Finished in October

3 November 2024 #

• Sheila Packa, Surface Displacements (Wildwood River Press 2022)
• Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World (Basic Books 2024)
• Tom Shippey, Tolkien: Author of the Century (Houghton Mifflin 2002) (reread)
• Russell Hoban, The Medusa Frequency (Atlantic Monthly Press 1987) (reread)
• Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture (Mariner 1934, 2005)

Finished in September

2 October 2024 #

• Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art (Bloomsbury 2020)
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss (OSU Press 2002)
• Franz Boas, Anthropology and Modern Life (Dover 1928, 1986)

Finished in August

1 September 2024 #

• Henry Gould, Parmenides in Minneapolis (2024)
• Callie Siskel, Two Minds (Norton 2024)
• George Grella Jr, Bitches Brew (33⅓ #110, Bloomsbury 2015)
• Adam Zagajewski, Another Beauty (University of Georgia 2002)
• Mark Scroggins, The Poem of a Life: a Biography of Louis Zukofsky (Shoemaker & Hoard 2007)

Finished in July

1 August 2024 #

• Robyn Hitchcock, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left (Akashic 2024)
• Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (Vintage 1955)
• Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (Penguin 1972)

Finished in June

30 June 2024 #

• Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons (FSG 2016)
• Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry (Graywolf 2024)
• DT Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism (Grove 1964)

Finished in May

31 May 2024 #

• Gwen Nell Westerman, Songs, Blood Deep (Holy Cow! 2023)
• Jennifer Manthey, The Fight (Trio House 2023)
• Suzanne Frischkorn, Whipsaw (Anhinga 2024)
• Natalie Shapero, Hard Child (Copper Canyon 2017)
• Alan Watts, The Way of Zen (Vintage 1957, 1989) and Nature, Man and Woman (Vintage 1958, 1991)
• Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (FSG 1968)
• Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Picador 1966)

Finished in April

1 May 2024 #

• Mary Ruefle, Dunce (Flood 2019)
• Nikki Wallschlaeger, Waterbaby (Copper Canyon 2021)
• Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind (Milkweed 2022)
• Dan Beachy-Quick (trns), The Thinking Root: The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy (Milkweed 2023) and Stone-Garland: Six Poets from the Greek Lyric Tradition (Milkweed 2020)
• Ann Carson (trns), If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Vintage 2003)
• Alan Watts, This Is It (Vintage 1960, 1973)
• Jonathan Lethem, Fear of Music (33⅓ #86, Bloomsbury 2012)
• Amanda Petrusich, Pink Moon (33⅓ #51, Bloomsbury 2007)

Finished in March

1 April 2024 #

• Osip Mandelstam (trns Peter France), Black Earth: Selected Poems & Prose (New Directions 2021)
• Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things (Milkweed Editions 2021)
• Jim Harrison, The Theory & Practice of Rivers (1989), Letters to Yesenin (1973), After Ikkyu (1996) (in Complete Poems, Copper Canyon 2021) (rereads)
• Daniel Heller-Roazen, Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues & Riddlers (Zone Books 2013)

Finished in February

1 March 2024 #

• Henry Gould, The Green Radius (forthcoming, Contubernales Press 2024)
• Carla Sofia Ferreira, A Geography That Doesn’t Hurt Us (River River Books 2024)
• Han VanderHart, What Pecan Light (Bull City 2021)
• Warren F Motte Jr (ed), Oulipo: A Primer (Dalkey Press 1997)
• Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman, Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life (Doubleday 2022)
• Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb, The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Phillipa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics (Oxford 2022)

Finished in January

1 February 2024 #

• Henry Gould, Stone (Copper Beech Press 1979)
• Robert Creeley, On Earth: Last Poems & and Essay (California 2006)
• JA Baker, The Peregrine (NYRB 2003) (reread)
• rob mclennan, essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press 2022)
• Jenny Odell, Saving Time (Random House 2023)
• Bill Porter, Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits (Counterpoint 1993)

Finished in November

1 December 2023 #

• Henry Gould, The Green Radius (1–38, 39–72) (WIP 2023)
• Kyla Houbolt, Surviving Death (Broken Spine 2023)
• J-T Kelly, Like Now (Subpress/CCCP 2023)
• Robert Richardson, Three Roads Back (Princeton 2023)

