Erin Belieu Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Forthcoming Oct: PERSONAL BEST: MAKERS ON THEIR POEMS THAT MATTER MOST. Recent poetry COME-HITHER HONEYCOMB. All books @CopperCanyonPrs

Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century
Youssef Daoudi
In the mail from @adrian_matejka today. LAST ON HIS FEET. This graphic novel is just…stunning. I really never understood the possibilities for the graphic novel till this. The art, language, storytelling, dimensional depth of image & expression. I mean, wow. 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/xmVF6kMuo5
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Maker of Swans
Paraic O'Donnell
@miciahbay The enigma of an antagonist in Paraic O’Donnell’s The Maker of Swans, Mr. Crowe. Fabulous book.
Hardcover, Large Print, 2023
$31.99$15.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir
Lisa Nikolidakis
Happiest of official pub days to @lisanikol and her instant bestselling memoir NO ONE CROSSES THE WOLF. Being the lead paragraph in Vanity Fair’s books column seems an appropriate present. ❤️ https://t.co/GpnLdYOK29
Paperback, 2022
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
Carl Phillips
Intriguing poetry conversation with Carl Phillips on THEN THE WAR and other subjects @mcsweeneys. What’s up with all that damn restlessness, C.?? (And now, after all these years, I know!) Lol. @Carcanet @fsgbooks @CPhillipsPoet https://t.co/HTCdCUg4dy
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Event Horizon
Cate Marvin
@WMM_Series Cate Marvin. Don’t want to boil it down, but she really gets to the complicated truths of motherhood. Event Horizon is her book just out.
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Rock Eaters: Stories
Brenda Peynado
HUGE congratulations to my delightful UH colleague @BrendaPeynado for this glowing starred review in Kirkus for her forthcoming collection THE ROCK EATERS. This lady’s got the🔥🔥🔥@UHouston https://t.co/DAU7NpsZ4a
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wild Is the Wind: Poems
Carl Phillips
Cover Reveal! Here’s the beauty @CopperCanyonPrs has made for Carl Phillips & my anthology PERSONAL BEST: MAKERS ON THEIR POEMS THAT MATTER MOST due Oct. Thank you Dario Robleto & Gopa and Ted2 Inc for the gorgeous art and design. https://t.co/Dsm4E85Mkm
Paperback, 2019
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fears
Kevin Prufer
Excellent company as always @CopperCanyonPrs. And I’ve gotten to read Kevin Prufer’s THE FEARS and it is 🔥🔥🔥. His is one of the best, most distinct voices in American poetry today. ❤️ https://t.co/MKy02K9hcz
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full
Mark Bibbins
@KelliAgodon Also, the entirety of Mark Bibbins’s They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry They Kill You Because They’re Full. Frank O’Hara’s “Meditations In An Emergency” that makes me laugh out loud every time.
Paperback, 2014
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last Happy Occasion
Alan Shapiro
@KelliAgodon @kellydavio Tangentially, do you know Alan Shapiro’s The Last Happy Occasion? It’s hybrid of essays on individual poems w/ memoir about how certain poems deeply affected his life. Does nuanced readings of some great work. Beautiful. And often funny. I teach it in workshops sometimes.
Paperback, 1997
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book