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POPULAR & RECOMMENDED BOOKS FOR CLASSES
| Intro to Poetry |
Sincerest Flatteries: A Little Book of Imitations by Kurt Brown (2007)
Drive: The First Quartet by Lorna Dee Cervantes (2006)
Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book by Stacey Doris (2006)
Concordance by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (2006)
Flowering Bruno: A Dography by Charlene Fix (2006)
Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown: Where Some Things Got Broken by Fanny Howe (2006)
Mona Poetica: A Poetry Anthology Edited by Diane Shipley DeCillis, Mary Jo Gillett (2005)
After You, Dearest Language by Marisol Limon Martinez (2005)
Radi Os by Ronald Johnson (2005)
Pastorelles by John Taggart (2004)
Isn't it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets
Edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer & Aimee Kelley (2004)
The Temperature of this Water by Ishle Yi Park (2004)
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Edited by Mark Eisner (2004)
Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics by Brian Kim Stefans (2003)
A Handmade Museum by Brenda Coultas (2003)
My Life by Lyn Hejinian (2002)
The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker Edited by Cid Corman (1996)
First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie (1993)
The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie (1992)
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1959)
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| Anthologies |
Radical Acts: Theater and Feminist Pedagogies of Change Edited by A. Armstrong & K Juhl (2007)
For The Time Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals Edited by Tyler, Tom & Morgan Doherty (2007)
Bay Poetics Edited by Stephanie Young (2006)
Encyclopedia Volume 1, A-E Edited by Bryant, Mellis and Schatz (2006)
Please Stay on the Trail: A Collection of Colorado Fiction Edited by Matt Hudson (2006)
Paraspheres Edited by Ken Keegan and Rusty Morrison (2005)
Mona Poetica: A Poetry Anthology Edited by Diane Shipley DeCillis, Mary Jo Gillett (2005)
Voices in Wartime: Anthology Edited by Andrew Himes (2005)
War and Peace 2 Edited by Judith Goldman & Leslie Scalapino (2005)
EDA: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry Edited by Murat Nemet-Nejat (2005)
The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers Edited by Hogeland and Klages (2004)
War and Peace Edited by Leslie Scalapino (2004)
3 Vietnamese Poets Translated by Linh Dinh (2003)
Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region (2003)
An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry Edited by Nanos Valaoritis and Thanasis Maskaleris (2003)
In the American Tree Edited by Ron Silliman (1986)
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| African American Studies & African Diaspora |
POETRY
Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan by June Jordan (2007)
City Eclogue by Ed Roberson (2006)
Hands Washing Water by Chris Abani (2006)
Gravity, U.S.A. by Jaqueline Jones LaMon (2006)
Leadbelly by Tyehimba Jess (2005)
A Picture-Feeling by Renee Gladman (2005)
Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems by Amiri Baraka (2003)
C.C. by Tyrone Williams (2002)
Jazz Fan Looks Back by Jayne Cortez (2002)
conVERSations (1999) by Kamau Braithwaite and Nathaniel Mackey
Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems by Bob Kaufman (1996)
FICTION
Dog War by Anthony Winkler (2007)
John Crow's Devil by Maron James (2005)
The Activist by Renee Gladman (2003)
NONFICTION
Brother to Brother Edited by Essex Hemphill (2007)
R&B: Rhythm and Business: The Political Economy of Black Music by Norman Kelley, ed. (2005)
Conversations II: Western Education and the Caribbean Intellectual
by George Lamming (2000)
A History of Pan-African Revolt by CLR James (1995)
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| Latino / Latina Studies |
POETRY
Poemas Callejeros/ Streetwise Poems by Joanny Vasquez Paz (2007)
Talk Shows by Monica de la Torre (2007)
Exiliana by Mariela Griffor (2007)
Americano by Tedi Lopez Miller (2005)
Homesick for Death: Dead Nocturnes by Xavier Villaurrutia (2005)
To Leveling Swerve by Rodrigo Toscano (2005)
While Light Is Built by Emanuel Xavier (2005)
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda (2004)
The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body by Alberto Rios (2002)
FICTION
Stories From El Barrio by Thomas Piri (2007)
Tango For A Torturer by Daniel Chavarria (2007)
Face by Cecile Pineda (2003)
Trino's Choice by Diane Gonzalez Betrand (1999)
NONFICTION
The Price of Fire by Benjamin Dangl (2007)
Borderlands/ La Frontera, Third Edition: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa (2007)
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child by Elva Trevino Hart (1999)
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| Asian American Studies & Asian Diaspora |
POETRY
Haiku Master Buson by Buson (2007)
So Translating Rivers and Cities by Zhang Er (2007)
Sightings: Selected Works [2000-2005] by Shin Yu Pai (2007)
Borderless Bodies by Linh Dinh (2006)
