Books I read in 2023

Disclaimer: this list is probably missing a ton of really good poetry pamphlets that are in my room somewhere, sorry.



Gabby Bess, Alone with Other People (2013)

Charles R. Cross, Heavier than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (2001)

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962)

Anahid Nersessian, The Calamity Form (2020)

Robert Sullivan, The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures on the Edge of New York City (1999)

Hannah Weiner, Hannah Weiner’s Open House (2006)

Penelope Lewis and RA Page (eds), Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep (2015)

Kerry Hudson, Lowborn (2019)

Rose Ruane, This is Yesterday (2021)

Bernadette Mayer and Greg Masters, At Maureen’s (2013)

Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons (2019)

Maggie O’Sullivan, murmur: Tasks of Mourning (2011)

Nina Mingya Powles, Small Bodies of Water (2021)

Tom Raworth, Removed for further study: the poetry of Tom Raworth (2003)

Torrey Peters, Detransition Baby (2021)

Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy (2017)

Nadia de Vries, Know Thy Audience (2023)

Savannah Brown, Closer Baby, Closer (2023)

Suzanna Slack, White Spirit Videotelephony (2023)

Suzanna Slack, Luxury Profile (2021)

Patti Smith, Just Kids (2010)

Jessie Widner, Interiors (2022)

Aaron Kent & John Welson, Requiem for Bioluminescence (2022)

Christiane F., Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F. (1978)

Kaisa Saarinen, Weather Underwater (2023)

Fern Brady, Strong Female Character (2023)

Felix Bernstein, Notes on Conceptual Poetics (2015)

Rosemary Mayer, Ways of Attaching (2022)

Shehzar Doja, Let Us (Or, the Invocation of Smoke) (2023)

Will Harris, Brother Poem (2023)

Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience (2023)

Maggie O’Sullivan, murmur: tasks of mourning (2011)

Taylor Strickland, Dastrum/Delirium (2023)

Andrew Durbin, Skyland (2020)

Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life (2002)

Savannah Brown, Closer baby closer (2023)

Gareth Farmer, KERF (2022)

Ian Heames, Sonnets (2023)

Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds (2010)

Chris Kraus, I Love Dick (1997)

Samantha Walton, Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure (2021)

Stephanie LaCava, I Fear My Pain Interests You (2022)

Zara Butcher-McGunnigle, Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life (2021)

Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less (2022)

Dana Ward, Some Other Deaths of Bas Jan Ader (2013)

Rob Halpern, Hieroglyph of the Inverted World (2021)

Eugene Ostashevsky and Galina Rymbu, F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry (2020)

Amy Key, Arrangements in Blue (2023)

bell hooks, All About Love (2000)

gentian meikleham, Kare Hansen, Sofia Archontis, Ruby Lawrence, William Knox, Meredith Macleod, Leonie Staartjes, Brave Dog (2023)

Tom Betteridge, Dog Shades (2023)

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love (1993)

Johanna Hedva, Your Love is No Good (2023)

Tom Raworth, Earn Your Milk (2009)

Maggie Nelson, The Red Parts (2007)

Robert Creeley, The Charm (1969)

Briony Hughes, Milk (2023)

Eduoard Louis, History of Violence (2016)

Eileen Myles, A “Working Life” (2023)

Daniel Alexander Jones, Love Like Light (2021)

Ivy Allsop, purge fluid (2022)

Stephanie Young, Ursula or University (2013)

Kristin Ross, The Politics and Poetic of Everyday Life (2023)

Jarvis Cocker, Good Pop Bad Pop (2022)

Alice Notley, The Speak Angel Series (2023)

Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing (2022)

Christina Chalmers, Subterflect (2023)

Suzanna Slack, gummizone (2023)

Greg Thomas, Candle Poems (2023)

Julia O’Toole, Heroin: A true story of drug addiction, hope and triumph (2005)

Kristine McKenna and David Lynch, Room to Dream (2018)

Lee Ann Brown and Bernadette Mayer, Oh You Nameless and Unnamed Ridges (2022)

Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (2023)

Laynie Browne, Intaglio Daughters (2023)

Naomi Klein, doppelgänger (2023)

Elisabeth Roudinesco and Jacques Derrida, For What Tomorrow…: A Dialogue (2001)

J. R. Carpenter, An Ocean of Static (2018)

Alan McGee, Creation Stories (2013)

Jackie Wang, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood (2023)

Sarah Schulman, Girls, Visions & Everything (1986)

Hélène Cixous, Manhattan, trans. by Beverly Bie Brahic(2007)

Antonio Tabucchi, Requiem: A Hallucination, trans. by Margaret Jull Costa (1994)

Bernadette Mayer, Another Smashed Pinecone (1998)