Books I took with me to the west coast.

 

Poetry

·         Flemish School, Old Paris, & Night & Its Spells, Aloysius Bertrand

·         Far Out West, Clark Coolidge

·         Culture, Dan Davidson

·         Million Poems Journal, Jordan Davis

·         Letters: Poems 1953-1956, Robert Duncan

·         Drafts 1-38, Toll, Rachel Blau DuPlessis

·         Sugar Pill, Drew Gardner*

·         Push the Mule, John Godfrey

·         V. Imp., Nada Gordon

·         Inventions of Necessity: Selected Poems, Jonathan Greene*

·         Miniatures and Other Poems, Barbara Guest*

·         A Border Comedy, Lyn Hejinian*

·         Slide Rule, Jen Hofer

·         The Shrubberies, Ronald Johnson*

·         SOUND / (system), Stephen Ratcliffe

·         At Andy's, George Stanley*

·         Reproduction of the Empty Flagpole, Eileen Tabios

 

Criticism

·         The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics, Barrett Watten

 

Fiction

·         Almost a Gentleman, Pam Rosenthal

 

Also, I started one additional book I was given while out west, Leslie Scalapino’s Zither & Autobiography. Putting a genre category around Scalapino’s work is normally an activity fraught with peril, but I can report that the “Autobiography” portion of Zither & Autobiography is precisely as advertised. It’s also riveting.

 

Almost a Gentleman is erotic romance fiction, a genuine bodice ripper. I note today for the first time that I’m thanked in the acknowledgements to both that book & to The Constructivist Moment, about which I’ve written here previously. Can we say range?

 

 

* = completed reading while in California.