Regardez-moi bien! Je suis idiot, je suis un farceur, je suis un fumiste. Regardez-moi bien! Je suis laid, mon visage n’a pas d’expression, je suis petit. Je suis comme vous tous!’
— Tristan Tzara, February 1920 at the Universite ́Populaire de Faubourg Saint-Antoine
99 bottles of books et al.
The ones staggered with marginalia, ordered alphabetically — acknowledging that I finally gave up on providing links to all of them, but promising to do so “eventually,” as they say — acknowledging that I did not get to add much of the poetry I adored but promising to do so in the New Year, as they say, or in a few weeks — admitting that 99 was the numerical cut-off I set for myself in order to finish others and prevent the list from growing too noisy — acknowledging that noisy is my middle name — acknowledging, too, that asterisks mark the texts I continue to sleep with.
O! Pray for me, saints. Mais
oui, dance with me, demons.
A. G. Valentine, The Apoptotic Era (Thirty West Publishing House)
A. S. Hamrah, Last Week in End Times Cinema (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents)
Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press)
Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (FC2)
Amit Chauhari, Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999 - 2023 (NYRB)
Anaïs Duplan, I Need Music (Action Books)
Anna Moschovakis, An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth (Soft Skull Press)
Anne Berest & Claire Berest, Gabriële trans. by Tina Kover (Europa Editions) *
Antonio Di Benedetto, The Suicides trans. by Esther Allen (NYRB Classics)
Ben Libman, The Third Solitude: A Memoir Against History (Dundurn Press)
Ben Peek, The Red Labyrinth (Snuggly Books)
Bill Peel, Against Ambition (Repeater Books)
Bruno Dario, Lantana, or The Indissoluble Exhalation trans. by Kit Schluter (Ugly Ducking Press)
César Aira, The Famous Magician trans. by Chris Andrews (New Directions)
Christian Lehnert, Wickerwork, trans. by Richard Sieburth (Archipelago Books)
Claire Bateman, The Pillow Museum (FC2)
Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Verso)
Clark Coolidge &Tom Clark, Rock Notes (Lithic Press)
Conner Bouchard-Roberts, A Field Guide for Wandering 9th edition (Winter Texts)
Dan Elkind, Dr Chizhevsky’s Chandelier: The Decline of the USSR and Other Heresies of the Twentieth Century (Repeater Books)
Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant, eds. Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press)
Daniel A. Hoyt, Shit List (Whiskey Tit)
Dao Strom, Yellow Songs 4: Motherwound (The 3rd Thing)
David Biespiel, The Education of a Young Poet (Counterpoint Press)
David Collard, A Crumpled Swan: Fifty Essays about Abigail Parry's 'In the Dream of the Cold Restaurant' (Sagging Meniscus Press)
David Dark, Everyday Apocalypse: Art, Empire, and the End of the World (Vanderbilt Press)
Deborah Thomas, Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance (Duke University Press)
Dodie Bellamy, Cunt Norton (Tender Buttons Press)
Dorothea Lasky, Memory (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
Emily Skillings, Tantrums in Air (The Song Cave)
Erin Dorney, Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering (Auto Focus Books)
Fatima Bhutto & Sonia Faleiro, eds. Gaza: The Story of a Genocide (Verso)
Federica Marzi, My Home Somewhere Else trans. by Jim Hicks (Sandorf Passage)
Garielle Lutz, Backwardness: From Letters and Notebooks, 1973–2023 (Calamari Archive)
George Seferis, Book of Exercises II trans. by Jennifer Kellogg (World Poetry)
Gerhard Rühm, The Folded Clock: 100 Number Poems trans. by Alexander Booth (Twisted Spoon Press)
Grace Byron, Herucline (Simon & Schuster)
Hans Blumenberg, The Readability of the World trans. by Robert Savage & David Roberts (Cornell Univeristy Press)
Hayim Nahman Bialik, On the Slaughter trans. by Peter Cole (NYRB Poets)
Héctor Abad, Aside from My Heart, All is Well, trans. by Anne McLean (Archipelago Books)
Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff, Your Name Here (Dalkey Archive Press)
Ian Penman, Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite (Semiotext(e)
Inès Cagnati, Crazy Genie trans. by Liesl Schillinger (NYRB Classics)
Jacob Wren, Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim (Book*Hug Press)
Jarrod Shanahan, Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms (PM Press)
Jean D’Amérique, Workshop of Silence: Poems trans. by Conor Bracken (Vanderbilt Press)
