CHRISTMAS BOOKS, 2014

Dear Son,

As you know, we love to read and to encourage you (and others) to read.  So our typical Christmas is always a bookish one.  Here is the list of books we all received this Christmas, which will become part of the family library as well:

BOOKS FOR MICHAEL, TOM AND EILEEN

SWEET PROMISED LAND by Robert Laxalt (University of Nevada Press, 1959)

HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by George Orwell (Benediction Classics/Oxford, 2010)

BOOKS FOR EILEEN

(Some books are in transit; list will be updated when they arrive)
Poetry:

DISOBEDIENCE by Alice Notley (Penguin, 2001)

RELIQUARIA by R.A. Villanueva (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)

DON’T LET ME BE LONELY: AN AMERICAN LYRIC by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf, 2004)

THE OPEN SECRET by Jennifer Moxley (Flood Editions, Chicago, 2014)

ECODEVIANCE: (SOMA)TICS FOR THE FUTURE WILDERNESS by CAConrad (Wave, Seattle and New York, 2014)

A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: NEW (SOMA)TICS by CAConrad (Wave, Seattle and New York, 2012)

THE DAY OF SHELLY’S DEATH by Renato Rosaldo (Duke University Press, 2014)

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LARRY EIGNER, VOLUMES 1-4, Edited by Curtis Faville and Bob Grenier

GREAT GUNS by Farnoosh Fathi (Canarium Books, Ann Arbor / Stuttgart / Iowa City, 2013)

SPONTANEOUS PARTICULARS: THE TELEPATHY OF ARCHIVES by Susan Howe (Christine Burgin / New Directions, New York, 2014)

DICKINSON UNBOUND: PAPER, PROCESS, POETICS by Alexandra Socarides (Oxford University Press, 2012)

APOPHALLATION SKETCHES: A THEATER OF AFFECTIVE EXTREMES / STRENUOUS ESSAYS FOR THE SENSES by j/j hastain (Nous-zot Press, 2014)

POST SUBJECT: A FABLE by Oliver de la Paz (The University of Akron Press, Akron, OH, 2014)

HOURGLASS MUSEUM by Kelli Russell Agodon (White Pine Press, Buffalo, N.Y., 2014)

KULCHUR GIRL: NOTES FROM BERKELEY 1965 by Rachel Loden

ABU GHRAIB ARIAS by Philip Metres

BLUETS by Maggie Nelson (Wave, Seattle and New York, 2009)

ODE TO THE HEART SMALLER THAN A PENCIL by Luisa A. Igloria (Utah State University Press, 2014)

Non-Poetry:

MAN IS WOLF TO MAN: SURVIVING THE GULAG by Janusz Bordach and Kathleen Gleeson (University of California Press, 1999)

GIRL DRIVE: CRISS-CROSSING AMERICA, REDEFINING FEMINISM by Nona Willis Aronowitz & Emma Bee Bernstein

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkwood, 2013)

AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE U.S. by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (Beacon Press, Boston, 2014)

TOMORROW’S MEMORIES: A DIARY 1924-1928 by Angeles Monrayo, Edited by Rizaline R. Raymundo (University of Hawai’i Press, 2003)

THE DESCARTES HIGHLANDS, novel by Eric Gamalinda (Akashic, 2014)

THE ART FORGER, novel by B.A. Shapiro (Algonquin, Chapel Hill, NC, 2012)

PULSE, novel by Robert Cook (Royal Wulff Publishing, 2014)

TEXTS FROM JANE EYRE AND OTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR FAVORITE LITERARY CHARACTER by Mallory Ortberg (Henry Holt, 2014)

BOOKS FOR MICHAEL 

MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury (Signed Edition released by Easton Press)

THE WINE REGION OF RIOJA by Ana Fabiano

CULINARIA SPAIN, Ed. Marion Trutter, Potography by Gunter Beer, Art by Peter Feierabend, Coordinator & Layout by Michael Ditter

STRENGTH TRAINING ANATOMY by Frederic Delouier

BOOKS FOR TOM

THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCHER CHURCHILL: VISIONS OF GLORY 1874-1932 by William Manchester (Little Brown, 1983)

THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCHER CHURCHILL: ALONE 1932-1940 by William Manchester (Little Brown, 1988)

THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCHER CHURCHILL: DEFENDER OF THE REALM 1940-1965 by William Manchester and Paul Reid (Little Brown, 2012)

MEMORIES by Fannie A. Beers (Collectors Library of the Civil War / Time Life, Reprinted from Press of J.B. Lipincott Co., Philadelphia, 1888)

CIVIL WAR POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY, Editor Paul Negri (Dover Thrift Editions, 1997)

MR. LINCOLN GOES TO WAR by William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)

LINCOLN’S DARKEST YEAR: THE WAR IN 1862 by William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin, 2008)

THE GREAT TASK REMAINING: THE THIRD YEAR OF LINCOLN’S WAR by William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin, 2010)

ARISTOTLE: PARTS OF ANIMALS, MOVEMENT OF ANIMALS, PROGRESSION OF ANIMALS, Trans. by A.L. Peck & E.S. Forster (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1937-1961)

THUCYDIDES: HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, BOOKS 1-2, Trans. by C.F. Smith (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1919-2003)

HOMER: ILIAD, Books 1-12 (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1999)

CICERO: ORATIONS PRO SESTIO IN VATINIUM, Trans. by R. Gardner (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1958)

BOETHIUS: TRACTATES, DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIAE, Trans. by H.F. Stewart & E.K. Rand (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1918-1968)

THE NATURAL CUISINE OF GEORGES BLANC, photography by Christopher Baker (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1987)

A CENTURY OF WINE, THE STORY OF THE WINE REVOLUTION, General Editor Stephen Brook with Foreword by Hugh Johnson (Octopus Publishing, London, 2000)

AN IDEAL WINE: ONE GENERATION’S PURSUIT OF PERFECTION—AND PROFIT—IN CALIFORNIA by David Darlington (Harper Collilns, 2011)

THE JUICE: VINUOUS VERITAS by Jay McInerney (Knopf, N.Y., 2012)

GREAT COURSES (Books as DVDs):

36 REVOLUTIONARY FIGURES OF HISTORY

GREECE AND ROME: AN INTEGRATED HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN

THE CONSERVATIVE TRADITION

A HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Son, you will rarely be bored if you are a reader.  We hope you will not live a boring life.

Love,

Mom and Dad

P.S.  Trust Mom to sneak poetry into Dad's Civil War Collection: