Naughty and Nice: Holiday Literary Recommendations |
The poets, writers, and readers of poeticdiversity have come together again. In case you are looking for that special gift for the bibliophile or literati in your life, here is a list of books, cds, and literary journals (with subscription information) to make your upcoming holiday shopping experience a little easier. Those marked with an (*) are available at Amazon.com.
Special thanks to: Joseph Armstead, R.D. Armstrong, Peter A. Balaskas, Richard Beban, Julia Bemiss, Jennifer Calkins, Teresa Carmody, Jose Carrero, Jay Frankston, Robert L. Giron, Tré Giles, Ann Healey, Roger Humes, Elizabeth Iannaci, Gary Justice, Colin Kelley, Cheryl Klein, Deborah Kolodji, Tiffany Lettieri, Brendan Lorber, Deborah Lott, Tess. Lotta, B.D. Love, Terry McCarty, Matthew McGee, Richard Modiano, Greggory Moore, Nimah Nawwab, Milos Petrovic, Gareth Pike, Vanessa Place, Stephany Prodromides, Marie Rennard, Gina M. Ruiz, Dana Snow, Harvey Stanbrough, Jan Steckel, Tania van Schalkwyk, G. Murray Thomas, Florence Weinberger, Jackson Wheeler, and Kelley White.
Across 100 Mountains (*)
Reyna Grande
The Alchemy of Stars (*)
Roger Dutcher & Mike Allen
Always Danger (*)
David Hernadez
And Still I Rise (*)
Maya Angelou
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (*)
Nick Flynn
Anthology (*)
Leonard Cohen
The Aquariums of Pyongyang (*)
Kang Chol-hwan
The Ardors (*)
Kathleen Peirce
Art Objects (*)
Jeanette Winterson
At Caanan's Edge: Volume III of America During the King Years (*)
Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster
Altazor (*)
Vicente Huidobro (Spanish)
Becoming Abigail (*)
Chris Abani
Birds in Fall (*)
Brad Kessler
Blood Sisters (*)
Barbara & Stephanie Keating
Book of Longing (*)
Leonard Cohen
Blue Hour (*)
Carolyn Forche
Boys, Lost & Found: Stories (*)
Charles Casillo
Burton on Burton (*)
Tim Burton
Captivity (*)
Camille Guthrie
(Small Press Distribution www.spdbooks.org.)
Carnal Fragrance (*)
Florence Weinberger
Chez Nous (*)
Angie Estes
A Christmas Story (*)
Jay Frankston
(wlp@mcn.org)
Cloudless At First (*)
Hilda Morley
The Commuters (*)
Cheryl Klein
The Complete Films of Luis Bunuel (*)
Bill Krohn
Taschen
Conversations with John Schlesinger (*)
Ian Buruma
Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 (*)
Carolyn Kizer
The Countess of Flatbroke (*)
Mary Meriam
Modern Metrics (www.modern-metrics.com)
Crescent (*)
Diana Abu-Jaber
Dies: A Sentence (*)
Vanessa Place
(Les Figues Press www.lesfigues.com)
The Divide (*)
Nicholas Evans
Earthstepper: The Ocean is Very Shallow (*)
Seitlhamo Motsapi
Einstein's Dreams (*)
Alan Lightman
Endymion (*)
Dan Simmons
The Essential Rumi (*)
Coleman Barks (editor/compiler)
Every Night is Ladies' Night (*)
Michael Jaime-Becerra
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (*)
Lawrence Weschler
Exceptions and Melancholies (*)
Ralph Angel
F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspectives (*)
Ruth Prigozy
Feeding My Heart to the Wind (*)
Michael Kriesel
(Sunnyoutside Press, www.sunnyoutside.com)
Fever (*)
Richard Koertge
(Red Hen Press http://www.redhen.org/default.asp)
Flowers of the Moment (*)
Ko Un
Fun Home: A Tragicomic (*)
Allison Bechtel
Geek Love (*)
Katherine Dunn
Ghost Girl (*)
Amy Gerstler
Ghost Walk (*)
Heather Graham
Glacier Lily (*)
Chung Mi Kim
Global Frequency (Graphic Novel Series) (*)
Warren Ellis
Grammar of the Cage (*)
Pam Orr
(Les Figues Press www.lesfigues.com)
Grave Intent (*)
Deborah LeBlanc
Leisure (Dorchester)
The Haiku Apprentice (*)
Abigail Friedman
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (*)
Noam Chomsky
Here is Where We Meet (*)
John Berger
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (*)
Douglas Adams
A House Divided (*)
Deborah LeBlanc
Leisure (Dorchester)
House of Leaves (*)
Mark Z. Danielewski
How Successful People Win (*)
Ben Stein
The Imaginary Poets (*)
Alan Michael Parker (editor)
Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction (*)
David M. Fine
Inch Aeons (*)
Nuala Archer
(Les Figues Press www.lesfigues.com)
