Suggested Reading Living Root: A Memoir, autobiography by Michael Heller A Homemade World, criticism by Hugh Kenner Hole in the Wall: New & Selected Poems, by Tom Pickard Amulet, poems by Carl Rakosi Liars in Love, stories by Richard Yates Suggested Listening Every Night Fight for Your Life CD, Chris Mills Solo Monk CD,Thelonious Monk […]

Suggested Reading Rave, poems by Olga Broumas A Fan’s Notes, fiction by Frederick Exley The Book of Nightmares, poem by Galway Kinnell Two Cities: a Love Story, fiction by John Edgar Wideman Reasons for Knocking at An Empty House, essays/notes by Bill Viola Suggested Listening Home Late CD, Bellwether Out to Lunch CD, Eric Dolphy […]

Suggested Reading Adultery & Other Choices, stories by Andre Dubus Gratitude, poems by Sam Hamill Collected Poems, George Oppen Hoop Roots, essays by John Edgar Wideman Quarter Notes: Improvisations & Interviews, by Charles Wright Suggested Listening And No More Shall We Part CD, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds The Eternals CD, The Eternals Retrograde […]

Suggested Reading Circles of Confusion, essays, mostly on photography & film, by Hollis Frampton Light Up the Cave, essays by Denise Levertov He Sleeps, fiction by Reginald McKnight Reasons for Moving, poems by Mark Strand Negative Blue, poems by Charles Wright Suggested Listening Gula Matari LP, Quincy Jones New Favorite CD, Alison Krauss & Union […]

Suggested Reading The Sleeping Beauty, poem by Hayden Carruth Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays, Guy Davenport Doors of Perception, essays on typography & printing by Harry Duncan Collected Poems, Paul Goodman Willard Gibbs: American Genius, biography by Muriel Rukeyser Suggested Listening Gold CD, Ryan Adams The Argument LP, Fugazi Straight Life CD, Freddie […]

Suggested Reading Reluctantly, autobiographical essays by Hayden Carruth Two-Way Mirror Power, selected essays & interviews by Dan Graham Watchfulness, poems by Peter O’Leary Democracy in America, Vol. 1, Alexis de Toqueville Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-1987, Charles Wright Suggested Listening Field Recordings from the Cook County Water Table CD, Brokeback Waltzie CD EP, Caitlin Cary […]

Suggested Reading Doctor Jazz, poems by Hayden Carruth Finding a Girl in America, stories by Andre Dubus Gone to Earth, poems by Pam Rehm The Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, Vol. 2, edited by Jane Bannard Greene & M.D. Herter Norton The Life of Poetry, by Muriel Rukeyser Suggested Listening Canadian Amp CD EP, Neko […]

Suggested Reading Home Movies & Other Necessary Fictions, essays & scripts by Michelle Citron Geography of the Imagination, essays by Guy Davenport Selected Stories, by Andre Dubus First Diasporist Manifesto, art manifesto by R.B. Kitaj Letter to an Imaginary Friend, poem by Thom McGrath Lancelot, fiction by Walker Percy Suggested Listening Identikit CD, Burning Airlines […]