Received (not always recently)
Books (Poetry)
Lidija Dimkovska, pH Neutral History, translated from the Macedonian by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 2012
Peter Filkins, The View We’re Granted, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2012
Jennifer H. Fortin, Mined Muzzle Velocity, Lowbrow Press, no location given (but Minnesota), 2011
Benjamin Friedlander, One Hundred Etudes, Edge Books, Washington, DC, 2012
Tinker Greene, Who I Was, self-published, San Francisco, 2012
Rob Halpern, Music for Porn, Nightboat Books, Callicoon, NY, 2012
Mark Harris, Burl: Haiku, Red Moon Press, Winchester, VA, 2012
Amy King, I Want to Make You Safe, Litmus Press, Brooklyn, 2011
A.L. Nielsen, Evacuation Routes: A User’s Guide, Escamotage Editions, no location, 2012
Richard Owens, Ballads, Habenicht Press, Buffalo, NY 2012
Ana Maria Shua, Without a Net, translated from the Spanish by Steven J Stewart, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, 2012
Cole Swensen, Stele, Post-Apollo Press, Sausalito, 2012
Lenore Weiss, Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island, West End Press, Albuquerque, 2012
Poetry Anthologies
Marco Giovenale, Giulio Marzaioli & Michele Zaffarano, Other Objects, translated from the Italian by the authors (Giovenale & Zaffarano) & by Sean Mark (Marzaioli), Blurb.com, 2012 (“this ‘blurb book’ doesn’t intend to be an actual book”) – unlisted on the Blurb.com site, but available from the authors in Rome
Books (Other)
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 2012
Miranda Mellis, The Spokes, Solid Objects, New York, 2012
Gail Scott, The Obituary, Nightboat Books, Callicoon, NY, 2012
James Wagner, The Idiocy: Plays, Esther Press, Marysville, CA, 2012
Kenneth Warren, Captain Poetry’s Sucker Punch: A Guide to the Homeric Punkhole, 1980 – 2012, introduction by Dale Smith, afterword by Ammiel Alcalay, BlazeVOX Books, Buffalo, 2012
Journals
Poetry, vol. 199, no. 2, November, 2011, Chicago. Includes Dean Young, Olivia Clare, Terese Svoboda, Marianne Boruch, John Koethe, Todd Boss, T. Zachary Cotler, Joanie Mackowski, Bruce Bond, Andrea Cohen, A. F. Moritz, David Shapiro, Farnoosh Fathi, Michael Robbins, and more
Vanitas 6: Latinitas, 2012, New York. Includes Micah Ballard, Steve Dalachinsky, Clayton Eshleman, Elaine Equi, Alan Halsey, Bob Holman, Ron Horning, John Latta, David Lehman, Joel Lewis, Lyn Lifshin, Gerard Malanga, David Meltzer, Amanda Nadelberg, Stephen Ratcliffe, Martial, Ariana Reines, Mario Schifano, Elsa Morante, Lorca, Blanchot, Raphael Rubinstein, Hal Sirowitz, Christopher Stackhouse, Sakra Boccata,Mónica de la Torre, Ovid, Pamplona,Tony Towle, John Tranter, Terence Winch, Rafael Ferrer, Juan Uslé Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Pino Solanas, Vivien Bittencourt, Saint Clair Cemin, Juan Gómez, Jan Henle and many more
Other Media & Formats
Monsterworld, Vol. 1, no location given (but we’re betting on Colorado Springs, CO), no date given, but sometime after 2010. 8.5x11x1.5” cardboard box filled with numerous ephemera, some of which appear to be one-of-a-kind items, others micropress projects, including chapbooks by Lisa Jarnot, Patrick Durgin, Calhan High School Creative Writing Department, an item from Mary Burger that is laced rather in the mode of tennis shoes, visual work by Mary Chessen, Amy Kassander, Francis King, some uncollated pages of writing with illustrations by Cleo Ngiam that are knockouts, another box that is 3.125x2.25x1” containing poem cards by Chris Vitiello, D Robert Lessig & Kelly Fowler (tho one card chastises Vitiello for failing to show), plus the remnants of a purple feather), a mini-microchap by Jesse Randall of poetry comics – wouldn’t be shocked to discover that different copies of this project have different contents.
Kazim Ali, The Door Between You, Fact-Simile Trading Cards, Philadelphia, 2012, trading card in the mode of baseball cards of the 1960s
Tom Clark, Turning, Fact-Simile Trading Cards, Philadelphia, 2012, trading card in the mode of baseball cards of the 1960s
Linh Dinh, Disappearing Poem 4, Fact-Simile Trading Cards, Philadelphia, 2010, trading card in the mode of baseball cards of the 1960s
Lyn Hejinian, Abandon, Fact-Simile Trading Cards, Philadelphia, 2012, trading card in the mode of baseball cards of the 1960s
Rozalie Hirs, Pulsars, voices Hirs & Arnold Marinnisen, Attacca, Amsterdam, 2010, CD
Fanny Howe, 26, Fact-Simile Trading Cards, Philadelphia, 2012, trading card in the mode of baseball cards of the 1960s
Hoa Nguyen, After the Song, Fact-Simile Trading Cards, Philadelphia, 2012, trading card in the mode of baseball cards of the 1960s
Elizabeth Robinson, On Anticipation, Fact-Simile Trading Cards, Philadelphia, 2010, trading card in the mode of baseball cards of the 1960s
NB: When I left my job in the computer industry last December, my intent was to get caught up in my lists of books received as quickly as possible. Events have conspired to make that more difficult than I had envisioned, but that is still the plan. One of the events was a flood in my study caused by a pipe that burst while I was in Rotterdam. While, thanks to my wife & one of my sons, I only lost maybe 150 books out of a total maybe of 10,000 due to water damage – a list that will show up here as well at some point – the whole library is currently stored in cartons while we go through the painstaking process of reconstructing my study and acquiring some additional shelving.
