Save the date, Poetry Book Club Members–Monday January 3, 9:00 p.m. EST, 6:00 p.m. PST–for the chat with Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her book Lucky Fish. You’ll get the link and the password in your email as the date approaches.
Alizah Salario reports in from the e-book summit.
Amy Lynn Greacen has a nice piece that wanders from baking to formal poetry and goes from there.
Bookslut chats with Reb Livingston of No Tell Motel and No Tell Books.
Leah McLaren has a (slightly) different beef with e-books–it has to do with giving them as gifts.
We don’t do lists here at The Rumpus, but we do like to hear what you have to say on things. We’re crowd-sourcers. So tell us, in the comments, what your favorite poetry collections were from the past year. Limit yourself to books released in 2010, if you don’t mind, and give a short (1 or 2 sentence) description of why they wowed you. If you want an example of what I’m talking about, you can look at the list I put together at my place earlier today. I’ll collate them and try to do something with them sometime next week.
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1. “Selected Poems” by Mary Ruefle… This book blew me away for it’s ability to see what isn’t there, keeping it simple and making it all astonishingly beautiful.
2. “Other Flowers” by James Schuyler… These are hithertofore uncollected, which, for a poet this original and essential, is the best recommendation I can think of.
3. “One With Others” by C.D. Wright… An oral history, poems, prose poems about an explosive incident of Civil Rights in smalltown Arkansas in 1969. The event as well as snapshots of what the the main speaker here is reading and which music she is listening to make for an incredibly moving assemblage.
4. “Horses Where There Should Have Been Answers”… the selected poems by Chase Twichell — gorgeous dialectic poems from the interior that are influenced by Buddhism and the practice of writing itself.
5. “Breaking the Glass” by Jean Valentine… Her best book, if that’s possible and her first with her new publisher, Copper Canyon who have done an incredibly beautiful job.
6. “Pleasure” by Brian Teare… a book of elegies which reads as one long, complicated and hauntingly formal elegy.
7. “Every Riven Thing” by Christian Wiman — poems that rhyme! brilliantly, quietly and devastatingly.
8. “My Life As Adam” by Bryan Borland — A young poet’s first book that is so simple and honest that every poem feels like the other end of a continuing long conversation about what it means to be gay in this world in this time.
9. “Sharks in the Rivers” by Ada Limon — A book that reads and sounds like a dream. Lush, lovely, scary and almost real.
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