CHRISTMAS BOOKS, 2015

Dear Son,

You, a college freshman, told us a story of a gentleman who often visits your campus and spreads books on a table to sell. We remember such booksellers, too, from our college days. And we are so moved that you thought to patronize this bookseller for holiday gifts to us this year. We are heartened because you not only chose well but also at the significance of you understanding the import of books. We are delighted at your growth and look forward to watching you continue to grow.  Thank you for your book-gifts this holiday. Mom appreciates the 1881 PIZARRO or the DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF PERU, and Dad the sci-fi fan appreciates his Star Trek novel.

Here is a list below of all the books that came into our house as holiday gifts. They shall join the Family Library which we hope will grace your house someday.

Love,

Mom & Dad

BOOKS FOR EILEEN

Poetry or by Poets

SELECT POEMS by John M. Bennett (Poetry Hotel Press and Luna Bisonte Productions, San Francisco / Columbus, OH, 2016)

SOME NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING by Anselm Berrigan (Edge, New York, 2005)

ROBERT FROST: A One-Volume Edition of the Authorized Biography by Lawrance Thompson and R.H. Winnick, Edited by Edward Connery Lathem (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1981)

THE ART OF MEMOIR by Mary Karr (Harper Collins, New York, 2015)

VOYAGE OF THE SABLE VENUS AND OTHER POEMS by Robin Coste Lewis (Knopf, New York, 2015)

KANSOZ by Joel Chace (Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, Newton-Le-Willows, U.K., 2015)

I MUST BE LIVING TWICE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Eileen Myles (ecco/HarperCollins, New York, 2015)

BENEDICTION by Alice Notley (Letter Machine Editions, Tucson, AZ, 2015)

NEGATIVITY’S KISS by Alice  Notley (Presses Universitairies de Rouen et du Havre, 2014)

APOLOGY: a novel by Jon Pineda (Milkweed Editions, 2013)

LITTLE ANODYNES by Jon Pineda (The University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 2015)

FOX: Poems 1998-2000 by Adrienne Rich (Norton, New York, 2001)

FLOATING LANTERNS by Mercedes Roffe, Trans. by Anne Deeny (Shearsman Books, Bristol, U.K., 2009)

THE VALISE by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino (Dead Academics Press, Columbus, GA, 2012)

ORDINARY LIGHT: A MEMOIR by Tracy K. Smith (Knopf, New York, 2015)

Art

WRITINGS INTERVIEWS by Richard Serra (University of Chicago Press, 1994)

RICHARD SERRA DRAWING: A Retrospective (The Menil Collection, Houston)

RICHARD SERRA SCULPTURE 1985-1998 Edited by Russell Ferguson, Anthony McCall and Clara Weyergraf-Serra (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, exhibition 20 Sept. 1998-3 Jan. 1999)

Sidenote from Mom: Dear Son, Dad thought it would be lovely to get me a signed edition of one of Richard Serra's books. He found on Ebay a signed version of SCULPTURE, which also amused us both as it was signed to an "Elaine." Thus, we could pretend it was signed to me with a name-typo. In all seriousness, your Mom loves to have the presence of artists' hands in the house and so I was delighted to receive this gift:

Others

PIZARRO or the DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF PERU, edited by Fred H. Allen (Cincinnati: Walden and Stowe. New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1881)

THE DECOLONIZED EYE: FILIPINO AMERICAN ART AND PERFORMANCE by Sarita Echavez See (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)

BEYOND THE NATION: DIASPORIC FILIPINO LITERATURE AND QUEER READING by Martin Joseph Ponce (New York University Press, New York / London, 2012)

THE DIARY OF A FORTY-NINER Edited by Chauncey L. Canfield (Turtle Point Press, New York, 1992)

GIRL IN THE GOLD CAMP: A TRUE ACCOUNT OF AN ALASKA ADVENTURE 1909-1910 by Peggy Rouch Dodson (Epicenter Press, Fairbanks / Seattle, 1996)

BOOKS FOR TOM

THE ABODE OF LIFE, a Star Trek novel by Lee Correy (Timescape/Pocket Books, New York, 1982)

