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Most Engaging Books of 2017

December 1, 2017 //

Each December I reflect upon the best of what i’ve read of titles published this year. Like previous years, this year’s “most engaging books” list reflects what i found most fascinating / useful / generative. Seek out these volumes, every one will reward the search. Your local, independent, bookstore can help….

This is the cream of the crop for 2017, seriously:

Poetry

Howe, Susan. Debths. (New Directions)

Métail. Michèle. Wild Geese Returning: Chinese Reversible Poems. (NYRB)

Queyras, Sina. My Ariel. (Coach House Books)

Rinne, Cia. L’Usage du Mot. (Gylendal)

Villoro, Federico Pérez and Christopher Hamamoto. Printer Prosthetic: Futura. (Printed Matter)

Wolf-Rehfeldt, Ruth. Signs Fiction. (Motto Books)

Fiction

Crowe, Michael. An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in GTA Online. (Studio Operative)

Desnos, Robert. The Punishments of Hell. (Atlas Press)

Garréta, Anne. Not One Day. (Deep Vellum)

Non-fiction

Briggs, Kate. This Little Art. (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Hunt, Andrew and Nicola Simpson, eds. dom sylvester houédard. (Richard Saltoun)

Krukowski, Damon. The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World. (The New Press)

Scott, Jordan. Lanterns at Guantánamo. (SFU writers in residence chapbook series)

Photography (& more)

Zelazo, Suzanne, ed. Janieta Eyre: Incarnations. (Coach House Books)

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Most Engaging Books of 2016

December 5, 2016 //

Once again, December brings an opportunity to reflect upon the year’s publications. Like previous years, my “most engaging books” list reflects what i found most fascinating / useful / generative. Seek out these volumes, every one will reward the search. Your local, independent, bookstore can help…. This is the cream of the crop for 2016, seriously:

Poetry

Abel, Jordan. Injun. (Talonbooks)
Hajnoczky, Helen. Magyarázni. (Coach House Books)
Scott, Jordan. Night & Ox. (Coach House Books)
Snelson, Danny. Radios. (Make Now)
Surani, Moez. Operación Opération Operation 行动 Oперация. (Bookthug)

Non-Fiction

Bernstein, Charles. Pitch of Poetry. (University of Chicago)
Cage, John. The Selected Letters of John Cage. Ed. Laura Kuhn. (Wesleyan UP)
Goldsmith, Kenneth. Against Translation. (Jean Boîte Éditions)
Goldsmith, Kenneth. Wasting Time on the Internet. (Harper Perennial)
Williams, Gilda, ed. On&By Andy Warhol. (MIT / Whitechapel Gallery)

Work in Translation

Aragon, Louis. Anicet, or the Panorama. Trans. Antony Melville. (Atlas Press)
Audin, Michèle. One Hundred Twenty-One Days. Trans. Christiana Hills (Deep Vellum)
Michaux, Henri. Life in the Folds. Trans. Darren Jackson. (Wakefield Press)
Reverdy, Pierre. The Thief of Talant. Trans. Ian Seed. (Wakefield Press)
Soupault, Phillipe. Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism. Trans. Alan Bernheimer. (City Lights Books)

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readings and events at ACAD (and around Calgary) in the next couple weeks!

November 25, 2013 //

My students, colleagues and I have organized some phenomenal (and free) events at Alberta College of Art + Design and around Calgary over the next few weeks, don’t miss out!

Wednesday NOV 27th 12:30-1:30: Chris Frey and Julia Petrov will be speaking in Room 520 in the last Liberal Studies Speakers Series of 2013 — come on out, bring a friend!

Thursday NOV 28th 5:15: probably Canada’s most important contemporary sound artist / composer, John Oswald, will be talking in Room 595.

Friday NOV 29 12:30-1:50: my ENGL216 students will launch PRY— a zine / compilation of interviews done by ACAD students of local (Calgary and Alberta) artists, writers and poets — in Room 520. Food and drinks will be served. Many of the interviewees will be in attendance at the release party.

Thursday DEC 5 5:30-9:00: (RE)VERB, A multimedia event in response to Decomp by Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott. Featuring a reading and talk by Jordan Scott and performances and sound art pieces by students in ENGL315 (Room 595)

Friday DEC 6 7:30pm at PAGES BOOKS: Jordan Scott will be reading from his new book Decomp (co-written with Stephen Collis and published by Coach House Books) and Aaron Giovannone will be reading selections from his forthcoming book The Loneliness Machine (Insomniac Press)

Thursday DEC 12 7:30pm at PAGES BOOKS: Christian Bök (author of Eunoia), Paul Zits (author of Massacre Street) and I will be reading as part of filling Station magazine’s Flywheel reading series.

and A REMINDER: I’m still hoping to gather 35 working portable manual typewriters for my January 2014 Creative Writing class at ACAD. Can you help?