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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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most engaging books 2014

December 19, 2014 //

Once again, December brings an opportunity to reflect upon the year’s books. Like previous years, my “most engaging books” list is idiosyncratic and reflects what i found most fascinating / useful / generative. Seek out these volumes, every one will reward the search (and your local, independent, bookstore can help…). This was an amazing year for poetry with many titles that were simply exceptional. This is the cream of the crop for 2014, seriously: