a list of my favourite 2019 reads (in no particular order)
salemwitchtrials:
- ‘view with a grain of sand: selected poems,’ wisława szymborska
- ‘the complete collected poems of maya angelou’
- ‘art objects,’ jeanette winterson
- ‘by grand central station i sat down and wept,’ elizabeth smart
- ‘seam,’ tarfia faizullah
- ‘play it as it lays,’ joan didion
- ‘war of the foxes,’ richard siken
- ‘midwinter day,’ bernadette mayer
- ‘in the pines,’ alice notley
- ‘death is not an option,’ suzanne rivecca
- ‘the dead and the living,’ sharon olds
- ‘the melancholy of anatomy,’ shelley jackson
- ‘edinburgh,’ alexander chee
- ‘the woman destroyed,’ simone de beauvoir
- ‘monster: poems,’ robin morgan
- ‘how we became human,’ joy harjo
- ‘ayiti,’ roxane gay
- ‘our andromeda,’ brenda shaughnessy
- ‘second childhood,’ fanny howe
- ‘the lady in the looking glass,’ virginia woolf
- ‘the journals of joyce carol oates’
- ‘mathilda,’ mary shelley
- ‘flame & shadow,’ sara teasdale
- ‘go tell it on the mountain,’ james baldwin
- ‘stag’s leap,’ sharon olds
- ‘hyperdream,’ hélène cixous
- ‘devotions,’ mary oliver
- ‘the center cannot hold,’ elyn r. saks
- ‘sexing the cherry,’ jeanette winterson
- ‘the bloody chamber,’ angela carter
- ‘on earth we’re briefly gorgeous,’ ocean vuong
- ‘flesh wounds,’ virginia l. blum
- ‘the journals of joyce carol oates’
- ‘selected poems of frank o’hara’
- ‘the dream of a common language,’ adrienne rich
- ‘on beauty,’ zadie smith
- ‘the four chambered heart,’ anaïs nin
- ‘gravity and grace,’ simone weil
- ‘selected poems of anna akhmatova’
- ‘collected poems of t.s. eliot’
- ‘decreation,’ anne carson
- ‘collected works of susan sontag’
- ‘collected works of virginia woolf’
- ‘the woman destroyed,’ simone de beauvoir
- ‘garments against women,’ anne boyer
- ‘the love of a good woman,’ alice munro
- ‘her body and other parties,’ carmen maria machado
- ‘the hour of the star,’ clarice lispector
- ‘good bones,’ margaret atwood
- ‘collected poems of sylvia plath’
- ‘selected works of joan didion’
- ‘devotion,’ patti smith
- ‘veil and burn,’ laurie clements lambeth
- ‘grief lessons,’ anne carson
- ‘the collected poems of audre lorde’
- ‘erosion,’ jorie graham
- ‘the empathy exams,’ leslie jamison
- ‘the beauty myth,’ naomi wolf
- ‘selected works of sarah kane’
- ‘waiting,’ marya hornbacher
- ‘sane,’ marya hornbacher
- ‘stigmata,’ hélène cixous
- ‘a field guide to getting lost,’ rebecca solnit
- ‘keith haring journals’
- ‘written on the body,’ jeanette winterson
- ‘night sky with exit wounds,’ ocean vuong
- ‘crush,’ richard siken
- ‘haruko / love poems,’ june jordan
- ‘bluets,’ maggie nelson
- ‘the collected poems of lucille clifton’
- ‘complete poems of mariannne moore’
- ‘poems and prose,’ christina rossetti
- ‘the gentrification of the mind,’ sarah schulman
- ‘power politics,’ margaret atwood
- ‘a girl is a half-formed thing,’ eimear mcbride
- ‘one secret thing,’ sharon olds
- ‘the silent woman,’ janet malcom
- ‘the white book,’ han kang
- ‘braiding sweetgrass,’ robin wall kimmerer
- ‘not vanishing,’ chrystos
- ‘sinners welcome,’ mary karr
- ‘cat’s eye,’ margaret atwood
- ‘zami / sister outsider / undersong,’ audre lorde
- ‘sula,’ toni morrison
- ‘we sinful women,’ rukhsana ahmed
- ‘the house on mango street,’ sandra cisneros
- ‘blood and guts in highschool,’ kathy acker
- ‘unbearable weight,’ susan bordo
- ‘rhapsody in plain yellow,’ marilyn chin
- ‘the hunger moon,’ marge piercy
- ‘trash,’ dorothy allison
- ‘the cocktail party,’ t.s. eliot
- ‘love lessons,’ alda merini
- ‘selected poems of marina tsvetaeva’
- ‘disorder,’ vanesha pravin
- ‘a strangers mirror,’ marilyn hacker
- ‘human acts,’ han kang
- ‘dearest creature,’ amy gerstler
- ‘when my brother was an aztec,’ natalie diaz
- ‘second childhood,’ fanny howe
- ‘when the ghosts come ashore,’ jacqui germain
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