In this installment, Tan Lin shares some of his favorite books from our collection. Listen to the reading he gave following on Voca.
Talking at the Boundaries, David Antin
Freedom Hill, L.S. Asekoff
The Tennis Court Oath, John Ashbery
The Sophist, Charles Bernstein
Bean Spasms, Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett
The Sonnets, Ted Barrigan
I Remember, Joe Brainard
Mine: The One that Enters the Stories, Clark Coolidge
Concordat Provisio Ascendant, Christopher Dewdney
Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry, Anne Day Dewey
Gunslinger, Edward Dorn
Alehouse Sonnets, Norman Dubie
The Collected Later Poems and Plays, Robert Duncan
Educating the Imagination vols. 1 and 2, edited by Christopher Edgar and Ron Padgett
The Waste Land and Other Poems, T.S. Eliot
Une Semiane De Bonté: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage, Max Ernst
Collected Poems, Roy Fisher
Sprawl, Robert Fitterman
The Manuscripts of Emily Dickinson vols. 1 and 2, edited by R.W. Franklin
We Are Here, Kristen Gallager
Head Citations, Kenneth Goldsmith
No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96, Kenneth Goldsmith
Christian Name, Lawrence Griffin
Sorites, Lawrence Griffin
Rational Meaning, Laura (Riding) Jackson and Schuyler B. Jackson, edited by William Harman
The Pleasures of Peace, Kenneth Koch
Grace Period: Notebooks, 1998 - 2007, Aaron Kunin
You are a Little Bit Happier than I Am, Tao Lin
The Complete Purge, Trisha Low
The Lost Lunar Baedeker, Mina Loy
154 Forties, Jackson Mac Low, edited by Anne Tardos
Imagination Verses, Jennifer Moxley
Muse & Drudge, Harryette Mullen
Alice Ordered Me to Be Made, Alice Notely
At Night the States, Alice Notely
Busy Dying, Hilton Obenzinger
Meditations in an Emergency, Frank O’Hara
The Materials, George Oppen
Seascape: Needle’s Eye, George Oppen
Ere-Voice, Carl Rakosi
Experts are Puzzled, Laura Riding
Anarchism is Not Enough, Laura Riding
How I Wrote Certain of My Books, Raymond Roussel
Way, Leslie Scalapino
That They Were at the Beach, Leslie Scalapino
The Ages of Huts (complete), Ron Silliman
Response, Juliana Spahr
The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
The Tower of Babel: Jack Spicer’s Detective Novel
My New Job, Catherine Wagner
The Crisis of Infinite Worlds, Dana Ward
Shall We Gather at the River, James Wright
Ing Grish, John Yau with artwork by Thomas Nozkowski
A, Louis Zukofsky
Cop Kisser, Steven Zultanski
From the Stacks features writers from our Reading & Lecture Series sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry.