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You may not want to "count" Ruefle's book but it would be great if you reviewed it. Good to hear about books that are about poetry as well as those that are full of poems.
I enjoyed Mary Ruefle's about-poetry book, Madness, Rack and Honey, very much. I've put some quotations from it on my blog, which is as close as I'm likely to get to a review. You can find my comments at: http://freethoughtandmetaphor.com/201...
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My friend Bobby Byrd got shoved aside by visitors. Here is the current order:5. Reaching for Air by Gayle Lauradunn
6. standing in astonishment by John Tritica
Currently reading, but don't know which I'll get to reviewing first: Cornelia Veenendaal, An Argument of Roots, and Bobby Byrd, Otherwise, My Life is Ordinary.
7. Otherwise, My Life is Ordinary by Bobby Byrd8. Be That Empty by Alice B. Fogel
9. An Argument of Roots by Cornelia Veenendaal.
If this burst of energy makes you think I'm on vacation, you're right. I return home next week to various responsibilities, so things will quiet down on the reviewing front.
The next thing in my to-read pile is Mona Van Duyn's Near Changes, Pulitzer Prize Winner for 1991. She's someone I feel I should know more about.
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I've let this list slip, but here's the year end report:9. Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn
10. River of Light by John Morgan
11. Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy
12. Mind the Light by Suellen Wedmore
13. From Sand Creek by Simon J. Ortiz
My favorite? Probably Our Andromeda
2. Companion Grasses, by Brian Teare. Read in 2014 and set aside.
3. Cloud Pharmacy by Susan Rich
4. The Map of What Happened, by Susan Elbe
5. Otherwise, My Life is Ordinary, by Bobby Byrd
#3, 4, and 5 I acquired in November, and may not read them in this order.
This is about half of my too-read pile. I think I got a little greedy this year.
I am also reading Mary Ruefle's Madness, Rack and Honey, but I don't think that counts; it's a collection of essays/lectures on matters poetic. I'm finding it delightful: sometimes encouraging, sometimes wacky.