THE LETTERS OF MOZART AND HIS FAMILY, Edited with an Introduction by Emily Anderson, Second Edition prepared by A. Hyatt King and Monica Carolan (MacMillan / St. Martin’s Press, 1996)

EURIPIDES: FRAGMENTS AEGEUS-MELEAGER, Edited and Translated by Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 2008)

EURIPIDES: CYCLOPS * ALCESTIS * MEDEA, Edited and Translated by David Kovacs  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1994)

HISTORIA AUGUSTA, Vol. I, Translated by David Magie (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1921)

SCRIPTORES HISTORIAE AUGUSTA II, Translated by David Magie (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924)

HISTORIA AUGUSTA, Vol. III, Translated by David Magie (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1932)

JOSEPHUS: JEWISH ANTIQUITIES, Book VII-VIII, Translated by Ralph Marcus  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1934)

JOSEPHUS: JEWISH ANTIQUITIES, Book XX, General Index, Translated by L.H. Feldman  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1965)

JOSEPHUS: JEWISH ANTIQUITIES, Books XII-XIII, Translated by Ralph Marcus  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1943)

JOSEPHUS: JEWISH ANTIQUITIES, Books 4-6, Translated by H. ST. J. Thackeray and  Ralph Marcus  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1934)

PROCOPIUS: HISTORY OF THE WARS, Books 5-6, 15, Translated by H.B. Dewing  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1919)

PROCOPIUS: HISTORY OF THE WARS, Books 7, 36-8, Translated by H.B. Dewing  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1928)

SICULUS: THE LIBRARY OF HISTORY, Books 1-2, 19, Translated by H.B. Dewing  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1914)

SICULUS: THE LIBRARY OF HISTORY, Books 1-2, 34, Translated by C.H. Oldfather  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1933)

SICULUS: THE LIBRARY OF HISTORY, Books XIV-XV, 19, Translated by C.H. Oldfather  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 19__)

SICULUS: THE LIBRARY OF HISTORY, Books XIX, 66-XX, Translated by Russel M. Geer  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 19__)

SICULUS: THE LIBRARY OF HISTORY, Books XII, 41-XIII, Translated by C.H. Oldfather  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1950)

ARISTOPHANES: ACHARNIANBS * KNIGHTS, Edited and Translated by Jeffrey Henderson (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1998)

HERODIAN: HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE, Books 5-8 Translated by C.R. Whittaker (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1970)

ZACHARY TAYLOR: SOLDIER OF THE REPUBLIC by Holman Hamilton (The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1941)

THE COMMAND OF THE AIR by Giulio Douhet (The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1994)

MISSION OF GRAVITY by Hal Clement (The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1987)

DUST by Charles Pellegrino (signed, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1998)

THE DAY THE MARTIANS CAME (signed, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1998)

BRIGHTNESS REEF (Book One of the Uplift Trilogy) by David Brin (signed, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1995)

THE LAST LEGENDS OF EARTH by A.A. Attanabio (signed, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1989)

THE OUTPOST by Mike Resnick (signed, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 2001)

MOVING MARS by Greg Bear (The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1995)

THE WINEMAKER by Richard G. Peterson (Meadowlark Publishing, California, 2015)

A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS by Neil MacGregor (Viking, 1996)

A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 12 MAPS by Jerry Brotton (Viking, 2012)

CIVIL WAR: DAY BY DAY w/ Introduction by Henry Steele Commager (Bison, 1989)

THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne, New York, 1991)

PUBLICATIONS FOR MICHAEL

ENDERS’ GAME by Orson Welles (signed. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn.)

ANALOG, science fiction fantasy journal (August 1977) containing a short story  precursor to the novel ENDERS’ GAME by Orson Welles

[Of related interest, HERE were the Holiday 2014 gift books.] 

Additional Labels: Spain and Latin America; Westerns (U.S.)

