I bought a crapload of new poetry with Dana yesterday: a collected Wallace Stevens, Bright Existence by Brenda Hillman, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery, The Pajamist by Matthew Zapruder, James Galvin’s Lethal Frequencies and the book for which Jorie Graham won the Pulitzer, Dream of a Unified Field.
Then this morning I ordered a Collected Simone Weil and another collection of Fanny Howe essays. But I’ve just found out about Roberto Bolano’s 2666? And the internets are RAVING about it. So I might have to overcome my sticker shock, spring for a copy and make that 900-page trip.
Happy Holidays, y’all.
jskah said,
December 31, 2008 at 6:01 am
read the jorie graham aloud& while drinking oh god, &tell me what to get cuz everything you’ve put up lately has been stellar. laptop’s dead &i am reading yr blog on a tiny screen with many punctuation marks missing so i didn’t recognize the graham poem as hers the first few lines, ha.. glad yr people are taking care of you there. xoxo