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.

Renee Angle is the author of WoO (Letter Machine Editions, 2016). Her writing has appeared in the literary journals Entropy Magazine, Western Humanities Review, The Volta, Diagram,Practice New Art + Writing, Sonora Review, EOAGH in addition to the anthology I'LL DROWN MY BOOK: CONCEPTUAL WRITING BY WOMEN (Les Figues Press, 2012), and in the chapbook Lucy Design in the Papal Flea (dancing girl press, 2010). She lives and works in Tucson, AZ, where she is an archivist for The League for Holographic Music and the Education Programs Coordinator for the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She holds an MFA from George Mason University. 

 

 

Renee's selections From the Stacks are:

The Memoirs of Jonbenet by Kathy Acker

Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney

Against the Current by Tedi López Mills (Translated by Wendy Burk)

Black Movie by Danez Smith

Notes on the Assemblage by Juan Felipe Herrera

Life Studies by Robert Lowell

ARK by Ronald Johnson

A Year From Monday by John Cage

Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry by Paul Clean (Translated by Pierre Joris)

Robert Duncan (The Ambassador From Venus): A Biography by Lisa Jarnot