THE TALLY: MARCH 2015

Dear Son,

At the end of each month where I have posted, I list the books we addressed for that month.  For March, we noted eight books. So, so far we've noted 927 titles.  If 7,000 is the estimate for the number of books in the library, that means we only have 6,073 books to go!  We'll be reading for a long time!  Which is okay as, Son, that's a sort of Heaven in itself.  Here is March's List noted under each post's title:

BOOKS THAT CAME HOME:
MAN IS WOLF TO MAN: SURVIVING THE GULAG, memoir by Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson 

THE ART FORGER, novel by B.A. Shapiro 

THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY, novel by Gabrielle Zevin 

THE DESCARTES HIGHLANDS, novel by Eric Gamalinda 

ANGELICA'S DAUGHTERS, collaborative novel by  Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Erma Cuizon, Susan Evangelista, Veronica Montes and Nadine Sarreal 


THE MITZVAH PURCHASE:
SPINE STILL HOLDING by Bonnie Long

RESURRECTION by Nicole Cooley (

NEW COLLECTED POEMS by Eavan Boland 

BOOKS THAT CAME HOME

Dear Son,

Dad and I just returned from a trip to New York--I think it was our first trip away from you.  Oh yes, we missed you very much!

Son, whenever your Mom travels, she tends to pack a huge load of books with her to read during the airplane ride and at her destination.  She often packs books she's not sure she'd like from her huge To-Read List.  The reason she does so is so that she can just leave those books behind during her trip if she doesn't like them--she leaves them at the airport, in the hotels, in eating areas.... certainly there's the possibility that others might enjoy them and she doesn't mind that.  But she prefers not to return with books she didn't care for.  This strategy also helps lighten the luggage for the return home.

This trip to New York was interesting in that we returned home with every book your Mom packed and read.  So welcome these additions to our library and we hope you will enjoy them, too, in the future:

MAN IS WOLF TO MAN: SURVIVING THE GULAG, memoir by Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998) -- among other things, this book shows how much the human being can suffer and how one need not be toppled by suffering.

THE ART FORGER, novel by B.A. Shapiro (Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC, 2012) -- a fictitious story but with interesting details about real life art forgeries

THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY, novel by Gabrielle Zevin (Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC, 2014)-- your Mom is a sucker for fiction revolving around bookstores and this is a charming one

THE DESCARTES HIGHLANDS, novel by Eric Gamalinda (Akashic Books, Brooklyn, 2014) -- your Mom believes Eric Gamalinda is one of the greatest living writers today.  Do follow up on this book and also his poetry.

ANGELICA'S DAUGHTERS, collaborative novel by  Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Erma Cuizon, Susan Evangelista, Veronica Montes and Nadine Sarreal (Anvil Publishing, Pasig City, Philippines, 2010) -- the structure of this novel is interesting, styled a la the Filipino early 20th century "dugtungan" novel where each writer wrote a chapter, passed it on to another writer who'd write the next chapter and so on.  It may be a tad Chick Lit-ish for you but it's interesting to consider the structure: colaboration with others, Son, can be one of life's pleasures.

Love,

Mom and Dad

THE MITZVAH PURCHASE

Dear Son,

As you know we have devoted a good section of the library to poetry.  This morning, I acquired three more books, including the chapbook featured above: SPINE STILL HOLDING by Bonnie Long (Finishing Line Press, 2015).  It's a publication I might not have purchased, were it not for the coincidence of her entering the bookstore where I was perusing shelves.  Since it's a small store, I couldn't help but overhear her conversation with the bookseller -- that she hoped it would sell, etc.

Now,  it's difficult for poetry books to sell.  I also knew from coincidentally reading the article on her this morning that it's her first "book" publication.  So I purchased a copy, to her delight.  Since I didn't know her poems (yet), this is called a mitzvah, or an act of kindness (per Judaism).  Son, you must always be kind to poets if you ever stumble across them in situations where they are trying to sell one of the least marketable objects in existence: a poetry book.

I only wish now that I'd shown this poet what else I was buying -- I think she would have liked the company in which her chapbook found itself:

RESURRECTION by Nicole Cooley (Louisiana State University, 2006)
NEW COLLECTED POEMS by Eavan Boland (Norton, 2008)

Son, we hope you come to understand poetry enough to not just enjoy it but treasure it.

