Doubleday 2024
daydreaming w/ Bob Arnold
Collective Bargaining
On New Year's Eve we record wishes
on strips of paper, burn them, then
gulp down the ashes
chasing them with cheap
sweet champagne
Will those who survive
be us
or our shadows
beings transformed
altered?
If I come out of the ordeal
unharmed
I will burn each day
in a celebration
I'll be fearless and defiant
I promise
the higher power
trying, again, to take
a private exit
out of the common catastrophe —
typical of our species
Duck-Rabbit
a field, dry reeds
a patch of ice
like a blot of ink —
a child on the ground
bright red on white
her arms reaching out
shot dead or
making a snow angel?
Mother's Work
The remains
buried hastily
in the yard
recently ran about
with a shaggy dog
sewed a dress for a doll
bombed at Scrabble,
sang a lullaby
____________________________
STILL CITY
OKSANA MANSYMCHUK
University of Pittsburgh Press
2024
from Holy Winter 20 / 21
A stirring, ceaseless
Tickling
And scratching
Water on snow
Steam on water
Self on self
And dark, as the inside of a bucket
And like steamed-up glasses
Like in the brightest bath of snow
You are made double
You evaporate as you move
~
Wind. The blue of the mountains invisible
in the twilight, under winter stars
Our little house is covered in snow
I hear the dogs barking
By the village gates
Through snow and wind
Someone is coming home.
Foreign words melt in the cheek
Like sugar cubes.
____________________
Maria Stepanova
Holy Winter 20 / 21
translated by Sasha Dugdale
New Directions, 2024
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Doubleday, 2024
Every book by Barry is much
worth your late nights ~
you'll see this new novel ends
like a Leonard Cohen song
From the publisher:
For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping.
Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry humor and skillful storytelling. Readers are taken on a shopkeeping journey and will come to understand along the way that small shops characterize our towns and cities, making them unique, special and worth visiting and living near. This essay collection is for shop lovers everywhere and captures the art and heart of running a local shop treasured by the community that surrounds it. By the end, you can’t help wanting to own a shop.
PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
2024