As someone who has always – at least since I was 10 – been reading
a lot of books at one time, it’s rare that I don’t find at least one of the
current selection to be a long, thick, slog or otherwise deficient in some
aspect. Right now, however, I am in that rarified space of only reading books
that I think are terrific – good, if not great & really more of the latter
than the former. So I just thought I’d say thanks to all of these authors for
making this magical moment come about. Books involved include
- Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- Elizabeth Willis, Alive: New and Selected Poems
- J.H. Prynne, Poems
- Ken Taylor, Self-Portrait as Joseph Cornell
- Tomaž Šalamun, Soy Realidad
- Mathias Svalina, The Wine-Dark Sea
- Timothy Yu, 100 Chinese Silences
- Lyn Hejinian, The Unfollowing
- Khaty Xiong, Poor Anima
- Chimimanda Ngozi Adiche, Amerikanah
- Peter Middleton, Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry