read the awesomest three books this year and we’re only three weeks into 2012–
Coeur de Lion by Ariana Reines
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
The Book of Frank by CA Conrad
feel like a lucky girl to be alive and have all this at my fingertips.
they are in my bones now.
the Salter is the perfect book for me at 32, a fantasist, a little afraid of the reaches of my fantasy-life, a lot afraid, fearing aging, thinking of boys and trying to hitch back onto adolescence. this is the book of the buggering in the bum. it is aesthetic bliss. a tiny realist in me was like “doesn’t Ann Marie Costellot ever have a dirty bum?” but the realist was eclipsed by the love and breath and mystery in Salter’s craftsmanship. what a pleasure this book. the most beautiful.
all i can say about Reines is that she is in me now like a hot virus and i am smitten. my friend Kristen Iskandrian says i have the fever and she knows it well. i just ordered The Cow. excited.
the Conrad book is full of exciting language that knocks and kicks — really sad and melty and strange and funny in exactly the way that life is, you know?
the Reines and the Conrad make me excited about what a book-length collection can be.
a poem shaped like a book.
a book shaped like a poem.
yeah gurl. love that ‘book of frank’ too. <3
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I second that — the Book o Frank is one special little book. Every time CA stays over my house, my living room is COVERED in purple glitter and I love it.
wow! two ppl came here!