Love,
Mom and Dad

THE TALLY: DECEMBER 2014

Dear Son,

At the end of each month, I list the books we addressed for that month.  For December, we noted 345 books. So, so far we've noted 919 titles.  If 7,000 is the estimate for the number of books in the library, that means we only have 6,081 books to go!  We'll be reading for a long time!  Which is okay as, Son, that's a sort of Heaven in itself.  Here is December’s List noted under each post's title:

DECEMBER 2014

WE BUY POETRY (2014)

POETRY COLLECTIONS

HOURGLASS MUSEUM by Kelli Russell Agodon

PORT LIGHT: A HAY(NA)KU COLLECTION by William Allegrezza

THE REEF by Elizabeth Arnold

BINDWEED by Christianne Balk

AMULET by Jason Bayani

WATCHING THE WINDOWS SLEEP by Tantra Bensko

BOUGH BREAKS by Tamiko Beyer

EURYDICE’S SONG, poems by William Borden and monotypes by Douglas Kinsey

ECODEVIANCE: (SOMA)TICS FOR THE FUTURE WILDERNESS by CAConrad

A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: NEW (SOMA)TICS by CAConrad

COLLECTED POEMS by Joseph Ceravoloa 

NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND by Aime Cesaire, Translated and Edited by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith

CONTRABAND OF HOOPOE by Ewa Chrusciel

HOROSCOPES FOR THE DEAD by Billy Collins

THE BARONS by Joshua Corey

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES by Alfred Corn

NOTHING MORE TO LOSE by Najwan Darwish, Translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

POST SUBJECT: A FABLE by Oliver de la Paz

THE POETRY DEAL by Diane di Prima

GOOD HOPE ROAD by Stuart Dischell

WEAR WHITE AND GRIEVE by Jennifer Diskin

BLOWOUT by Denise Duhamel

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

GREAT GUNS by Farnoosh Fathi

PRESENTATION PIECE by Marilyn Hacker

THE OLD LIFE by Donald Hall

NOTEBOOKS OF A CHILE VERDE SMUGGLER by Juan Felipe Herrerra

SPONTANEOUS PARTICULARS: THE TELEPATHY OF ARCHIVES by Susan Howe

STRANDS by Keri Hulme

ODE TO THE HEART SMALLER THAN A PENCIL by Luisa A. Igloria

AGAINST THE EVIDENCE: SELECTED POEMS 1934-1994 by David Ignatow

A FORM OF OPTIMISM by Roy Jacobstein

THE COMPLETE POEMS by Randall Jarrell

ASTONISHMENTS: SELECTED POEMS OF ANNA KAMIENSKA, Edited and Translated by Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon

CONSTANCE: POEMS by Jane Kenyon

DOUBLESPACE: POEMS 1971-1989 by Hank Lazer

THE HOAX OF CONTAGION by Michael Leong

THE BLACK UNICORN by Audrey Lorde

THE LOST LUNAR BAEDEKER: POEMS OF MINA LOY

THE COUNTRY I REMEMBER by David Mason

TO KEEP TIME by Joseph Massey

MIDWINTER DAY by Bernadette Mayer

THE FEEL TRIO by Fred Moten

THE OPEN SECRET by Jennifer Moxley

CIVIL WAR POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY, Edited by Paul Negri

BLUETS by Maggie Nelson

DISOBEDIENCE by Alice Notley

GREEN AND GRAY by Geoffrey G. O’Brien

MISSING THE MOON by Bin Ramke

CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC by Claudia Rankine

DON’T LET ME BE LONELY: AN AMERICAN LYRIC by Claudia Rankine

NOTHING IN NATURE IS PRIVATE by Claudia Rankine

THE END OF THE ALPHABET: POEMS by Claudia Rankine

SMALL WORKS by Pam Rehm

THE DAY OF SHELLY’S DEATH by Renato Rosaldo

SOMETHING PERMANENT, photographs by Walker Evans and poetry by Cynthia Rylant

INTERVAL by Kaia Sand

THE CASTING OF BELLS by Jaroslav Seifert, Trans. From the Czech by Paul Jagasich & Tom O’Grady

FOR by Carol Snow

OF COLLOCATED RHYTHMS by Felino A. Soriano

V: WAVESON.NETS / LOSING L’UNA by Stephanie Strickland

147 MILLION ORPHANS (MMXI-MML) by Eileen R. Tabios

SUN STIGMATA (SCULPTURE POEMS) by Eileen R. Tabios

VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA: A STORM OF FILIPINO POETS, Edited by Eileen R. Tabios

