Books I got* in May
Beverly Dahlen: A-Reading Spicer & eighteen sonnets (2004)
H.D.: Collected Poems: 1912-1944
H.D.: HERmione (1981)
Jorie Graham: Erosion (1983)
Emmanuel Hocquard: Conditions of Light: Elegies (tr. from the French by Jean-Jacques Poucel)
Bhanu Kapil: Humanimal: A Project for Future Children (2009)
Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet (tr. from the German by Stephen Mitchell)
My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008)
American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (ed. Cole Swensen & David St John, 2009)
L. Lacambra Ypil: The Highest Hiding Place (2009)
*this includes books I bought, books I got for free from the publishers and a gift from a friend (L. Lacambra Ypil, the author of the last book)
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Books I read in April and May
- Frank Bidart: The Book of the Body (1977)
- Christine Garren: Among the Monarchs (2000)
- Jorie Graham: The End of Beauty (1987)
- Geoffrey Hill: Mercian Hymns (1971)
- Brigit Pegeen Kelly: Song (1995)
- Marni Ludwig: Little Box of Cotton and Lightning (2012)
- Carl Phillips: Double Shadow (2011)
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Duino Elegies (1923, tr. from the German by Stephen Mitchell)
- Amina Saïd: The Present Tense of the World: Poems 2000-2009 (tr. from the French by Marilyn Hacker) — review forthcoming in Asymptote‘s July issue
- CD Wright: Deepstep Come Shining (1998)
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Movies I watched in April and May
(in order from best to worst)
- Robert Bresson: Journal d’un curé de campagne (1951, France)
- Miklós Janscó: The Red and the White (1967, Hungary)
- Atom Egoyan: The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Canada)**
- Bruno Dumont: Flandres (2006, France)**
- David Cronenberg: Videodrome (1983, Canada)*
- Chris Newby: Anchoress (1993, UK)
- Neils Arden Oplev: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Sweden)
- Daniel Alfredson: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Sweden)
- James Ivory: Howard’s End (1992, UK)
- Joss Whedon: Serenity (2005, USA)
- Christopher Monger: The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995, UK)
- Joss Whedon: The Avengers (2012, USA)
- Roger Kumble: Cruel Intentions (1999, USA)
- Adrian Lyne: Fatal Attraction (1987, USA)
- John Schultz: Drive Me Crazy (1999, USA)
**not a first viewing
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