Books Ordered
And because I qualified for free shipping if I spent an additional $13.xx, I also ordered Wayne Koestenbaum's Model Homes, another Zucker recommendation. I wanted to order his latest book, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films: New Poems, but it only cost $11.86, so I added it to my wish list for later. Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films(!) If anyone's read this, or seen a review, do tell.
Comments
I love Model Homes so much. I want to write an essay about it and one of Jim Elledge's books. I'd love to hear what you think of it.
Posted by: Charlie | September 25, 2006 01:55 PM
Two books of poems I'm currently reading Pity the Drowned Horses by Sheryl Luna (published by U. of Notre Dame Press), and In The Middle Distance by Linda Gregg (Graywolf Press), both of which I'm liking quite a bit.
I've run across other recommendations of Here, Bullet -- I'll need to check it out.
The last poetry anthology I found that I really liked -- this was probably a couple of years ago now -- is Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era edited by Estelle Gershgoren Novak (U. of New Mexico Press), which gathers a selection of poems by Thomas McGrath and upwards of a dozen other poems who gathered around him during his years in Los Angeles in the 1950's and 1960's. It's an interesting case of a highly energetic circle of poets who were (for the most part) left out on the fringes of the literary-industrial complex, without regard to (or perhaps because of) the high quality of their writing.
Posted by: Lyle Daggett | September 25, 2006 10:46 PM