Favorite Reads of 2014

Not a “best books” list by far, just the annual list of books I enjoyed reading over the previous year. As always, I present these in alphabetical order by author. They are a mix of genres (poetry, prose, art, graphic novel), and a mish-mash of books recently published and books I either finally got around to reading or have discovered years after they’ve been published:

Disturbance by Ivy Alvarez
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Telephone by Jen Besemer
Foxes on the Trampoline by Charlotte Boulay
Rise in the Fall by Ana Bozicevic
The God of Longing by Brent Calderwood
Antigonick; Nay, Rather; and The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson
Turn by Wendy Chin-Tanner
Trespass by Thomas Dooley
Boys Have Been… by Christopher Gaskins
Crush by D. Gilson and Will Stockton
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa; Unpeopled Eden; and Autobiography of My Hungers by Rigoberto Gonzalez
Contemplative Man by Brock Guthrie
Revenance by Cynthia Hogue
Prime by Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Saeed Jones, Rickey Laurentiis, Phillip B. Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson
Missing You, Metropolis by Gary Jackson
Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones
Aviary, Bestiary by Joseph O. Legaspi
The Burning Door by Tony Leuzzi
Bombyonder by Reb Livingston
Sumptuary Laws by Nyla Matuk
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion and Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies by Kei Miller
A History of the Unmarried by Stephen S. Mills
New York 1, Tel Aviv 0: Stories by Shelly Oria
Silverchest by Carl Phillips
Sylvia Plath: Drawings by Sylvia Plath
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia Smith
Girls I Know by Douglas Trevor
Reliquaria by R. A. Villanueva
Only Ride by Megan Volpert
Mysterious Acts By My People by Valerie Wetlaufer
Mirrors, Messages, Manifestations by Minor White