Not including the library books, I have a weighty tower of new titles that I got in April. Looking at all the ducks like that that, I’m thinking this couple dozen could take a while.
Geist [which I couldn’t find in Chapters and asked 3 clerks to get blank looks and assurances that they are sure they don’t carry that magazine. Then I found it myself under some non-literature section.], The Puritan Magazine, Unquiet Desperation (vol 1, issue 20, vol 2, issue 1 from when Warren Dean Fulton was reading in town.), Rampike [which Amanda reminded me was out there, delicious poems in this issue], The Malahat Review, Me Sexy (Douglas & McIntyre, 2008) by Drew Haydon Taylor, Hay West: A Story of Canadians Helping Canadians (Red Deer Press, 2004), The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry that inspires them (source books, 2008), The Dream of Snowy Owls (Longspoon press, 1983) by Monty Reid, Bird Tracks on Hard Snow (ECW, 1994) by Nelson Ball, Shoot & Weep (Nomados 2008) by Rachel Zolf, Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame by robin robertson, The Dream World (M&S, 2008) by Alison Pick, Floors of Enduring Beauty by Steve Venright (Mansfield Press, 2007), These Lawns (Red Deer Press, 1990) by Monty Reid, Les Scribbliste (Produce Press) by gustave morin, From the Monestery, (gesture press, 2006) by Nicholas Power, Spiral Agitator (Coach House, 2000) by Steve Venright, The Story of the Cannibal Woman by Maryse Condé (Washingston Square Press, 2005), Carnegie Pocket Companion, 1923, Engineers, Architects and Builders Tables, Steel, and the ones I already mentioned that also arrived in April: Out of Light (Kitchen Press, 2008), by Joseph Massey, Mornings Like This: Found Poems (Harper Collins, 1995) by Annie Dillard, and Subject (University of California Press 2005) by Laura Mullen.
I think that’s them all but they may have started to drift around the house.
Oh, appetite, get ready…
And I still want to reparse all the rest of my notes from the festival. And keep up the 3 poems a day. And start to edit the (somewhat meaningless number since it includes in pageage various copies of drafts of poems too) 60 pages of 75 new poems drafted in April so far. Dear me. Looks like May is well-spoken for already.