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Summer Reading Recommendations 2009 |
Poetry: Campbell's Classics (1981-2006) by Don Kingfisher Campbell
Prose: Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker
Recommended by Scott Kaestner, author of Angeleno A Go Go (poetry)
Poetry: Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
Recommended by Lynne Thompson, author of Beg No Pardon
Prose: La disparition byGeorges Perec
Poetry: The Tablets by Armand Schwerner
Recommended by Jose Carerro, poet and composer
Poetry: Telling Time by the Shadows, John Fitzgerald
Prose: The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
Recommended by Hélène Cardona, author or The Astonished Universe (poetry)
Poetry: The White Bride, Sarah Maclay
Prose: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Haruki Murakami
Recommended by Marie Lecrivain, author or Antebellum Messiah (poetry)
Poetry: Selected Poems of Victor Hugo
Prose: The Little Girl and the Cigarette, Benoit Duteurtre
Recommended by Douglas Richardson, author or The Corruption of Zachary R. (novel)
Poetry: Letters to Guns, by Brendan Constantine (Red Hen Press)
Prose: 10 for Everything by Rachel Kann (Tangerine Tide Press)
Recommended by G. Murray Thomas, author of Cows on the Freeway (poetry)
Prose: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Recommended by Radomir Luza, poet
Poetry: Envelope of Night, Michael Burkard
Prose: A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer, Christine Schutt
Recommended by Sarah Maclay, author of The White Bride (poetry--mostly prose poems)
Poetry: Morning of a Machine Gun, Franklin Rosemount
Prose, fiction: The Golden Book of Springfield, Vachel Lindsay
By Richard Modiano, poet and editor of Poetix
Poetry: To Be Read in 500 Years by Albert Goldbarth
Prose: Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys
Recommended by Eloise Klein Healy, author of The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho (Red Hen Press 2007)
Poetry: Dark Thirty, Santee Frazier
Prose: The Deptford Trilogy, Robertson Davies
Recommended by Neil Aitken, author of The Lost Country of Sight (poetry)
Poetry: Dance Dance Revolution, Cathy Park Hong
Prose: Salt Fish Girl, Larissa Lai
Recommended by Ching-In Chen, author of The Heart's Traffic (poetry)
Poetry: Letters to Guns, Brendan Constantine
Prose: Fool, Christopher Moore
Recommended by Victor D. Infante, author of City of Insomnia (poetry)
Poetry: Luck, Mark Hofstadter
Prose: Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
Recommended by Jan Steckel, author of The Underwater Hospital (poetry) and Mixing Tracks (fiction)
copyright 2009
Marie
Lecrivain |
