20 December 2019

the ten greatest books of 2019


greatest books of the year 2019

john wieners - selected poems
john wieners - cultural affairs in boston
the lives of the poems, three talks - joshua beckman
since when - bill berkson

a year from today - stacy szymaszek
a perfect vaccuum - ed. judah rubin
knowing knott: essays on an american poet - ed. steven huff
paul blackburn - journals
lucille clifton - poems
june jordan - new and selected
angela davis - essays and talks
michelle tea - poems

barry lyndon - stanley kubrick
richard savage - samuel johnson
total eclipse - dicaprio as rimbaud (the walking scenes mostly)
boswell’s life of johnson
negativity’s kiss - alice notley
langston hughes - selected
charles reznikoff - collected


joanne kyger - as ever
joel oppenheimer - at fifty
joel oppenheimer - open spaces
biotherm - frank o’hara

kevin killian - fascination
kevin killian - poet be like god (jack spicer bio)
paul blackburn - collected
paul blackburn - on in or about the premises
jack kerouac: a biography - tom clark
kb nemcosky - early exits
evening at the talk house - wallace shawn
a certain slant of sunlight - ted berrigan

full moon of paris - eric rohmer
satori in paris - jack kerouac

james baldwin - essay on getting arrested in paris

michael mcclure - jaguar skies
bob kaufman - cranial guitar
james laughlin - byways
san francisco poets - ed dave meltzer 
san francisco beat - ed dave meltzer
michael c ford & sw griffin at beyond baroque

gregory corso - poems
outlaw bible of american poetry - eds alan kaufman & sw griffin
reflections of my life as a woman - diane diprima
cedar sigo lecture on revolutionary poetry at cuny grad center
larry eigner - readiness/ enough/ depends/ on
gary snyder - poems
kenneth rexroth - classics revisited
kenneth rexroth - essays 
kenneth rexroth - the dragon and the unicorn
kenneth rexroth - poems

grand piano - rae armentrout, kit robinson, et al
mexico city blues - jack kerouac
david henderson - de mayor of harlem
songs of innocence, songs of experience album set by Allen Ginsberg

david henderson - neo-california
don’t touch the poet: the life and times of joel oppenheimer - lyman gilmore
straight around allen - bob rosenthal
michael mcclure - rare angel
robert lax - the hermit’s guide to home economics
lewis warsh - information from the surface of venus
bernadette mayer & lewis warsh - piece of cake
elio schneeman - along the rails

rommel drives deep into egypt - richard brautigan
the basketball diaries - jim carroll
forced entries: the downtown diaries 1971-1973 - jim carroll
bernadette mayer - the old style, poetry

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