NEAR CHANGES: POEMS by Mona Van Duyn

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

MEMORY HOLES by Erin Virgil  

BLINDSIGHT by Rosmarie Waldrop 

DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION by Rosmarie Waldrop 

SESTETS by Charles Wright

ARACHNID NEBULA by Mark Young

BOOKS IN OTHER GENRES BY, OR ON, POETS

AN ARMY OF LOVERS, novel by David Buuck and Juliana Spahr

RETRIEVALS, essays by Garrett Caples

E.E. CUMMINGS: A LIFE, biography by Susan Cheever

DICKINSON UNBOUND: PAPER, PROCESS, POETICS, literary study by Alexandra Socarides

THE DESCARTES HIGHLANDS, novel by Eric Gamalinda

APOPHALLATION SKETCHES: A THEATER OF AFFECTIVE EXTREMES / STRENUOUS ESSAYS FOR THE SENSES by j/j hastain

KULCHUR GIRL: NOTES FROM BERKELEY 1965, diary notes by Rachel Loden

THERE ARE THINGS WE LIVE AMONG: ESSAYS ON THE OBJECT WORLD by Jennifer Moxley

THE NOTHING THAT IS, autobiography by John Olson

HOW PHENOMENA APPEARS TO UNFOLD, essays and poetric pieces by Leslie Scalapino

WHAT POETS ARE LIKE: UP AND DOWN WITH THE WRITING LIFE, memoir by Gary Soto

MIDNIGHT PEACHES, TWO O’CLOCK PATIENCE, essays, poems and short stories by Janet Stickmon

CRUSHING SOFT RUBIES, memoir by Janet Stickmon

SIMPLY GREAT WRITING

FARM: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF THE AMERICAN FARMER by Richard Rhodes (Simon and Schuster, 1989)

CHRISTMAS BOOKS, 2014

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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)

BOOKS BY AND ON EVE ASCHHEIM

EPISODES WITH WAYNE THIEBAUD by Eve Aschheim and Chris Daubert (Black Square Editions, 2014)

EVE ASCHHEIM PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS (Weidle Verlag, 1999)

EVE ASCHHEIM: RECENT WORK (Black Square Editions, 2005)

NURSE DRAWINGS BY JENIFER K WOFFORD

HORATIO HORNBLOWER!

Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester

Ship of the Line by C.S. Forester

Flying Colours by C.S. Forester

POETRY REVIEW COPIES (so far 216) 

Issue No. 23

THE SPEED OF OUR LIVES by Grace C. Ocasio

OTHERWISE, MY LIFE IS ORDINARY by Bobby Byrd

THEY TALK ABOUT DEATH by Alessandra Bava

I DIDN’T KNOW MANI WAS A CONCEPTUALIST by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde

ON LIBERTY, REPRESSED by Tom Jenks

#! by Nick Montfort

THE SHAPE OF A BOX by Grace Curtis

BY THE HOURS: SELECTED POEMS EARLY & UNCOLLECTED by Eric Hoffman

THE AMERICAN EYE by Eric Hoffman

A STRANGER'S TABLE by Anne Brooke

THE WAY WE LIVE by Burt Kimmelman

IN THE ICE HOUSE by Genevieve Kaplan

SETTINGS FOR THESE SCENES by Genevieve Kaplan

TO KEEP TIME by Joseph Massey

MANUAL by Richard Berengarten

IMAGEMS 1 by Richard Berengarten

SALSA by Hsia Yu, Trans. from the Chinese by Steve Bradbury

AFTER-CAVE by Michelle DeTorie

POEMS FOR THE TIME CAPSUL, collected by David Watts

BOMBYONDER by Reb Livingston

DARK. SWEET. NEW & SELECTED POEMS by Linda Hogan

THROW   N by James Wagner and Bracha L. Ettinger

I ATE THE COSMOS FOR BREAKFAST by Melissa Studder

LIFE IN THE ORDOVICIAN: SELECTED POEMS by Robert Murphy

Issue No. 22

IMAGINED SONS by Carrie Etter

FATE LINES / DESIRE LINES by Caleb Puckett

THE ANTS by Sawako Nakayasu

INSECT COUNTRY (B) by Sawako Nakayasu

MEMORY HOLES by Erin Virgil

HOARD by Jaime Robles

COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS by Aram Saroyan (2^nd Edition), Edited by Aram Saroyan and James Hoff

