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My 2016 in Reading

1/1/2017

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What I read and a few things I wrote.
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 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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    Timothy Otte

    is an art maker whose text has appeared in or is forthcoming from Denver Quarterly, LitHub, SAND Journal, the minnesota review, Sundog Lit, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Structo, and others. He was a 2014-15 Loft Mentor Series winner and is currently working on his first collection of poems. He is from and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he works at Coffee House Press. His tweets appear whenever. Say his last name like body.

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