I acquire books the way some go for shoes: I see something I want and simply must have it.
Before going shopping on Saturday I asked the Twitterverse to recommend poets I should read, and I received some good suggestions: Anne Sexton from @la_panique, Louis Untermeyer from @szul, Robinson Jeffers from @davidbmetcalfe (thanks guys!) and I added a few more to my list – almost none of which I managed to find.
Even so, I did not come home empty handed, as you can see from the stack pictured left. This is what I picked up:
Poetry
- The Flowers of Evil: English and French Edition, by Charles Baudelaire
- Tulips and Chimneys, by E.E. Cummings
- Spirit Engine, by John Donlan
- The Cocktail Party, by T.S. Eliot
- Handwriting: Poems, by Michael Ondaatje
- Selected Poems, by Ezra Pound, edited with an introduction by T.S. Eliot
- Asphodel, by Michael Redhill
- Selected Poems, by Paul Verlaine
Fiction
- Yellow Dog, by Martin Amis
- The Final Solution: A Story of Detection , by Michael Chabon
- The Magician, by W. Somerset Maugham
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Surprisingly, no non-fiction this time!
I’ve updated LibraryThing, and included links for anyone who wants to check out any of these books.
My Books Read in 2010 list has also been updated with what I’ve been reading lately. At the time of writing I’m up to 86.
What’s everyone else reading these days? I’m always open to suggestion.
Good choice on the Pound, I check that one out of the Library every couple of months when the Ubuweb recordings of him reading over drums start to drive my brain into a frenzy.
The Poetry Foundation has a good selection of Jeffers’ work: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robinson-jeffers
Shine, Perishing Republic is one of my favorites, and one of his more well known poems.
Nifty! And thanks for the link.
Like the new website!
Thanks, but this site isn’t new. I’ve had it for a few years, but I only update it it ever few weeks. I’m working on changing that.