Finished in October

1 November 2023 #

• Jane Huffman, Public Abstract (American Poetry Review 2023)
• Louise Glück, The Triumph of Achilles (1985), Meadowlands (1996), Ararat (1990) (in Poems 1962–2012, FSG 2012)
• Richard Jeffrey Newman, T’shuvah (Fernwood Press 2023)
• Jared Beloff, Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions 2023)
• Henry Gould, Holy Fool (Self-published 2023)
• Graeber & Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything (Picador 2022)
• Robert Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (University of California 1995)

Finished in September

1 October 2023 #

• Tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King (Mariner Books 2012) (reread)

Finished in June

1 July 2023 #

• Norman O Brown, Life Against Death (Wesleyan 1959)
• Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams (Vintage 1986)
• Red Pine, Dancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine Translations (Copper Canyon 2023)

Finished in May

1 June 2023 #

• Andrew J Angyal, Loren Eiseley (Twayne Publishers 1983)
• Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (Bantam 1980) (reread)
• Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon (Penguin 2006) (reread)

Finished in March

1 April 2023 #

• Richard Slotkin, The Fatal Environment (Harper Perennial 1994)
• Adriaen van der Donck (trns Diederik Willem Goedhuys), A Description of New Netherland (University of Nebraska Press 1655, 2008)
• Gregory Orr, A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry (Norton 2018)
• Richard Jeffrey Newman, The Silence of Men (CavanKerry Press 2006)
• Claire Wahmanholm, Meltwater (Milkweed 2023)
• rob mclennan, the book of smaller (University of Calgary 2022)

Finished in February

1 March 2023 #

• Matthew Gabrielle & David M Perry, The Bright Ages (Harper Perennial 2021)

Finished in January

1 February 2023 #

• Ai, Cruelty (Perseus 1973; Collected Poems Norton 2013)
• Mary Midgley, Science as Salvation (Routledge 1992) (reread)

Finished in December

31 December 2022 #

• Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising (Collier 1973) (reread)

Finished in October

1 November 2022 #

• Steven Mithen, After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000–5,000 BC (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2003)
• Diane Seuss, Frank: Sonnets (Graywolf 2021)
• Sara Eliza Johnson, Vapor (Milkweed 2022)
• Sophus Helle, Gilgamesh (Yale 2021)

Finished in September

1 October 2022 #

• Henry David Thoreau, The Journal: 1837–1861 (NYRB 2009)
• Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell (Bantam 1974) (reread)
• Grace Paley, Fidelity (FSG 2008)
• Robert Bly, Sleepers Joining Hands (Harper & Row, 1973; Norton, 2018)

Finished in August

1 September 2022 #

• Lawrence Kilham, The American Crow and the Common Raven (Texas A&M 1989)
• Susanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key (Harvard 1942, 1957)
• Adam Zagajewski, In Defense of Ardor (FSG 2004)
• Richard Nelson, The Island Within (Vintage 1989) (reread)

Finished in July

1 August 2022 #

• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (Milkweed 2013)
• Lawrence Kilham, On Watching Birds (Chelsea Green 1988) (reread)
• Ann Zwinger, Beyond the Aspen Grove (University of Arizona Press 1970, 1988) (reread)
• John M Marzluff & Tony Angell, In the Company of Crows and Ravens (Yale 2005)
• Thoreau, Walden (Library of America 1989) (reread)
• Dana Levin, Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon 2022)
• Paul J Pastor, Bower Lodge (Fernwood 2021)
• Vaan Nguyen (trns Adriana X. Jacobs), The Truffle Eye (Zephyr Press 2021)

Finished in June

1 July 2022 #

• Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (Balantine 1970)
• Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks (FSG 2021)
• Edward Gorey, Thoughtful Alphabets (Pomegranate 2012)
• Philip Metres, Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon 2020)
• Claudia Serea, Writing on the Walls at Night (Unsolicited Press 2022)

Finished in May

1 June 2022 #

• GK Chesterton, Manalive (John Lane 1912) (reread)
• GK Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday (Penguin Classics 1908, 2011)