BOTH BOTH: books read 2014

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Dec 30, 2014

92. Some Deer Left The Yard Moving Day- Andrew K. Peterson
BlazeVOX Books

I love this dude, my old roommate, Red Sox REPROBATE, what a dude! hella've poet, he made me realize that it was okay to not be into Elvis Costello, I remember he had girlfriends at Naropa, one of those guys! One time Andy printed out a cardboard copy of my face and wore it for Halloween, check him out! love that dude!

his book is really good, thanks for sending ANDY! he wrote me a nice inscription, let's see what it says

can you read it? here, it says

"To Johnny S.,
The AL East is a fat farm.
The AL East is a 3020 slobbering dog neighbor.
Your care packages are a dream
of Wade Bogg's Mustache
& you are a toast in this house of friends-
xoxo.
former roomie,
AKP"

GODDAMMN what a dude, LOVE you ANDY. I miss the 3020 debauch.

91. Batman: Arkham Asylum A Serious House On Serious Earth- Grant Morrison, Dave Mckean
DC Comics

Jesus Louise what a book! yeah, best Batman I've read, Dave McKean's art, fuuuuuugh...I didn't want this one to end, reread it 3 times before retiring it to the bookshelf, went out and bought all of Morrison's The Invisibles immediately after, can't wait to dig into those guys, I think Derek Fenner told me The Invisibles were the jam, have you seen Derek's OCCULT library? fuuuuuugh...

I'm listening to Van Morrison's Astral Weeks by the way, my Mom bought me some vinyl for Christmas! yeah yeah Mom!

90. The New Sentence- Ron Silliman
Roof Books

I really enjoyed this book, kind of surprised by my reaction to it, because like Robert Greiner "I HATE THEORY," shit, that's not what he said is it? I really do detest the poetics in practice of "the new sentence," I hate prosey poetry, even if it is LANGUAGE based, maybe more so, fucking giant blocks of giant paratactic long lines, gag me with a spoon! I've always really likes Silliman's books though, the dude has moxy! it's just what his style led to with less skilled poets that sinks the ship.

89. Coming Events (Collected Writing)- Susan Gevirtz
Nightboat Books

One of my books of the year, Susan is one my favorite people in the Bay Area, I cherish our friendship, I cherish this book.

88. The Fugitive Notebook- Laura Moriarty
Couch Press

I wrote a blurb for this book!

87. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban- J.K. Rowling
Scholastic Press

This is the third one, man these books are boring. My assistant at work really loves them though. She told me they play Quidditch in real life, that a human runs around as the Golden Snitch, I don't know man, seems pretty dorkasaurasrex.

Dec 6, 2014

86. Fright Catalog- Joseph Mosconi
Insert Blanc Press

this is my dude, as they say.

"HOT MAGICS

RED PLANETS

WHITE BOOM"

85. Vesper Chimes- Micah Ballard
Gas Meter

"M''seur Johnny-
Here's a little suitcase of poems
that just arrived. Absolutely
LOVELY & amazing to see
you the other eve at Fenner
& Bajo's. & to be in your
building, whereabouts, etc.
Stoked to get your new book
& to hang ASAP/USOP soon.
Sending ALL MY LOVE.
-Micah"

sending all my LOVE back Micah. I miss the San Francisco poetry scene.

84. Jack Of Diamonds And The Queen Of Spades- Jackson Meazle
Bird & Beckett

is it bad that I want to yell stuff into Twitter every time I visit? who am I yelling at? I know exactly who I'm yelling at. techno-parnoia, "I HATE TECHNOLOGY."

not my audience clearly. don't say audience.

currently listening to Language Lessons, Third Man Records.

83. The Fugitive Notebook- Laura Moriarty
Couch Press

I stayed home and watched Black Mirror last night.

techno-paranoia, yes. commingling and complicating yes yes. Black Mirror is our gross science fiction present.

Nov 29, 2014

82. Sin City: The Hard Goodbye- Frank Miller
Dark Horse Books

81. Meat Air Poems 1957-1969
Ron Loewinsohn

lot's of tender, masculine, heterosexy poems in this one, like this

Song

Like 2 apples in the tree,
green speckled skin. Bite
into that flesh—
sharp white coldness suddenly
filling your mouth

RIP Ron

80. The Coming Community- Giorgio Agamben, translated by Michael Hardt
University Of Minnesota Press

complete and total incomprehensible jibber jabber. though to be fair to Agamben maybe it's the translation? I was looking forward to reading this, mostly because of Robin Blaser's high praise, I ended up having to hate-read this book in two page increments for fear that I might get so frustrated I'd end up "accidentally" forgetting it on BART, and yeah I don't even use BART.

79. The Buddhist- Dodie Bellamy
Publication Studio

Easily one of my top reads of the year. Best read with a smartphone handy, I was looking up videos, books, buddhists, galleries, and restaurants right and left.