Kamran Javadizadeh 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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Kamran Javadizadeh is a writer and professor. I believe in swimming, flying, and crawling, and burrowing.

Tape for the Turn of the Year
A. R. Ammons
I think I’ll read along again this year with Ammons’s Tape for the Turn of the Year, a poem composed in daily entries between Dec 6 & Jan 10 on a roll of adding-machine tape: “once started, / can I ever get / free / of the thing, get it in / and out of the typewriter / and mind?” https://t.co/oZXZn9UaEk
Paperback, 2007
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Midwood: Poems
Jana Prikryl
Jana Prikryl (@janaprikryl), from her forthcoming volume, Midwood. https://t.co/OMWvE9FKoK
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Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein
Hbd Gertrude Stein, I think this is my favorite of the “objects” in Tender Buttons https://t.co/osRAhiALoe
Paperback, 2018
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And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
John Berger
John Berger. “What I did not know when I was very young was that nothing can take the past away: the past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.”
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The Dead and the Living
Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds, from The Dead and the Living https://t.co/bGBzHWZxlk
Paperback, 1984
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Sweet Youth: Poems
Allen Grossman
Allen Grossman. “Poems pitch persons toward one another full of news about being, about personal life.” https://t.co/thIFekv4Ht
Paperback, 2002
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wind: A Poem
Robert White
Robert Mezey. “You would have liked it here, / The emptiness, the wind across the fields, / And the spring coming on—especially / The strange white almond blossoms, their unfolding / When a car swings down the lane toward the orchard / And turns its headlights on them.” https://t.co/f5gnhidxz8
Paperback, 2010
$17.75$8.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Arrow
Sumita Chakraborty
Sumita Chakraborty, from Arrow: “the light we structure our lives around / lacks consolation.” https://t.co/gcNZR1cgM7
Paperback, 2020
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea
Alice Oswald
“There is one kind of water when it hangs over him / a man is a nobody underneath a big wave / his loneliness expands his hair floats out like seaweed” Alice Oswald, from Nobody https://t.co/2dyzgXHWTm
Paperback, 2022
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Couplets: A Love Story
Maggie Millner
For @NewYorker, I wrote about rhyme and bondage and Maggie Millner’s thrilling new book, Couplets: A Love Story. https://t.co/xIA0uMFOjF
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