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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Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives
Susan Howe
“Long Years / apart – can / make no / Breach a / second cannot / fill –” On Dickinson’s birthday, here is Susan Howe (from Spontaneous Particulars) on archival reading as reanimation. https://t.co/PpW76oEKSa
Paperback, 2020
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Lewesdon Hill: A Poem
Crowe William
My random discovery of the day is James Merrill writing out a poem by William Blake on the inside back cover of his edition of John Crowe Ransom. https://t.co/qpwtGcIiPC
Paperback, 2023
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Tender Buttons: Objects
Gertrude Stein
Hbd Gertrude Stein, I think this is my favorite of the “objects” in Tender Buttons https://t.co/osRAhiALoe
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Frank: Sonnets
Diane Seuss
Diane Seuss, from frank: sonnets: “why in dreams do streams escape their borders, / why must I backtrack to keep myself from drowning” https://t.co/yLAOACMtvu
Paperback, 2021
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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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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner)
John Ashbery
@drchrisisfree If you want an individual volume Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is hard to beat. But I don’t think you need to be systematic about Ashbery!
Paperback, 1990
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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
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The Lyric Now
James Longenbach
The final paragraph in the final essay in James Longenbach’s collection, The Lyric Now— https://t.co/h1LFZOjrCq
Hardcover, 2020
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The Book of Delights
Ross Gay
“His is a voice that makes you realize that your voice is the song of your disappearing, which is our most common song.” Ross Gay on Donny Hathaway, today’s entry in The Book of Delights. https://t.co/c1D2aImMU2
Paperback, 2022
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Good Boys: Poems
Megan Fernandes
Where do poems take place? For this week’s issue of @NewYorker, I wrote about the various answers given to that question in “I Do Everything I’m Told,” a moving new collection by Megan Fernandes (@mfernandespoet). https://t.co/2wHHSLcMhp
Paperback, 2020
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