Ricardo Alberto Maldonado 🇵🇷 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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poet & translator | un gay | The Life Assignment (@fourwaybooks) | ED and Prez of @POETSorg | Researcher for @ProyectoLitPR | Ă©l / he | sandwich de mezcla

A Severed Head
Iris Murdoch
reading Murdoch’s A Severed Head for a summer-long course with @sarahchihaya — and what’s in the brain today is the idea of the novel as a thing of velocity; this one, in particular, a quick blood-letting.
Paperback, 1976
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Be Holding: A Poem
Ross Gay
@sebastianparamo Denice Frohman is working on a series of basketball poems — one of which is on the NYTimes Also, Ross Gay’s Be Holding and John McPhee’s profile of Bill Bradley, “A Sense of Where You Are”
Paperback, 2020
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
John McPhee
@sebastianparamo Denice Frohman is working on a series of basketball poems — one of which is on the NYTimes Also, Ross Gay’s Be Holding and John McPhee’s profile of Bill Bradley, “A Sense of Where You Are”
Paperback, 1999
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Home
Toni Morrison
And another, tonight. @namwalien delivered a lecture on Toni Morrison’s Home just last year, one that I return to. Often. And now her novel, The Furrows, a must read! Super fans unite + Hua Hsu! https://t.co/OYOsoCUH9q
Paperback, 2013
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Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Rita Dove
sometimes visited by a quick flash like, “fuck, forgot to add rita dove’s playlist for the apocalypse on the list of books i read last year” and so it goes and goes forever and ever it goes
Paperback, 2023
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The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald
Experiencing a kind of joy while reading Mazoni’s Betrothed (transl by @michaelfmoore1) that reminds me of Penelope Fitzgerald, especially The Blue Flower — the scene has Renzo entering Milan and stumbling upon a flour revolt — a metamorphoses. 10/10
Paperback, 2014
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Punks
John Keene
RT @thesongcave: TODAY is the official pub date for John Keene's PUNKS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS !!! Available now: https://t.co/6gsVBIo4h4 htt…
Paperback, 2021
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Borderland Apocrypha
Anthony Cody
@JihyunYun2nd @RosebudBenOni @NatalieGDiaz @VChangPoet @JihyunYunPoetry @EduardoCCorral @Danez_Smif @emkhine @annameisterpoet @arickamarie @k_lisarae @DonMeeChoi I’m having difficulty separating 2020 from 2021, but to this great list I am adding Douglas Kearney’s Sho, Phil Metres’ Shrapnel Maps, Sheila Maldonado’s that’s what you get, Anthony Cody’s borderland apocrypha and Chad Bennet’s Your New Feeling ... and plus 80 additional books!
Paperback, 2020
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Maud Martha
Gwendolyn Brooks
Roslyn Ruff reads Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha (waited 3 years for this event) 🥹 https://t.co/N7z62RgukQ
Paperback, 1992
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The Furrows
Namwali Serpell
And another, tonight. @namwalien delivered a lecture on Toni Morrison’s Home just last year, one that I return to. Often. And now her novel, The Furrows, a must read! Super fans unite + Hua Hsu! https://t.co/OYOsoCUH9q
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book