SIX PORTRAITS by Julie Danho

Issue No. 21

A THING AMONG THINGS: THE ART OF JASPER JOHNS by John Yau

SISTER, BLOOD AND BONE by Paula Cary

THE UNFINISHED: BOOKS I-VI by Mark DuCharme

HE LOOKED BEYOND MY FAULTS AND SAW MY NEEDS by Leonard Gontarek

DÉJÀ VU DINER by Leonard Gontarek

PSYCHEDELIC NORWAY by John Colburn

THE CODICILS by Mark Young

WHAT THE STONES REMEMBER: A LIFE REDISCOVERED by Patrick Lane

BIG BAD ASTERISK* by Carlo Matos

NEW ORLEANS VARIATIONS & PARIS OUROBOROS by Paul Pines

DOOR OF THIN SKINS by Shira Dentz

HOUSES: A POEM by CB Follett

FROM BEHIND THE BLIND by Robert Murphy

pleth by j/j hastain and Marthe Reed

AND SO FOR YOU THERE IS NO HEARTBREAK by K. Lorraine Graham

Issue No. 20

MERIDIAN by Kathleen Jesme

CLARITY AND OTHER POEMS by Thomas Fink

THE ROMANCES AND OTHER POEMS by Micah Cavaleri

ROUNDING THE HUMAN by Linda Hogan

THE GRAPEVINE by Richard Lopez

WAXWINGS by Daniel Nathan Terry

RENEGADE // HEART by Lisa M. Cole

BRUSHSTROKES AND GLANCES by Djelloul Marbrook

ALL THIS FALLING AWAY by Tim Armentrout

ARSENIC LOBSTER: POETRY JOURNAL 2013, Issues 26, 27 & 28, Edited by Susan Yountz

MEMORY CARDS by Susan M. Schultz

THE BODY DOUBLE: A LONG POEM by Jared Harel

IN MIXED COMPANY by Caleb Puckett & Friends, Edited by Walter Ruhlmann and co-edited by Caleb Puckett

WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

AT THE TURNING OF THE LIGHT by CB Follett

VISIBLE BONES by CB Follett

ONE BIRD FALLING by CB Follett

MODULATIONS by Marton Koppany

ADDENDA by Marton Koppany

THE READER by Marton Koppany

PRIOR by James Berger

ITEMS by Tom Jenks

Issue No. 19

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LUCILLE CLIFTON 1965-2010, Edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser

MAY APPLE DEEP by Mmichael Sikkema

ANGLES OF INCIDENTS by Jon Curley

BENDING AT THE ELBOW by Matyei Yankelevich

COMMON TIME by Chris Pusateri

ARDOR: POEMS OF LIFE by Janine Canan

CLOUDFANG :: CAKEDIRT by Daniela Olszewska

CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE by Michael Leong

Issue No. 18

AS IF IT FELL FROM THE SUN: AN ETHERDOME ANTHOLOGY: TEN YEARS OF WOMEN’S WRITING, Edited by Colleen Lookingbill & Elizabeth Robinson

CHINOISERIE by Karen Rigby

100 POEMS by SS Prasad

DRAFT 96: VELOCITY by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

HAVE by Marc Gaba

CATCH LIGHT by Sarah O’Brien

WE / CUM :::: COME / IN THE YIELD FIELDS / AMONGST STATUES WITH INTERIOR ARMS by j/j/ hastain

ASYMPTOTIC LOVER // THERMODYNAMIC VENTS by j/j hastain

ENGINE EMPIRE by Cathy Park Hong

Issue No. 17

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT PAINTERS SHOULDN’T TALK: A GUSTONBOOK by Patrick James Dunagan

TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION by Andrea Rexilius

MY LIFE AS A DOLL by Elizabeth Kirschner

STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK WHICH DOES NOT MOVE by Matthew Cooperman