Jeff Alesandrelli, And Yet: A Novel About Sex and Shyness and Society (Future Tense Books)
Joanna Pocock, Greyhound: A Memoir (Soft Skull Press)
Joanna Walsh, Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters (Verso)
Jonathan Howard, Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness (Duke University Press)
Jules Laforgue, Moral Tales trans. by William Jay Smith (New Directions)
Julie Carr, The Garden (Essay Press)
Julio Cortázar, A Certain Lucas trans. by Gregory Rabassa (New Directions)
Justin Perez, Queer Emergent: Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru (Duke University Press)
Kate Colby, Paradoxx (Essay Press)
Katrina Roberts, ed. Because You Asked (Lost Horse Press)
Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Ancient Algorithms (Sarabande Books)
Kim Farrar, The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird (Unsolicited Press)
Krisztina Tóth, Eye of the Monkey: A Novel trans. by Ottilie Mulzet (Seven Stories Press)
Lauren Cook, Sex Goblin (Nightboat Books)
Leopoldina Fortunati, The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital (Verso)
Logan Berry, Doom is the House Without a Door (Inside the Castle)
Liliana Corobca, Too Great A Sky: A Novel trans. by Monica Cure (Seven Stories Press)
Lisa Olstein, Distinguished Office of Echoes (Copper Canyon Press)
Lucy Sante, Six Sermons for Bob Dylan (Tenement Press)
Macedonio Fernández, The Complete Poems of Macedonio Fernández trans. by Jessica Sequeira (Sublunary Editions)
Marguerite Duras, Six Films trans. by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan (The MIT Press)
Maša Kolanović, Underground Barbie trans. by Ena Selimović (Sandorf Passage)
Markus Werner, The Frog in the Throat trans. by Michael Hofmann (NYRB Classics)
McKenzie Wark, Love and Money, Sex and Death: A Memoir (Verso Books)
Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain" (Yale University Press)
Nazareth Hassan, Slow Mania (Future Poems)
Nebojša Lujanović, Cloud the Color of Skin trans. by Ena Selimović (Fraktura)
Oke Fijal, Marina Gržinić, Sen Reyes and Melina Vesely, Sexual Dissidences: Frau Diamanda’s Catalan Scenes, the Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-canonical Knowledge (Sternberg Press)
Olga Ravn, The Wax Child trans. by Martin Aitken (New Directions)
Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed, The Nightmare Sequence (Nightboat Books)
Orchid Tierney, this abattoir is a college (Calamari Archive)
Paul Valéry, Monsieur Teste trans. by Charlotte Mandell (NYRB Classics)
Peter Weiss, The Aesthetics of Resistance: Volume III trans. by Joel Bloom (Duke University Press)
Pierre Guyotat, Idiocy trans. by Peter Behrman de Sinéty (NYRB Classics)
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Testament trans. by Mark Kanak, ed. by Rainer J. Hanshe (Contra Mundum Press)
Robert Gluck, Jack the Modernist (NYRB Classics)
Roger Shattuck, The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron (NYRB Classics)
Ronald M. Schernikau, SMALLTOWNNOVELLA trans. by Lucy Jones (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Ryan Ruby, Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry (Seven Stories Press)
Sam Kunkel and Jessica Gossling, eds. The Decadent Bestiary (MIT Press)
Shane Kowalski, Are There People Out There (Future Tense Press)
Shira Dentz, Sisyphusina (Astrophil Press)
Sigfried Kracauer, Ginster: Written By Himself trans. by Carl Skoggard (NYRB Classics) *
Srikanth Reddy, The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures (Wave Books)
Stephanie Wambagu, Lonely Crowds (Little Brown)
Stephen Rodefer, Four Lectures (NYRB Poets)
Thomas Walton, Unsavory Thoughts (Sagging Meniscus Press)
Todd Macgowan, Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn’t Try to Find Ourselves (Repeater Books)
Victor Serge, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems, trans. by James Brook (PM Press) *
Vigdis Hjorth — three of them (hoping to finish edits on this draft essay that has gained the girth of a novella due to my recklessness in thinking and writing yes please knock on all yr woods for me)
Viktor Shklovsky, Zoo, or Letters Not About Love trans. by Richard Seldon (Dalkey Archive Press)
Witold Wirpsza, Apotheosis of Music trans. by Frank L. Vigoda (World Poetry)
Yoko Tawada, Exophony (New Directions)
Zuzana Brabcová, Ceilings trans. by Tereza Novická (Twisted Spoon Press)
[It will take one more list to finish off my brain in the past year, so please count on it next month…]