bone -Yrsa Daley-Ward
My fiancee found this particular collection on Amazon, and recommended it highly. I’ve been reading a lot more contemporary poetry in the last few years, but it’s still very much…
Carver’s “Ultramarine” and Narrative in Poetry
This was my favorite collection of poetry read in 2015. Carver’s poetry reads very easily for me, especially compared to a lot of other contemporary stuff. His poems have such…
Best Of 2015
Best Novel: “Grendel”. Gardner’s seminal work is beautiful and semantically dense. Honorable mention: ”Infinite Jest” Best Short Story collection: “Jesus’ Son”. Denis Johnson’s best work, in my opinion. Honorable…
Reading Log: Tin House 57 (WILD)
Tin House #15: Tin House: Wild, Volume 15, Number 1 by Win Mccormack (edt) I’m sold. A subscription to Tin house is definitely in my immediate future (as soon as…
Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Reading Old Editions
I read an old copy of an old poem. I was given this gorgeous anthology of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s work, an original Excelsior Edition published in 1880. The book is…
2014 Revisited, with Metadata!
I decided to go through the list of books I read last year, compiling data. I used the incredibly scientific method of thinking up some interesting categories on the drive…
Reading Log: The Paris Review Winter 2004
I’ve never purchased as subscription to The Paris Review, for the following reasons: -I’m broke as hell -They have most of their back interviews and lots of other good…
Reading Log: Raymond Carver’s A New Path to the Waterfall
When Raymond Carver was diagnosed with terminal Stage IV lung cancer, he kept on being Raymond Carver. He kept writing and he kept reading, finding some comfort or meaning in…