60 TEXTOS by Sarah Riggs

TEENY TINY #13, Edited by Amanda Laughtland

INSIDE THE MONEY MACHINE by Minnie Bruce Pratt

WAIFS AND STRAYS by Micah Ballard

RADIATOR by NF Huth

ALIENS: AN ISLAND by Uljana Wolf, Trans. by Monika Zobel

RED WALLS by James Tolan

INFO RATION by Stan Apps

BLUE COLLAR POET by G. Emil Reutter

THE ULTERIOR EDEN: A SERIES OF GENUFLECTIONS, RUMINATIONS AND GYROSCOPES by j/j hastain

Issue No. 16

SONJA SEKULA: GRACE IN A COW’S eye: A MEMOIR by Kathrin Schaeppi

FOR THE ORDINARY ARTIST: SHORT REVIEWS, OCCASIONAL PIECES & MORE by Bill Berkson

THE NEW POETICS by Mathew Timmons

100 SCENES by Tim Gaze

THE SOURCE by Noah Eli Gordon

THUS & by Derek Henderson

DOG EAR by Erica Baum

X (ANGEL CITY) by Joseph Lease

BONE BOUQUET: A JOURNAL OF POETRY BY WOMEN, Vol. 1, Issue 1

THE HISTORY OF VIOLETS by Marosa Di Giorgio, Trans. by Jeannine Marie Pitas

NOVALESS (ELEMENTS TOWARDS A METAPHYSICS) by Nicholas Manning

CHAPTER & VERSE: POEMS OF JEWISH IDENTITY, Edited by Sim Warkov, Rose Black, Margaret Kaufman, Melanie Maier & Susan Terris

BLOOD HONEY by Chana Bloch

Issue No. 15

HAD SLAVES by Catherine Sasanov

1000 SONNETS by Tim Atkins

2^nd NOTICE OF MODIFICATIONS TO TEXT OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS by John Bloomberg-Rissman

REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD by Oliver de la Paz

LYNN BEHRENDTS’S REVIEW OF ANNE GORRICK’S I-FORMATION BOOK I

APPARITION POEMS by Adam Fieled

BEHAVE: CALIFORNIA RANT 66  by Steve Tills

AT TROTSKY’S FUNERAL by Mark Young

DIWATA by Barbara Jane Reyes

KING OF THE JUNGLE by Zvi A. Sesling

Issue No. 14

BHARAT JIVA by kari Edwards

NO GENDER (REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF kari Edwards), Edited by Julian Brolaski, Erica kaufman and E. Tracy Grinnell

GENJI MONOGATARI by Mark Young

NTST: THE COLLECTED PWOERMDS OF GEOF HUTH

DESTRUCTION MYTH by Mathias Svalina

CREATION MYTH by Mathias Svalina

EASY EDEN by Micah Ballard and Patrick James Dunagan

INSIDES SHE SWALLOWED by Sasha Pimentel Chacon

EASTER SUNDAY by Barbara Jane Reyes

SIMON J. ORTIZ: A POETIC LEGACY OF INDIGENOUS CONTINUANCE, Co-Edited by Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez and Evelina Zuni Lucero

TIME OF SKY / CASTLES IN THE AIR by Ayane Kawata, Translated by Sawako Nakayasu

NINETEEN HOURS (RADIO EDIT) by Jim Warner

A MUSICS by Carrie Hunter

THE OTHER BLUEBOOK: ON THE HIGH SEAS OF DISCOVERY by Reme Grefalda

Issue No. 13

ANALFABETO / AN ALPHABET by Ellen Baxt

WATER THE MOON by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

HI HIGHER HYPERBOLE by Nicholas Manning

TRUST by Liz Waldner

Issue No. 12

OBSOLETE—AN ALPHABET OF POEMS INSPIRED BY DEAD WORDS by Katie Haegele

DISCLOSURE by Dana Teen Lomax

PORTRAIT AND DREAM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Bill Berkson

