Books Read 2020

1.  Galvanized Iron On The Citizens' Band- Joseph Mosconi
2.  Open Space #0: A Prospectus
3.  Studio One Reading Series: 10 Years 54 Poets An Anthology
4.  Bastion- Eric Unger
5.  The Sequel- Michael Slosek
6.  Vats- Luke Daly
7.  Open Space #1
8.  Lost Girls- Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
9.  Ellos- Christian Delfino, Mike McMullen
10.  My Emily Dickinson- Susan Howe
11.  A Confession And Other Religious Writings- Leo Tolstoy
12.  Varieties Of Fascism- Eugen Weber
13.  The Treatise Of The Three Imposters- Anonymous
14.  Open Space #2
15.  Open Space #3
16.  Skitch #6
17.  Selected Prose (2008-2019)- Micah Ballard
18.  Open Space: Taurus Issue #4
19.  One #25
20.  Open Space #4 "White Hope"
21.  Sulfur #41
22.  New Sounds: A Listener's Guide To New Music- John Schaefer
23.  Hellboy: Seed Of Destruction Omnibus Vol 1- Mike Mignola, John Byrne
24.  Open Space #5
25.  Riviera: Photographs Of Palm Springs- John Brian King
26.  Open Space #6
27.  Open Space #7
28.  Character And Opinion In The United States- George Santayana
29.  Open Space #8
30.  Mare Island- Brooks Roddan
31.  G.I. Gurdjief: The War Against Sleep- Colin Wilson
32.  Open Space #9
33.  Nemo: River Of Ghosts- Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil
34.  Open Space # "Valentine"
35.  Open Space #10
36.  Open Space #11
37.  Sulfur #43
38.  Box #3
39.  The Fire: Collected Essays Of Robin Blaser- Robin Blaser, edited by Miriam Nichols
40.  Box #6
41.  Box #7
42.  Daily Bread #1
43.  Good Game- Andrew K. Peterson
44.  Tarot Psychology- Robert Wang
45.  The Invisibles: Book Two- Grant Morrison
46.  Daily Bread #4
47.  Daily Bread #8
48.  Daily Bread #10
49.  The California Poem- Eleni Sikelianos
50.  Daily Bread #11
51.  Humans And Horses- Logan Ryan Smith
52.  The God Of Salt And Light- Logan Ryan Smith
53.  Daily Bread #12
54.  Compeche- Joshua Edwards
55.  Daily Bread #13
56.  Men And Apes- Ramona Morris, Desmond Morris
57.  Memoir And Essay- Michael Gottlieb
58.  Daily Bread #14
59.  Daily Bread #15
60.  Daily Bread Vol. 9 #8
61.  Promethea: Book Three- Alan Moore, J.H. Williams, Mick Gray
62.  Daily Bread Vol. 10 #1
63.  New Testament: New Living Translation
64.  The Tommyknockers- Stephen King
65.  I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp- Richard Hell
66.  The Way Of Hermes: New Translations Of The Corpus Hermeticum And The Definitions Of Hermes Trismegistus To Asclepius- translated by Clement Salaman, Dorine Van Oyen, William D Wharton, Jean-Pierre Mahe
67.  Daily Bread #50
68.  Skip Boot Zine #2
69.  Five Fingers Review #21
70.  The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe- Douglas Adams
71.  Condensed Chaos: An Introduction To Chaos Magic- Phil Hine
72.  Daily Bread Vol. 10 #3
73.  The Book Of Results- Ray Sherwin
74.  Daily Bread Vol. 10 #4
75.  The Recovery Of The Public World: Essays On Poetics In Honour Of Robin Blaser- edited by Charles Watts, Edward Byrne
76.  YesThing NoThing- Edwin Torres
77.  A Plate Of Chicken- Matthew Rohrer
78.  Killing Kanoko- Hiromi Ito
79.  Art Fraud- Jeffrey Schrader
80.  The Greek Experience- C.M. Bowra
81.  Made-Up Interviews With Imaginary Artists- Alex Stein
82.  Promethea: Book Four- Alan Moore, J.H. Williams, Mick Gray
83.  Jesus- Humphrey Carpenter
84.  Lord Of The Flies- William Golding
85.  Adam Robison And Other Poems- Adam Robinson
86.  Rise Up- Matthew Rohrer
87.  The Fast- Hannah Weiner
88.  The Cow- Ariana Reines
89.  The Life And Opinions Of DJ Spinoza- Eugene Ostashevsky
90.  Muzzle/ Mushroom Blading zine
91.  Sketch Of The Artist- Patrick James Dunagan
92.  Mostly Clearing- Michael Gottlieb

