Sunday, December 19, 2010

Neuromancer, William Gibson
The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
The Opening of the Field, Robert Duncan
LRB, (16 Dec 2010)
Essays in Idleness, Kenko, trans. Keene
The Poetics of the New American Poetry, ed. Allen & Tallman
Dining on Stones, Iain Sinclair
The Total Library & Fictions, Borges
The Iliad, Homer, trans. Fagles
Selected Poems, James Schuyler
nothing doing, Cid Corman
Days Shadows Pass, Paul Vangelisti
Sorry, Tree; Skies; Not Me, Eileen Myles
Selected Stories & Speaking to the Rose, Robert Walser
Verse and Worse & Seven Pages Missing, Steve McCaffery
Praeterita, John Ruskin
A Potter's Book, Bernard Leach
Occult Images (The Pepin Press)
the library of last resort
Oeillets
3 vols. of visual poems by Satu Kaikkonen
Threads, Jill Magi

... in three piles on my bedside table - the accumulated reading & dipping into of the past month (or so): gifts, finds, cross-referencings, research, whims, opened-then-put-downs, not-the-right-moment-fors, in-the-middle-ofs, my own efforts, forgottens ... . It would be flattering to think that this list reflected work in progress or scholarship - scattered energy & accidie would be closer to the mark.

We press on regardless ...

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