My 2016 in Reading

What I read and a few things I wrote.

 I had a few poems published in 2016:

• Noble/Gas Quarterly
• Painted Bride Quarterly
• Structo
• Sundog Lit

Thank you to the editors for seeing value in my work.

Immense thanks also to LitHub who published my essay "The Poetry of the War on Terror" in July. The essay explores deadfalls and snares by Samantha Giles, Sand Opera by Philip Metres, and Look by Solmaz Sharif and the way that all three de/reconstruct the language of the so-called War on Terror.

The 105 books I read in 2016

In 2016 I read more books in a year than I ever have. Below is the list in the order I read them. As with last year's list, the entries in bold are the ones that have stuck with me the most. I've also noted books I had read before.
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1. Greensward by Cole Swensen
2. Such Rich Hour by Cole Swensen
3. Landscapes on a Train by Cole Swensen
4. Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones
5. Earliest Worlds by Eleni Sikelianos
6. Collected Poems by Pavel Büchler
7. Netsuke by Rikki Ducornet
8. Veil: New and Selected Poems by Rae Armantrout
9. Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen by Garth Nix
10. The Same-Different by Hannah Sanghee Park
11. Next Life by Rae Armantrout
12. Deepstep Come Shining by C.D. Wright (reread)
13. One Big Self by C.D. Wright (reread)
14. Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (reread)
15. Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil
16. Greed by Ai
17. The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)
18. Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
19. Sentences and Rain by Elaine Equi
20. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
21. New Exercuses by Franck André Jamme (translated by Charles Borkhuis)
22. Margaret and Dusty by Alice Notley
23. Angle of Yaw by Ben Lerner
24. Minimum Soft Exchange by Luke Allan
25. Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox
26. Mean Free Path by Ben Lerner
27. Songs from a Mountain by Amanda Nadelberg
28. The Road Beneath My Feet by Frank Turner
29. After by Fatimah Asghar
30. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
31. Sad Girl Poems by Christopher Soto aka Loma
32. Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
33. The Old Philosopher by Vi Khi Nao
34. They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This by Anna Moschovakis
35. Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
36. Streaming by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
37. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
38. Bright Brave Phenomena by Amanda Nadelberg
39. To Disembark by Gwendolyn Brooks (reread)
40. Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems by Pablo Neruda (translated by Forrest Gander)
41. Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda (translated by W.S. Merwin)
42. Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
43. House of Coates by Brad Zellar
44. Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss
45. The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan
46. An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec (translated by Marc Lowenthal)
47. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
48. Click and Clone by Elaine Equi
49. The Stick Soldiers by Hugh Martin
50. Necropastroals by Mary Austin Speaker
51. Sand Opera by Philip Metres
52. deadfalls and snares by Samantha Giles
53. Look by Solmaz Sharif
54. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
55. Dangerous Goods by Sean Hill
56. Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet
57. The Dig by Cynan Jones
58. Authority by Jeff Vandermeer
59. Selected Poems by Dara Wier
60. Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
61. Poem Without Suffering by Joseph Kaplan
62. Voice's Daughter of A Heart Yet to Be Born by Anne Waldman
63. Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
64. An Ethic by Christina Davis
65. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
66. Event Factory by Renee Gladman
67. Reverse Rapture by Dara Wier
68. I'll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell
69. Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
70. The Ravickians by Renee Gladman
71. Hurry Home Honey by Sawako Nakayasu
72. Camanchaca by Diego Zúñiga (translated by Megan McDowell)—forthcoming in March 2017
73. Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik
74. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
75. Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge by Renee Gladman
76. Null Set by Ted Mathys
77. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
78. Problems by Jade Sharma
79. Silvina Ocampo: Selected by Silvina Ocampo (translated by Jason Weiss)
80. The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
81. Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin
82. The Iceland by Sakutarō Hagiwara (translated by Hiroaki Sato)
83. Blindsight by Greg Hewett
84. Temple by Kristen Case
85. The Romance of Happy Workers by Anne Boyer
86. Illocality by Joseph Massey (reread)
87. To Keep Time by Joseph Massey (partial reread)
88. So What So That by Marjorie Welish
89. Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)
90. The Long Dry by Cynan Jones—forthcoming in April 2017
91. At the Lightning Field by Laura Raicovich—forthcoming in April 2017
92. Calamities by Renee Gladman
93. Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik
94. Cat Town by Sakutarō Hagiwara (translated by Hiroaki Sato)
95. Buried Choirs by Katharine Rauk
96. Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
97. Fugitive, in Full View by Jack Marshall—forthcoming in June 2017
98. Beautiful Zero by Jennifer Willoughby
99. The Tennis Court Oath by John Ashbery
100. The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cardenas
101. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
102. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
103. Nick Demske by Nick Demske
104. League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
105. rue Wilson Monday by Anselm Hollo

What I'll be Reading in 2017

First of all, I'm slowing down my reading a little in 2017, to allow myself a bit more room to live with some books a little longer.

In addition to slowing down a little, I have a goal of reading books translated from at least twelve different languages. I have a few I'm planning to read, but I'd love your recommendations! Leave a comment below with a recommendation of a translated book, as well as the language it was written in.

Happy reading in 2017!

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