From the Stacks is a regular series on the Poetry Center Blog in which we solicit authors to wander our library and choose books that have been important to them and/or that they recommend.

Wendy Burk’s work has appeared in Spiral Orb, Terrain.org, Asymptote, Aufgabe,VOLT, Trickhouse and others. Wendy is the recipient of a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Projects Fellowship and a 2015 Artist Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She is the translator of Tedi López Mills’s Against the Current (Phoneme Media) and While Light Is Built (Kore Press), and is the librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her book Tree Talks: Southern Arizona is now available from Delete Press.

 

 

Call Me Ishmael Tonight, Agha Shahid Ali

WoO, Renee Angle,

Rave, Poems 1975-1999, Olga Broumas

The Morning News Is Exciting, Don Mee Choi

Ecodeviance, CAConrad

The Book of Medicines, Linda Hogan

Born of a Woman, Etheridge Knight

The Marvelous Arithemetics of Distance, Audre Lorde

The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide, Edited by Eric Magrane & Christopher Cokinos

Grapefruit, Yoko Ono

To And From, G.E. Patterson

From Unincorporated Territory, Craig Santos Perez

A Small Story About the Sky, Alberto Ríos

Blue Horses Rush In, Luci Tapahonso

Antígona González, Sara Uribe

You., Joseph P. Wood

Where Clouds Are Formed, Ofelia Zepeda