At the close of every year, for over a decade, I have taken a moment in to reflect upon the year’s publications. Like in previous years, my “most engaging books” list reflects what I found most fascinating / useful / generative in terms of form & content from the books I read in 2020.
Seek out these volumes; every one will reward the search (your local, independent, bookstore can help; an excellent choice as many are struggling under the pandemic). This is the cream of the crop for 2020, seriously:
- Abel, Jordan. Un/Inhabited. (2nd revised edition, Talonbooks)
- Abendschein, Hartmut. asemic walks: 50 templates for pataphysical inspections. (Timglaset)
- Archer, Sacha. Mother’s Milk. (Timglaset)
- Babstock, Ken. Swivelmount. (Coach House Books)
- Balgiu, Alex and Monica de la Torre, eds. Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979. (Primary Information)
- Blonk, Jaap. Antonin Artaud. (Hybriden-Verlag)
- Cage, John. A Mycological Foray. (Atelier Editions)
- Carpenter, J.R. This is a Picture of Wind. (Longbarrow Press)
- Goldsmith, Kenneth. Duchamp is my Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics and Poetics of Ubuweb. (Columbia University Press)
- Gopnik, Blake, Warhol. (Ecco)
- Howe, Susan. Concordance. (New Directions)
- Queyras, Sina, Genevieve Robichaud and Erin Wunker, eds. Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader. (Coach House Books)
- Robertson, Lisa. The Baudelaire Fractal. (Coach House Books)
- Spinosa, Dani. OO: Typewriter Poems. (Invisible)
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