Books I read in 2025

Leah Wilson (ed.), A Friday Night Lights Companion: Love, Loss, and Football in Dillon, Texas (2011)

Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, Ted Pearson, The Grand Piano: Part 3 (2007)

Molly Brodak, Cipher (2020)

Jonathan Coe, The House of Sleep (1997)

Blake Butler, Molly (2023)

Alessandra Thom, Summer Hours (2025)

Clark Coolidge, The Crystal Text (1986)

Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)

David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (2006)

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, La Movida (2022)

Ted Rees, Thanksgiving (2020)

Laynie Browne, Intaglio Daughters (2023) 

Laynie Browne, Acts of Levitation (2002)

Ida Marie Hede, Adorable trans. by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg (2017/2021) 

Hélène Cixous, Hemlock, trans. by Beverley Bie Brahic (2008/2011)

Juliana Spahr, Ars Poeticas (2025)

Jameson Fitzpatrick, Pricks in the Tapestry (2020)

Lisa Fishman, Dear, Read (2002)

Julien Poirier, Out of Print (2016)

Juliana Spahr, This Connection of Everything with Lungs (2005)

Bianca Rae Messinger, pleasureis amiracle (2025)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Days and Works (2017)

Jennifer Soong, My Earliest Person (2025)

Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, Ted Pearson, The Grand Piano: Part 4 (2007)

Duncan Hannah, 20th Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies (2018)

Ariana Reines, The Rose (2025)

Brenda Hillman, Death Tractates (1992)

Peter Gizzi, Fierce Elegy (2023)

Anne Vickery and John Hawke (eds), Poetry and the Trace (2013)

Emily Segal, Mercury in Retrograde (2020)

Michael Nardone, Convivialities (2025)

Steven Zultanski, Help (2025)

Ariel Goldberg, The Estrangement Principle (2016)

Danielle Vogel, A Library of Light (2022) 

Fanny Howe, Selected Poems (2000)

Alice Notley, Early Works (2023)

Stephanie Anderson (ed.), Women in Independent Publishing: A History of Unsung Innovators 1953-1989 (2024)

Ariana Reines, Coeur de Lion (2007)

Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water (2019)

Lucy Ives, Human Events (2016)

Chloe García Roberts, Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology (2024)

Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems (1960)

Alan Davies, Raw War (2012)

Rebecca Wolff, One Morning— (2015)

Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette (1996)

Sean Pierson, The Perfect Season (2024)

Dom Hale, First Nettles (2025)

Syd Staiti, Seldom Approaches (2022)

Gillian Rose, Love’s Work (1995)

Imogen Cassels, Mother; beautiful things (2017)

Hesse K. Disquiet Drive (2024)

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving (2005)

Louise Glück, Marigold and Rose (2022)

Tom Raworth, Cancer (2025)

Boaz Yosef Friedman, Born in a burning house (2025)

Ada Smailbegović, The Cloud Notebook (2023)

Marie de Quartrebarbes, The Vitals, trans. by Aiden Farrell (2025)

Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead: A Novel, trans. by Charlotte Barslund (2022)

Isaac Jarnot, Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus (2012)

Lina Scheynius, Diary of an Ending, trans. by Saskia Vogel (2025)

Tom Byam Shaw, You Are Going to Regret This (2025)

Bruce Boone, My Walk with Bob (1979)

David Larsen, The Thorn (2005)

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)

Hélène Cixous, Hyperdream, trans. by Beverley Bie Brahic (2009)

Danny Hayward, Training Exercises (2024)

Matthew Goulish, Kingfisher (2024)

Suzanna Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (2024)

Mark Frost, The Secret History of Twin Peaks (2024)

Alex Marsh, Holding Pattern (2025)

Robert Glück, Margery Kempe (1994)

Michael W. Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin (2013)

Madeline Cash, Earth Angel (2023)

Tom Crompton, Wishbone Valley (2024)

Maggie Nelson, Bluets (2009)

Courtney Bush, The Lamb with the Talking Scroll (2025)

Bruce Boone, Century of Clouds (1980)

Evan Dando, Rumours of My Demise (2025)

Juliana Spahr and David Buuck, An Army of Lovers (2013)

Kevin Davies, The Golden Age of Paraphernalia (2008)

Tom Raworth, Structure from Motion (2015)

Rainer Diana Hamilton, Lilacs (2025)

Bernadette Mayer, Midwinter Day (1982)

Al Anderson, The Tired Angel (2025)

J.H. Prynne, Duets Infer Duty (2020)

Miranda July, All Fours (2024)

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