Summer Reading

These are books I’ve accumulated since March. Most I have not read, but some didn’t get my full attention.  In alpha order:

1.     The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander

2.       Why God Is a Woman, Nin Andrews

3.       Do Not Rise, Beth Bachmann

4.       The Last Two Seconds, Mary Jo Bang

5.       We Come Elemental, Tamiko Beyer

6.       The New Testament, Jericho Brown

7.       All-season Stephanie, Stephen Burt

8.       New to the Lost Coast, Joshua Butts

9.       The Breakbeat Poets, Kevin Corval, Quaraysh Lansana, and Nate Marshall

10.   Deep Lane, Mark Doty

11.   My Feelings, Nick Flynn

12.   Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay

13.   How to Be Drawn, Terrance Hayes

14.   Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist, Kirun Kapur

15.   You Are Indeed an Elk, But This Is Not the Forest You Were Born to Graze, Kyle McCord

16.   Digest, Greg Pardlo

17.   King Me, Roger Reeves

18.   The Americans, David Roderick

19.   War of the Foxes, Richard Siken

20.   What the Truth Tastes Likes, Martha Silano

21.   In the Kettle, The Shriek, Hannah Stephenson

22.   Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson