Books Read 2016

1.    William Blake: His Life- James King
2.    The Velveteen Rabbit- Margery Williams, William Nicholson
3.    Names Of People- Robert Duncan, Jess
4.    Saga Volume Four- Brian K. Vaughn, Fiona Staples
5.    We3- Grant Morrison, Frank Quietly
6.    Don’t Know Much About History: Everything You Need To Know About American History But Never Learned- Kenneth C. Davis
7.    Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life Of Alan Moore- Lance Parkin
8.    Paying for It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being A John- Chester Brown
9.    Ronin- Frank Miller
10.    Boxers- Gene Luen Yang
11.    Robert Duncan: The Ambassador From Venus- Lisa Jarnot
12.    30 Days Of Night- Steve Niles, Ben Temple Smith
13.    30 Days Of Night: Dark Days- Steve Niles, Ben Temple Smith
14.    30 Days Of Night: Return To Barrow- Steve Niles, Ben Temple Smith
15.    Saints- Gene Luen Yang
16.    I Never Liked You- Chester Brown
17.    Bumperhead- Gilbert Hernandez
18.    An Opening Of The Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, And Their Circle- Michael Duncan, Christopher Wagstagg
19.    Sixty Morning Talks- Andy Fitch
20.    Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin- Gray Brechin
21.    Sin City: The Big Fat Kill- Frank Miller
22.    Squat- Sarah Menefee
23.    Vow To Poetry- Anne Waldman
24.    Props Of Rain/ Drops Of Wine- Patrick James Dunagan
25.    The Roots Of Coincidence: An Excursion Into Parapsychology- Arthur Koestler
26.    Lazio- Brandon Downing
27.    Crossing Paths- Diana Achegma, Hugo Garcia Marriquez, Nicole Trigg
28.    Discrete Series- George Oppen
29.    Acts #10: In Relation
30.    A Secret Location On The Lower East Side: Adventures In Writing 1960-1980- Steven Clay, Rodney Phillips
31.    Sin City: That Yellow Bastard- Frank Miller
32.    At Passages- Michael Palmer
33.    Old Father, Old Artificer: Charles Olson Memorial Lecture- Diane Di Prima
34.    Further Confessions Of A Small Press Racketeer- Stuart Ross
35.    Helen In Egypt- H.D.
36.    Charles Olson Memorial Lectures- Edward Dorn
37.    Unfinished Business- Michelangelo Antonioni
38.    Out Of Print- Julien Poirier
39.    Digging Up Mother: A Love Story- Doug Stanhope
40.    Hermeticities And Others- Derek Fenner
41.    SFAQ VOL. 2 #5
42.    Lost And Found: The Selected Correspondence Of John Wieners And Charles Olson Part I and II
43.    A Question Mark Above The Sun- Kent Johnson
44.    Slats- Nicole Trigg
45.    Portrait Of A Lesser Subject- E. Tracy Grinnell
46.    Pain: The Board Game- Sampson Startweather
47.    The Truth Is We Are Perfect- Janaka Stucky
48.    From Bughouse Square To The Beat Generation: Selected Ravings Of Slim Brundage Founder And Janitor Of The College Of Complexes- edited by Franklin Rosemont
49.    The Book Of Jon- Eleni Sikelianos
50.    Sin City: Family Values- Frank Miller
51.    Beggars Of Life- Andrew Maxwell, N Gelund
52.    Asterios Polyp- David Mazzucchelli
53.    Tea Shack Interior: New And Selected Poetry- Andrew Schelling
54.    Annoying Diabetic Bitch- Sharon Mesmer
55.    Black Mountain Days- Michael Rumaker
56.    The Sandman: Overture- Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III, Dave Steward
57.    Saga Volume 5- Brian K. Vaughn, Fiona Staples
58.    What We Do- Michael Gottlieb
59.    Sex Criminals Volume Three- Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky
60.    A Yellow Leaf- Julien Poirier
61.    You (And What Army)- Julien Poirier
62.    Witch Dialogue- Monica Redden
63.    V For Vendetta- Alan Moore, David Lloyd
64.    7213- Sue Sod
65.    Temblor #10
66.    Bladezine #1
67.    Lipstick Eleven #1
68.    Stirrings In The Jug: Black Politics In The Post Segregation Era- Adolph Reed Jr.
69.    The World Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos From Bookworms Worldwide- Eva Talmadge, Justin Taylor
70.    Cosmetology: A Manifesto- Micah Ballard
71.    Among The Thugs- Bill Buford
72.    A Poet’s Mind: Collected Interviews With Robert Duncan, 1960-1985- edited Christopher Wagstagg
73.    The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier- Alan Moore, Kevin O’neill
74.    More Important Than The Object- Dodie Bellamy
75.    The Return Of Quetzalcoatl- Julien Poirier
76.    Sin City: Booze, Broads, And Bullets- Frank Miller
77.    Info Ration- Stan Apps
78.    Patience- Daniel Clowes
79.    Cross-Section: An Anthology Of Contemporary Greek Poetry- edited Jack Hirschman, Dinos Siotis
80.    Hotel ABC- Susan Gevirtz
81.    Dick Of The Dead- Rachel Loden
82.    Providence- Alan moore, Jacen  Burrows
83.    I, afterlife: Essay In Mourning Time- Kristin Prevallet

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Books Read 2015

1. A Band Of Misfits: Tales Of The 2010 San Francisco Giants- Andrew Baggarly
2. Sin City: A Dame To Kill- Frank Miller
3. All This Everyday- Joanne Kyger
4. Necro Files: Two Decades Of Extreme Horror- edited by Cheryl Mullenax
5. Locke And Key Volume 1: Welcome To Lovecraft- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez
6. Etruscan Reader VI- Robin Blaser, Barbara Guest, Lee Harwood
7. Locke And Key Volume 2: Head Games- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez
8. The Habits Of Highly Deceptive Media: Decoding Spin And Lies In Mainstream Media- Norman Soloman
9. Demo To Ink- Ron Silliman
10. Where Eagles Dare- Polly Duff Bresnick, Evan Kennedy, Kevin Killian, Janey Smith
11. The X-Files Season 10 Volume 1- Joe Harris, Chris Carter, Michael Walsh
12. Where Eagles Dare- The East Bay Poetry Summit Lavender Issue 2013
13. Values Chauffeur You- Andrew Levy
14. After-Cave- Michelle Detorie
15. Civil Disobediences: Poetics And Politics In Action- edited by Anne Waldman and Lisa Birman
16. Post-Avant- Daniel Zimmerman
17. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 1- Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil
18. Locke And Key Volume 3: Crown Of Shadows- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez
19. Locke And Key Volume 4: Keys To The Kingdom- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez
20. Collected Works- Lorine Niedecker, edited by Jenny Penberthy
21. San Francisco's Burning: A Ballad Opera- Helen Adam
22. To The Secret- Franck Andre Jamme, translated by Norma Cole
23. The Louder The Room The Darker The Screen- Paul Ebenkamp
24. Under That Silky Roof- Elizabeth Robinson
25. Journal Of A Novel: The East Of Eden Letters- John Steinbeck
26. Locke And Key Volume 5: Clockworks- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez
27. Temblor #9
28. Das Gedichtete (or un theme et variations poetique)- Patrick James Dunagan
29. The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics And Community At Mid-century- Michael Davidson
30. Elderly #2
31. Sea Ranch- Winter 2012- Elaine Kahn, Elizabeth Robinson
32. In The House Un-American- Benjamin Hollander
33. The House By The Sea: A Portrait Of The Holocaust In Greece- Rebecca Camhi Fromer
34. Absurd Good News- Julien Poirier
35. I Am A Furious Little Bee- Aida Merini, translated by Carla Billitteri
36. The Invisibles Book One- Grant Morrison
37. Under The Sun- Rachel Levitsky
38. Local News- Jason Morris
39. Your Thoughts Are Real- Tinker Green
40. Demon Miso Fashion In Child- Joseph Mosconi
41. Abraham Lincoln #8
42. Dreamboat #7
43. Houdini- Joseph Mosconi
44. The X-Files Season 10 Volume 2- Joe Harris
45. What Surrealism Means To Me- Garrett Caples
46. The Straithes Of Nonvermont- Michael Slosek
47. Gates Of Fire- Steven Pressfield
48. The Invisibles: Apocalipstick- Grant Morrison
49. Way Too West- Julien Poirier
50. The Phare Of Gravelines- Eric Unger
51. The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text To Cultural Poetics- Barrett Watten
52. Acts + Encounters
53. The Invisibles: Entropy In The U.K.- Grant Morrison
54. Sex Criminals Volume 2: Two Worlds, One Cop- Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky
55. The Death-Ray- Daniel Clowes
56. Case Sensitive- Kate Greenstreet
57. Iron John: A Book About Men- Robert Bly
58. Morning Constitutional- Michael Magee
59. Earliest Worlds- Eleni Sikelianos
60. New Yipes Reader #17- edited by Armand F. Capanna, Dodie Bellamy
61. The Declaration Of Independence And The Constitution Of The United States
62. Robert Duncan: Selected Poems- Robert Duncan
63. Land- CJ Martin (Crux 1)
64. The Shirt Weapon- Brandon Downing
65. Eyewitness: From Black Mountain To White Rabbit- Carolyn Dunn interviewed by Kevin Killian
66. The Selected Letters Of Pauline Kael And Robert Duncan 1945-1946- Part 1 and Part II
67. PPL IN A Depot- Gary Sullivan
68. Saga Of The Swamp Thing Volume 1- Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Tutleben
69. Adventures Beyond The Body: How To Experience Out-Of-Body Travel- William Buhlman
70. Take The Rich Off Welfare- Mark Zepezauer, Arthur Naiman
71. Doubled Flowering: From The Notebooks Of Araki Yasusada- Araki Yasusada, translated by Josa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga, Okura Kyojin
72. Women In Public- Elaine Kahn
73. Uploading Nature- Stephen Boyer
74. Cyborg Legs- Steve Orth
75. On My Way- Eileen Myles
76. Folly- Nada Gordon
77. Bats Of The Republic- Zachary Thomas Dodson
78. The Balcony- Jean Genet
79. New American Writing # 33
80. Wytches Volume 1- Scott Snyder, Jock
81. The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel: Second Floor- edited by Reb Livingston, Molly Arden
82. Swamp Thing Volume 2: Love And Death- Alan Moore
83. When The Sick Rule The World- Dodie Bellamy
84. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art- Scott McCloud
85. Action Kylie- Kevin Killian
86. Hanging Loose #105

I helped translate this new anthology,

Cross-Section: An Anthology Of Contemporary Greek Poetry
edited by Jack Hirschman and Dinos Siotis

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Nightboat Books In The Bay

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interviewed in The Conversant

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