books align the cold

the best kind of mail today–Melissa, a dear, bright, really gifted and SMART classmate of mine have been trading poems and writings over the break. I received a drawn-all-over manilla envelope from her that held my poems that she’d written all over, and also three more versions of the poem, from where she’d chopped up the poem and rearranged the words to make new, interesting versions, combinations, things I wish I’d thought of in the first place. Poetry in conversation=the best kind? Collaboration= something i’m interested in pursuing more of, with wonderful people/writers like melissa, liz, kathryn. Poetry in response to, writing toward, through, away from, in contrast to.

cutting up/collaging poems=something i should do more of.

Excited about books to be read over this next semester. Excited about books in general.

vunderbar booklists for poetry-filled semester.

One Way No Exit  byG.C. Waldrep

Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns (Perfect Paperback) by Michael Theune

Quarantine
by Brian Henry

The Cosmopolitan (Paperback)
by Donna Stonecipher (Author)

Revolver (Kuhl House Poets) (Paperback)
by Robyn Schiff

Famous Last Words (Paperback)
by Catherine Pierce

Garbage: A Poem (Paperback)
by A. R. Ammons

The End of Beauty (American Poetry Series) (Paperback)
by Jorie Graham

The Beginner (Paperback)
by Lyn Hejinian

The Presentable Art of Reading Absence (Paperback)
by Jay Wright

This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems (New California Poetry) (Paperback)
by Juliana Spahr

The Mooring Of Starting Out (Paperback)
by John Ashbery

More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (Paperback)
by George Lakoff

and that’s only 2 out of 3 classes! All are ordered, over $200 spent, but I am adding to that bookshelf that I envision will one day cover all my bedroom/living room/study/bathroom walls. Walls=books, that is my dream. It’s coming along quite nicely.