Another measly contribution to the pile. No excuses this time.
I don’t know much about how to read poetry but John Ashbery’s Planisphere makes it easy. The poems are playful and encyclopedic, full of facts and slang and notes about French things. Nikky Finney’s Head Off and Split is an astonishing autopsy of American history and deserving of all the good things the whole world is saying about it. Lis Harris’ Holy Days is the closest thing to an ethnography I’ve read since I graduated with a degree in Anthropology nine months ago and I would recommend it to everyone.
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