Books Read 2019

1.  One #8
2.  One #9
3.  Sulfur #18
4.  One #11
5.  Beastie Boys Book- Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
6.  Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy, translated by The Maude Translation
7.  One #13
8.  New American Writing #22
9.  Aerodrome Orion And Starry Messenger- Susan Gevirtz
10.  Sulfur #19
11.  The X-Files Season 10 Vol 3- Joe Harris, Dave Smith
12.  A Tonalist- Laura Moriarty
13.  Nakedness Is My End: Poems From The Greek Anthology- translated by Edmund Keeley
14.  INTI- Brian Bina
15.  In Love With Art: Francoise Mouly's Adventures In Comics With Art Spielgelman- Jeet Heer
16.  Museum Of Thrown Objects- Andrew K. Peterson
17.  One #15
18.  30 Days Of Night: Eben And Stella- Steve Niles, Sue Deconnick, Justin Randall
19.  30 Days Of Night: Three Tales- Steve Niles, Nat James, Ben Templesmith, Milx
20.  Kick-Ass- Mark Millar, John Tomita Jr. 
21.  Western Palaces- Logan Ryan Smith
22.  Sulfur #23
23.  Habibi- Craig Thompson
24.  Promethea: Book Two- Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III
25.  ... (Ellipsis)- Alaistar Johnston
26.  The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy- Douglas Adams
27.  One #16
28.  Coeur De Lion- Ariana Reines
29.  Denny Smith- Robert Gluck
30.  The Punisher Max Vol One- Garth Ennis, Derick Robertson, Lewis LaRosa, Leandro Fernandez
31.  Iovis- Anne Waldman
32.  Reciprocal Distillations- Clayton Eshleman
33.  Mercury- Ariana Reines
34.  The X-Files: Ruins- Kevin J. Anderson
35. Discourse 20.1 and 2
36.  Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: The History Of The Disc Jockey- Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton
37.  Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Interviews On Sleeping With The Dictionary And Other Works- Barbara Henning, Harryette Mullen
38.  One #10
39.  The Book Of The Law- Aleister Crowley
40.  Nemo: Heart Of Ice- Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill
41.  On The Shining Screen Of The Eyelids- Josely Vianna Baptista, Francisco Faria, translated by Chris Daniels
42.  The Mayor Of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy
43.  Old Growth: Selected Poems And Notebooks 1986-1994- Andrew Schelling
44.  Nemo: The Roses Of Berlin- Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill
45.  Toy Fables- Cass McCombs
46.  Sulfur #31
47.  Bloomsbury Pie: The Making Of The Bloomsbury Boom- Regina Marler
48.  Loverboys- Gilbert Hernandez
49.  and now, a vineyard- Andrew K. Peterson
50.  Mum Halo- John Coletti
51.  Liber Null And Psychonaut- Peter J. Carroll
52.  Moving Day- Ish Klein
53.  Testamentality, Transcryption: An Emotional Memoir Of Jack Spicer- Larry Kearney
54.  Aleister Crowley: The Nature Of The Beast- Colin Wilson
55.  American Mischief- Alan Lelchuk
56.  Skitch #5
57.  Holy Daimon- Frater Archer
58.  Rob The Plagerist- Robert Fitterman

hello, I have a new book out on Roof called Mirror Magic, 

if you're so inclined you can order a copy from SPD or Amazon

if you'd like to REVIEW the book please email me at john.sakkis@gmail.com and I'll get you a copy,

John Sakkis’ Mirror Magic offers us the riotous in the fullest sense of the word: rife with quick-wit and biting humor, these pages also riot against an ever-crumbling present as it dissolves a future teetering on the cusp of fantastical and apocalyptic; “I tic toc my minutes / NIMBY pansies get butterflies / ‘shadow pollution’ kills birds / so rents go up and over /you laugh at the needles /that stick to your meddling.”\” Bounding through space in Nike shoes, the tragi-comedy of the neoliberal state escalates as “ambition gets complicated” and muddies our horizons. Through Sakkis’ verses we live in a dynamic zone “floating and falling / and floating” in the overlapping absurdity and truth where still he leisurely and militantly demands more. From Vegas, to Californian ecosystems, to UFOs, the moon and beyond, the blossoming of childhood magic collides with adulthood’s brutal realism, daring to hone our critical apparatus and dream harder.

and from the backcover of the book:

"Irresistible and ebullient as your Saturday plans look midweek, John Sakkis’ Mirror Magic is a reflective and necromantic gathering that gives back what it asks of a day lived both online and off the wall: “please leave/this sweet light/and render me/phosphorescent tubeway splatter genome.” Sakkis’ spunky challenge to the popular poetics of our time (stuffed armor or ardor) make me wonder what Cocteau might be up to in the 21st Century; maybe directing straight-to-VHS skater videos, scanning the Bay’s convex parking bumpers for the myth of the perfect ollie. “’The millennium’ is a confusing term/and you are a headless oracle mumbling/‘this generation shall not pass/directly or indirectly/into the abyss’.” With grime and pop and savvy, these poems’ tricks grind along the silver internet’s omnipresences, a gleaming cube of instruction and wise-assed possibility. Enter here, into Sakkis’ “kinky time warp,” a humid mirror where humor and found magic are the blades for the body to open through.

–Andrew Peterson

Mirror Magic’s poems live simultaneously in uncomfortable realities and joy, gathering snippets of experience as if they were wildflower bouquets for detonating in language like miniature fireworks. Violence and violence collide. Violence and exaltation collide. Sometimes you get burned. Sometimes you get to take a bath. This bad boy is full of life.
–Eleni Sikelianos"