Daisy Fried Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Baudelaire: Poems: Translated by Richard Howard
Charles Baudelaire
It also contains one of the filthiest poems I ever wrote. Or my adaptation, more precisely, of the filthiest poem Baudelaire wrote. As you may know, I took 28 poems of Charles Baudelaire and ran them through my 21st Century American woman's idiom and nervous system.
Hardcover, 1993
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
Charles Baxter
@Carrie_Etter @VChangPoet And Charles Baxter's essay on defamiliarization in Burning Down the House, though mostly dealing with fiction, is useful for any genre, I think.
Paperback, 2008
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Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler: Poems
Thylias Moss
@Joy_Katz @sinaqueyras Best notes I ever saw by Thylias Moss in Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler
Hardcover, 1988
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Journal of a Solitude
May Sarton
1. I've been looking into May Sarton, listening to an audiobook of her Journal of a Solitude last night while starting to put my poetry books in the shelves to make my new home really a home. In the Journal she writes quite a bit about...(cont'd)
Paperback, 1992
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Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
A student did a presentation on Yoko Ono's grapefruit and I was charmed and bought a copy and really like it a lot. Any other fans?
Hardcover, 2000
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Second Story: Poems
Denise Duhamel
"The hospice nurse said it’s best to just listen. Or bring news of the outside world." From "How Are You," one of terrifically four moving poems by Denise Duhamel @ScoundrelTime, about the death of an elderly mother, and aging in America. Please read. https://t.co/CLcx6AiqZ5
Paperback, 2021
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Path of Totality: Poems
Niina Pollari
I wrote about Niina Pollari's Path of Totality and "the astonishments of grief" @PoetryFound https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/157463/silent-forests-of-the-heart
Paperback, 2022
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The Judy Poems
CL Bledsoe
Really really liking @egabbert's book L'Heure Bleue, or The Judy Poems, which are in the voice/mind of Judy from Shawn's play The Designated Mourner, & are really subtle, interesting, crisp. You don't have to know the play to appreciate, although that's an extra benefit. Sample: https://t.co/NJ8xYLThBs
Paperback, 2021
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Crudo
Olivia Laing
@TheBookMaven You probably read it a few years ago but I am LOVING Olivia Laing's Crudo...
Paperback, 2019
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Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
Claire Keegan
@rabihalameddine Just finished Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These---very good!
Hardcover, 2021
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