Molly Spencer 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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poet, critic, editor, wonk | she/her | IF THE HOUSE @UWiscPress | HINGE @siupress | INVITATORY Parlor Press 2024 | ed. @The_Rumpus | Gen X
Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad
Alice OswaldMolly Spencer@poemakontsa Alice Oswald’s entire book, Memorial (she calls it an excavation of the Iliad) https://t.co/iwFtPM1RuH
Paperback, 2013
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Detroit as Barn
Crystal WilliamsMolly Spencer@_blackpoetics Crystal Williams’s Detroit as Barn is crucial Detroit reading: https://t.co/uFA1fZntGN
Paperback, 2014
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Bestiary: Poems
Donika KellyMolly Spencer@motleybookshelf Sara Luputa Olivares’s MIGRATORY SOUND; Donika Kelly’s BESTIARY.
Paperback, 2016
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Too Much Happiness
Alice MunroMolly Spencer@e_m_doyle Any by Alice Munro, but especially Too Much Happiness
Paperback, 2010
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My Emily Dickinson
Susan HoweMolly SpencerSource: Eliot Weinberger's 2007 preface to Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson (@NewDirections)
Paperback, 2007
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Space, in Chains
Laura KasischkeMolly SpencerAnd here's today's Noon Poem from Laura Kasischke, whose Space, in Chains blew my mind when it came out, and whose work I've read backwards and forwards ever since: https://t.co/rnNecqOMix @disaster2follow @CopperCanyonPrs https://t.co/M1bWIJg6Ut
Paperback, 2011
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I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
Lucia PerilloMolly Spencer@aliner @janechuffman Not sure we have a poetics of any of these—diagnosis, chronic illness, or convalescence—it's something I think about a lot. Lucia Perillo's poetry and essays have been important to me, especially the essays "Glimpse" and "Job versus Prometheus" in I've Heard the Vultures Singing.
Paperback, 2009
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All the Fierce Tethers
Lia PurpuraMolly Spencer@SarahMRosenthal Lia Purpura has some stunners in her latest collection, All the Fierce Tethers
Paperback, 2019
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On Looking: Essays
Lia PurpuraMolly SpencerRevisiting Lia Purpura’s stellar essays and have a little company https://t.co/WbTibg8HYq
Paperback, 2006
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Shade of Blue Trees
Kelly Cressio-MoellerMolly SpencerWhen the algorithm doesn’t show you @poetkellycm’s poem on Verse Daily till days later 🤔 …but here it is now, and you should read it and then buy her book, Shade of Blue Trees! https://t.co/aKZbIpRUor
Paperback, 2021
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