In Session: the Bond between Women and Their Therapists (*)
Deborah Lott
in the plain turn of the body make a sentence (*)
Sissy Boyd
(Les Figues Press www.lesfigues.com)
Last Call: The Legacy of Charles Bukowski
R.D. Armstrong (editor)
(Lummox Press, www.lummoxpress.com)
The Last Day of Paradise (*)
Kiki Denis
Le Trou Mahaut (*)
Orlando de Rudder
(available in french only)
Life of Pi (*)
Yann Martel
The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage (*)
Antoine de Saint Exupery
A Long Rainy Season: Haiku and Tanka (Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry Vol. 1) (*)
Leza Lowitz, Miyuki Aoyama and Akemi Tomioka (editors)
The Man in the High Castle (*)
Phillip K. Dick
Middlemarch (*)
George Eliot
Middlesex (*)
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Midnight Raymond Chandler (*)
Houghton Mifflin
(available through B & N.com under "used/out of print catagory)
The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland (*)
William Barillas
Mortal Engines (*)
Stanislaw Lem
Music of the Mill (*)
Luiz Rodriguez
The Nerve (*)
Glynn Maxwell
(Houghton Mifflin)
Nihilistic Foibles (*)
Marie Lecrivain
On the Tongue (*)
Jeff Mann
Ordinary Wisdom (*)
Eloise Klein Healy
Other Fish in the Sea (*)
Lisa Kusel
Paper Shredders (*)
G. Murray Thomas & Gary Wright
A Photographer's Life (*)
Annie Leibowitz
The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry (*)
Frank Stewart, ed.
(Copper Canyon Press)
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (*)
Jaqques Derrida
Poeta en San Francisco (*)
Barbara Jane Reyes
Prince of Nothing Trilogy: The Darkness That Comes Before, The Warrior Prophet, The Thousandfold Thought (*)
R. Scott Bakker
The Pyramids of Malpighi (*)
Steve Gehrke
The Quantum Zoo (*)
By Marcus Chown
Red Roses (*)
Ania Walwicz
Refusing Heaven (*)
Jack Gilbert
Requiem (*)
Teresa Carmody
(Les Figues Press www.lesfigues.com)
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (*)
Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter
Redux (*)
Roque Dalton
Run on Anything (spoken word cd)
Buddy Wakefield
(http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=88818217)
Selected Poems (*)
Rita Dove
The Selected Poems of Du Fu (*)
(trans. Watson)
Silent Voices Volumes I & II
(Ex Machina Press/www.exmachinapress.com)
Sleepyhead Assasins
Mindy Netiffee
(www.myspace.com/thecultofmindy)
Slippage (*)
Harlan Ellison
Slow To Burn (*)
Collin Kelley
(MetroMania Press, www.metromaniapress.com)
Speed the Plow (*)
David Mamet
A Story of Witchery (*)
Jennifer Calkins
(Les Figues Press www.lesfigues.com)
Strong Opinions (*)
Vladamir Nabakov
Sun-Tzu: The Art of War (*)
Roger T. Ames
The Tao of Physics (*)
By Fritjof Capra
Teahouse of the Almighty: Poems (*)
Patricia Smith
Tristram Shandy (*)
Laurence Sterne
To Feel Stuff (*)
Andrea Seigel
Twice Removed (*)
Ralph Angel
Ultramarine: Poems (*)
Raymond Carver
The Underwater Hospital (*)
Jan Steckel
The Unfurling (*)
Nimah Nawwab
Vellum: The Book of All Hours (*)
Hal Duncan
War Music (*)
Christopher Logue
Weaver (*)
Ekiwah Adler-Belendez
What I Want From You: Voices of East Bay Lesbian Poets (*)
Linda Zeiser & Trena Machado (editors)
RAW Art Press (email ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com or trena@rawartpress.com)
What the Living Do (*)
Marie Howe
What Narcissim Means to Me (*)
Tony Hoagland
What Came Before He Shot Her (*)
Elizabeth George
The Wisdom of Crowds (*)
By James Suroweicki
Literary Journals
Alaska Quarterly
http://aqr.uaa.alaska.edu/index.htm
American Drivel Review
http://www.americandrivelreview.com/
Black Warrior Review
http://webdelsol.com/bwr/
Brick
http://www.brickmag.com/
Citizen 32
http://www.citizen32.co.uk/
Forklift Ohio
www.forkliftohio.com
Lungfull
www.lungfull.org
The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/
Shenandoah
http://shenandoah.wlu.edu/
Subtropics
http://www.english.ufl.edu/subtropics/
Wisteria: A Journal of Haiku, Tanka and Senryu
Tony A. Thompson, editor
Wisteria
wisteriajournal@gmail.com
Zoetrope
http://www.all-story.com/
copyright 2006
Marie
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