Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Titles Read in 1996

January - February

Brazilian Poetry edited by Emanuel Brasil and William Jay Smith

A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Bertrand Mathieu

Love and the Misfortune Cookie poetry manuscript by Tim Donnelly

The Maya 5th edition, by Michael D. Coe

La Capital: the biography of Mexico City by Jonathan Kandell

March - April

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry edited by Ed Ochester and Peter Oresick

The Power Game: how Washington works by Hedrick Smith

The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz, translated by J. M. Cohen

The Fate of the Elephant by Douglas H. Chadwick

Solution Passage: poems, 1978 - 1981 by Clark Coolidge

Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, edited by Nathaniel Tarn, translations by Anthony Kerrigan, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reed, and Nathaniel Tarn

Earthlight by Andre Breton, translated by Bill Zavatsky and Zack Rogow

Technicians of the Sacred: a range of poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania edited by Jerome Rothenberg

May - July

Things We Need: two stories by Chris Schneider

The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter and Philip Mead

The Rape of the Nile: tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt by Brian M. Fagan

Homophobia: a weapon of sexism by Suzanne Pharr

New and Selected Poems by Philip Levine

In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

The Manner ‘Music’ by Charles Reznikoff

The Autobiography and other writings by Benjamin Franklin, edited by L. Jesse Lemisch

An Autobiographical Novel by Kenneth Rexroth

Concrete Poetry: a world view edited by Mary Ellen Solt

A History of Writing by Albertine Gaur

August - October

I Smell Esther Williams and other stories by Mark Leyner

Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life By Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Florida three novels by Kathy Acker

Mars: the story of the red planet by Peter Cattermole

Stonehenge Complete by Christopher Chippindale

Euripides’ Medea by Euripides, translated by Brendan Kennelly

Tuning by David Antin

What it means to be avant-garde by David Antin

The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey by Chris Burden

November - December

The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills

Collected Poems, 1948 - 1984 by Derek Walcott

Gilgamesh translated from the Sin-lequi-unninni version by John Gardner and John Maier, with Richard A. Henshaw

Equal in Desire by Clive Matson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The Best American Poetry 1995 edited by Richard Howard; series editor: David Lehman

The Elements of Yoga by Godfrey Devereux

The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms edited by Ron Padgett

Rhyme’s Reason: a guide to English verse by John Hollander

Yoga and the Hindu Tradition by Jean Varenne, translated by Derek Coltman

Buddhism: a history by Noble Ross Reat

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