OPEN NIGHT by Aaron Lowinger

LUNCH POEMS by Mark Young

DELTA BLUES by Skip Fox

PLAIGARISM/OUTSOURCE by Tan Lin

Issue No. 11

DEMENTIA BLOG by Susan M. Schultz

HALLUCINATING CALIFORNIA by Richard Lopez and Jonathan Hayes

TORCHWOOD by Jill Magi

RED by Marilyn R. Rosenberg

Issue No. 10

ENDGAMES by Marton Koppany

& PERSONA, poems by Mackenzie Carignan and photographs by Felicia Ohnmacht

BE THAT EMPTY: APOLOGIA FOR AIR by Alice B. Fogel

THEORY OF COLORS by Mercedes Roffe

FORGET READING by Anthony Hawley

ORANGES & SARDINES, Summer 2008, Vol. 1, Edited by David Krump, Andy Nicholson, Meghan Punschke and Didi Menendez

RAFETOWN GEORGICS by Garin Cycholl

ORGY IN THE BEEF CLOSET by Michael Koshkin

Issue No. 9

MAUVE SEA-ORCHIDS by Lila Zemborainn, Trans. by Rosa Alcala and Monica de la Torre

IMAGINING A BABY by Bob Marcacci

ZAMBOANGUENA by Corrine Fitzpatrick

MY NAME IS ESTHER CLARA By Laurel Johnson

FOURSQUARE SPECIAL EDITION OF FIVE POEMS by Maureen Thorson

HERE, LOVE by Jess Rowan

AN ARCHITECTURE by Chad Sweeney

CLEAVING by Dion Farquhar

2 POEMS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL by Logan Ryan Smith

LIST’N by Karri Kokko

THE HEART THAT LIES OUTSIDE THE BODY by Stephanie Lenox

BEHIND THE WHEEL: POEMS ABOUT DRIVING by Janet S. Wong

Issue No. 8

AMIGO WARFARE by Eric Gamalinda

ZERO GRAVITY by Eric Gamalinda

WANTON TEXTILES by Reb Livingston and Ravi Shankar

HUMAN SCALE by Michael Kelleher

PUBLIC ACCESS #1 Edited by Nicholas Grider

FREE by Amanda Laughtland

BELOVED INTEGER by Michelle Naka Pierce

Issue No. 7

THE STEAM SEQUENCE by Carly Sachs

BROKEN/OPEN by Jill Jones

BELLUM LETTERS by Michelle Detorie

ERRATUM to and including A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF YEARS (LEVIATHAN PRESS, 2001) by Giles Goodland

Issue No. 6

POET’S BOOKSHELF: CONTEMPORARY POETS ON BOOKS THAT SHAPED THEIR ART Edited by Peter Davis

With Denise Levertov, IN A DYBBUK’S RAINCOAT: COLLECTED POEMS BY BERT MEYERS

WALKING THEORY by Stephen Vincent

THE IMMACULATE AUTOPSY by Todd Melicker

FORTY-FIVE by Frieda Hughes

THE JUROR by George Dawes Green

WHAT’S THE MATTER by Jordan Stempleman

LITTLE WAR MACHINE by M Sarki

PARTS OF THE JOURNAL: NIGHT by Richard Lopez

POETRY DAILY ESSENTIALS 2007 by Diane Boller and Don Selby

Issue No. 5

FIRST ADVENTURES OF COL AND SEM by Dan Waber

THE ALLEGREZZA FICCIONES by Mark Young

WIND IS WIND AND RAIN IS RAIN by Brynne

BODY OF CRIMSON LEAVES by Celia Homesley

THE PLANT WATERER AND OTHER THINGS IN COMMON by Kathryn Rantala

THE GRACES by Elizabeth Treadwell

SONNET by Matt Hart

Issue No. 4

SCRAWL by Susana Gardner

BOYS, A-Z: A PRIMER by Dan Waber

NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY by Thomas Fink

OTAGES by John Bloomberg-Rissman

SIGNED EVEN AS A WAITING by Paul Klinger

A PLACE TO STAND by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Issue No. 3

INSECT COUNTRY (A) by Sawako Nakayasu

SLIP by Christopher Stackhouse

IN THE WEAVER’S VALLEY by William Allegrezza

Issue No. 2

MORAINE by Joanne Fuhrman

RUSTLE OF BAMBOO LEAVES: SELECTED HAIKU AND OTHER POEMS by Victor P. Gendrano

Issue No. 1

TRANSITORY by Jane Augustine