Publishing this on time this year and not four months into the new year. =)
Now that 2013 is over I can present my annual list of books I enjoyed reading over the previous year. As always, I present these in alphabetical order by author. They are a mix of poetry, prose, and art monographs, and I should note this is just a sampling (a mish-mash of books recently published and books I either finally got around to reading or have discovered years after they’ve been published):
- O Holy Insurgency by Mary Biddinger
- Red Doc> by Anne Carson
- An Elephant’s Memory of Blizzards by Neil de la Flor
- Blowout by Denise Duhamel
- Sisterhood by Julie R. Enszer
- Brit Lit by D. Gilson
- Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison
- Clay by David Groff
- Jess: O! Tricky Cad & Other Jessoterica by Jess, ed. by Michael Duncan
- Imago and Subways by Joseph O. Legaspi
- Straight Razor by Randall Mann
- Corpse Whale by dg nanouk okpik
- A Book of Variations: Love, Zygal, Art Facts by bp Nichol
- Obscenely Yours by Angelo Nikolopoulos
- Mezzanines by Matthew Olzmann
- Corona by Bushra Rehman
- Later Poems Selected and New: 1971-2012 by Adrienne Rich
- The Human Fragment by Michael Ernest Sweet
- Butch Geography by Stacey Waite
- Sacriligion by L. Lamar Wilson
- We Have the Melon by Gregory Woods
- Nefarious by Emanuel Xavier
Looking at my stack of unread books, I realize there are so many books I didn’t get to this year. And a handful I haven’t had time to finish (all those Canadian poets I started reading this fall). And probably a few I’ve forgotten. But I’m looking forward to some books from my Christmas haul, including titles by Alison Bechdel, Jeanette Winterson, Samuel R. Delany, and Erna Brodber. Onward!