that the editors don't even try to stick with books that were written in 2010. Instead of crudely assuming that the best books of the year are those notable books which happened, by some accident or other, to be published that year, each of the contributors writes a short blurb about a book [...]
File Under: Super-choette January 13, 2011: Check out Baudelaire's hand-written corrections and emendations to Fleurs de Mal. Cool, eh?
Boulder poetry bookstore only the third of its kind in the US January 11, 2011: ColoradoDaily reports on the opening of a new bookstore in Boulder where poetry alone occupies the shelves. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe is only the third such bookstore in the country, following Open Books in Seattle, Washington and Grolier's in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to Publisher's Weekly, there are indeed only two other [...]
Do As Lasky Does December 21, 2010: Poet Dorothea Lasky contributed a piece to The Millions' end of the year series "A Year in Reading." In it, Lasky writes about a few books that compelled her in '10, including books by Mary Ruefle, Laura Jensen, and Hannah Weiner. While the Weiner book, especially, is not so new (it came out in 1992, and was written in 1970), Lasky argues for why [...]
File Under: doesn’t actually function as satire December 15, 2010: Will McDonald, writing for the Royals Review, reported yesterday that Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford was going to open an antiquarian bookstore in Boston. McDonald claimed that Crawford was well-known as a collector and scholar of antiquarian books, a passion fed by some formative reading experiences: Crawford's passion for New England [...]
Best of 2010: Staff Picks December 13, 2010: Flowers, by Paul Killebrew (Canarium Books) “I’m so happy to have a body to fill these terrific pants...” —From “ILOVETHEWHOLEFUCKINWORLD” —Fred Sasaki (Associate Editor, Poetry magazine) * Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder (Copper Canyon Press) Silver Roses by Rachel Wetzsteon (Persea) I love love poems. I [...]
Poets’ Theater open to interpretation December 2, 2010: TimeOut Chicago's John Beer talks to Kenning Editions publisher Patrick Durgin about The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater, 1945–1985 released in January and edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. Beer points to the early days of theater, in which the idea of "poets' theater" may have seemed redundant. The modern theater, however, [...]
The Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison Guide to Deep Ecological Success December 2, 2010: Following up on their conversational documentary The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison carry over the discussion to book form in The Etiquette of Freedom. In SF Weekly, Jonathan Kiefer is pleased to find that despite a title that could signal "some crummy blowhard's latest George W. Bush–nostalgic gas blast of foreign-policy [...]
Caution: Ribaldry ahead November 29, 2010: Included in Dr. Gillian Wright's November 22nd Literary Manuscripts Masterclass at the Bodleian Library was a poetry manuscript attributed to Octavia Walsh (1677-1706). Notes in the catalog call into question whether Walsh actually wrote the poems due to their "ribald" nature, implicitly denying the possibility that women of the period could [...]
Tom Waits: Jockey full of bourbon, poet November 24, 2010: Tom Waits is collaborating with photojournalist Michael O'Brien on a book of poetry and photos about those who "live on the hard ground." A contemporary take on James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with the homeless as its subject rather than Dustbowl farmers and sharecroppers, this is Tom Waits's first book of [...]