Books Read in November 2010

November 2010 wasn't a bad month of reading, but most of these publications are quite short. I did read twenty-five publications this month, five short of my goal. I still may make 365 for the year, or one a day.]


November 1, 2010

1. Jones, Jonathan. thwart. the sticky pages press: Brussels, 2010.


November 5, 2010

2. Walser, Robert. Answer to an Inquiry. Translated by Paul North. Illustrated by Friese Undine. Ugly Duckling Presse: Brooklyn, 2010.


November 6, 2010

[Numbers 3 to 5 were read while waiting for a table in the lunch room of Harney & Sons in Millerton, New York.]

3. Gorey, Edward. The Eclectic Abecedarium. Pomegranate: San Francisco: 1983, 2008.

4. Gorey, Edward. The Utter Zoo and Alphabet. Pomegranate: San Francisco: 1967, 1995, 2010.

5. Gorey, Edward. The Sopping Thursday. Pomegranate: San Francisco: 1970, 1998.


November 7, 2010

6. Swensen, Cole. greensward. Ugly Duckling Press: Brooklyn, 2010.

7. 6 X 6 # 21: A Man Walks into a Bar. Fall 2010.


November 11, 2010

8. Agrafiotis, Demosthenes. Chinese Notebook. Translated from the Greek by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis. Ugly Duck Presse: Brooklyn, N.Y., 2010.


November 14, 2010

[Numbers 9 and 10 were purchased in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in November 2010, and read almost immediately.]

9. Vicuña, Cecilia. Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water. Translated by Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne Jill Levine. Graywolf Press: St Paul, Minn., 1992.


November 16, 2010

10. Perelman, Bob. Playing Bodies. With images by Francie Shaw. Granary Books: New York, 2003.


November 20, 2010

[Numbers 11 to 19 were read while visiting the recuperating Roy Arenella at his home in Greenwich, New York. I could see Robert Lax living there.]

11. Lax, Robert. The Love that Comes. Furthermore Press: Passumpsic, Vt., 1984.

12. Lax, Robert. A Poem for Thomas Merton. Journeyman Books: New York, 1969.

13. Lax, Robert. Just Mid Night. Furthermore Press: Davie, Fla., 1984.

14. Fisher, Roy and Ronald King. Scenes from the Alphabet. Circle Press Publications, 1978, 1984, 1996.

15. Lax, Robert. Thought. Journeyman Books: New York, 1966.

16. Lax, Robert. Clouds. Furthermore Press: Lyndonville, Vt., 1983.

17. Lax, Robert. Just Mid Night. Furthermore Press: Passumpsic, Vt., 1983.

18. Lax, Robert. At the Top of the Night. Furthermore Press: Passumpsic, Vt., 1983.

19. Lax, Robert. Arc. Furthermore Press: Passumpsic, Vt., 1984.


November 21, 2010

[Numbers 20 and 21 were purchased in Schuylerville, New York, just a little over the bridge from Greenwich, on the day I visited Roy, and I read them almost immediately.]

20. Palmer, Doug. Margaret's Experiences. OR: San Francisco, 1967.

21. Friefeld, Larry. The Importance of Swimming and Other Poems. Privately published: np, 1968.

[Chris Rizzo gave me number 22, a third edition of his little book of neologistic poems in Albany, New York, after a reading by Jay MillAr and other BookThug poets.]

22. Rizzo, Christopher. Naturalistless. Greying Ghost Press: Jamaica Plain, Mass., 2008.

[Number 23 is the smallest of the four publications Jack Crimmins sent me.]

23. Crimmins, Jack. Apricot: A Poem. Littoral Press: Oakland, Calif., 2007.

24. Gaze, Tim and Carol Stetser. A 'Soft Tissue'. Privately printed: Sedona, Ariz., 2010.


November 26, 2010

[Number 25 was my favorite book of the month. Essentially a collected poems of Picabia, it was a large and diverse book that took me, by far, the longest to read.]

25. Picabia, Francis. I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation. Translated by Marc Lowenthal. The MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2007.

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