false 2 15 15 true 6256989 read 0 true 558797 currently-reading 0 true 558796 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4321393 to: Death Tractates (Wesleyan Poetry) by Brenda Hillman
This is the most insightful, accurate, and yet mystical account of grief I've ever read. I heard Hillman read in the spring of 2000, and, in a discussion of her interest in gnosticism, she observed of her dead friend (the inspiration for this book), "It's not that she's far away - it's that she's unavailable." She gets it. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4321287 to: Loose Sugar (Wesleyan Poetry) by Brenda Hillman
The visual form of these poems (spacing, font, tabs, et cetera) is really innovative, and it stretched me as a writer at a time when, as my poetry professor put it, I kept submitting safe, "polished little gold nugget poems" at every workshop. It's good to change things up every so often. Hillman is naughty, erudite, and adventurous here. Lovely! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4321193 to: What the Living Do: Poems (Paperback) by Marie Howe
Howe tackles some rough issues in these poems: sexual abuse, AIDS, sibling rivalry, grief. I admire anyone who can find beauty in crap, and she does it here. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4321073 to: New and Selected Poems: Volume One (Hardcover) by Mary Oliver
I want someone to read "The Ponds" and "When Death Comes" at my funeral.

"When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms." ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4320676 House of Leaves (Paperback) by Mark Z. Danielewski
I've been told by at least two people that I should read it. Maybe when the dissertation's done... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2882980 Whit's review of House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski

That's bizarre. I was making my profile, and I just added this book as one I've always meant to read - just before I looked you up on here. Hmm. You're weird. I think you may be a robot. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4319056 to: Writing the Australian Crawl (Poets on Poetry) by William Edgar Stafford
If I could choose a third grandfather, I would pick William Stafford. This book gives you a chance to sit at his feet, before he asks you gently if you'd rather sit beside him while he tells you how everyone is a poet. Wise, warm, beautiful man. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4319553 to: Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions) by D.H. Lawrence
“What I want is a strange conjunction with you—-[...] not meeting and mingling;-—you are quite right:—-but an equilibrium, a pure balance of two single beings:—-as the stars balance each other” (WIL 139). ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4318941 to: Lady Chatterley's Lover (Paperback) by D.H. Lawrence
Lovely and sexy and yet spiritual. Hard to do all that in one novel. ]]>