Incubation: A Space for Monsters by Bhanu Kapil (2006)
60 Lv Bo(e)mbs by Paolo Javier (2005)
In the Absent Everyday by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (2005)
Ing Grish by John Yau (2005)
Poeta En San Francisco by Barbara Jane Reyes (2005)
Distracted Geographies An Archipelago of Intent by Sudeep Sen (2003)
Rules of the House by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (2002)
Translating Mo'Um by Cathy Park Hong (2002)
Bliss To Fill by Prageeta Sharma (2000)
FICTION
The Last Communist Virgin by Wang Ping (2007)
The Ocean in the Closet by Yuko Taniguchi (2007)
They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel (2005)
Going Home To A Landscape: Writings by Filipinas
by Villaneva & Cerenio, Eds. (2003)
Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada by Araki Yasusada (1997)
NONFICTION
A Basic Mencius by Mencius (2007)
The Yang-Yin Journal: A Critique of the Social Ego by R.C. Allen (2007)
Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment
Edited by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu (2001)
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| Women's Studies |
Like Sonby Felicia Luna Lemus (2007)
Radical Acts: Theater and Feminist Pedagogies of Change Edited by A. Armstrong & K Juhl (2007)
Parts That Were Once Wholeby Nancy Bokin (2007)
Cyberfeminism: Next Protocols Edited by Claudia Reiche and Verena Kuni (2005)
Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici (2004)
Exporting Extremism: How Anti-Choice Policies Threaten Women's Lives Around the World
by Gloria Feldt (2004)
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein (2004)
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| Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies |
POETRY
The Human Lineby Ellen Bass (2007)
You Go The Wordsby Gunnar Bjorling (2007)
Obedience by kari edwards (2005)
The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Liebegott (2005)
Prime Time Apparitions by R. Zamora Linmark (2005)
The Beautiful by Michelle Tea (2004)
Lake Systems by Cynthia Sailers (2004)
Brief Capital of Disturbances by George Albon (2003)
Iduna by kari edwards (2003)
Letters: Poems 1953-56 by Robert Duncan (2003 Reprint)
I Remember by Joe Brainard (2001 Reprint)
Argento Series by Kevin Killian (2001)
FICTION
The Last Time I Saw You by Rebecca Brown (2006)
My Walk with Bob by Bruce Boone (2006)
Everything I Have Is Blue:
Short Fiction by Working Class Men About More-Or-Less Gay Life
by Wendell Ricketts, Ed. (2005)
Phallos by Samuel Delany (2004)
Denny Smith (Stories) by Robert Gluck (2003)
NONFICTION
Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States by Terence Kissack (2007)
In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology Edited by Joseph Beam (2007)
Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard by Ron Padgett (2004)
Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About by Carla Trujillo, ed (1991)
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| Native American Studies |
POETRY
Another Attempt At Rescue by M.L. Smoker (2005)
Ndakinna: Our Land by Joseph Bruchac (2005)
Selected Writings: Second Edition by Cedar Sigo (2005)
Ghosts by Albert Ayler, Ghosts by Albert Ayler by Merry Fortune (2004)
One Stick Song by Sherman Alexie (2000)
FICTION
Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers
by Dunn & Comfort, Eds. (1999)
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| Contemporary Fiction |
The Revisionist by Miranda Mellis (2007)
Flet: A Novel by Joyelle McSweeney (2007)
My Walk with Bob by Bruce Boone (2006)
Miss Lamp by Chris Ewart (2005)
10:01 by Lance Olsen (2005)
Frances Johnson by Stacey Levine (2005)
Hangings: Three Novellas by Nina Shope (2005)
The Tilt by Robin Romm (2005)
Yesterday, At the Hotel Clarendon by Nicole Brossard (2005)
Motorman by David Ohle (2004)
White Pigeons by Chris Leo (2004)
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| Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies, Arab American Studies |
Avicenna and I by Manoucher Parvin (2007)
Now, As You Awaken by Darwish, Mahmoud (2007)
Passing Over by Norman Finkelstein (2007)
The Arab Apocalypse by Etel Adnan (2006)
So What: New and Selected Poems 1973-2005 by Taha Muhammad Ali (2006)
Little Promises by Rachel Eshed (2006)
Rituals of Truce and the Other Israeli by Benjamin Hollander (2004)
From the Warring Factions by Ammiel Alcalay (2002)
The Fullness of Time by Gershom Scholem (2002)
Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn 'Arabi and Other Poems
by Ibn 'Arabi, Trans. Michael Sells (2000)
Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story by Taha Muhammad Ali (2000)
Breathturn [Antemwende] by Paul Celan (1995)
Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan (1982)
Letters to a Buddhist Jew by David Gottlieb and Akiva Tatz (1982)
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| Contemporary European Literature |
The Bottle at Sea: The Complete Poemsby Maurice Gilliams (2007)
The Drug of Art: Selected Poemsby Ivan Blatny (2007)
You Go The Wordsby Gunnar Bjorling (2007)
Autumn in Peking by Boris Vian (2005)
Chinese Sun by Arkadii Dragomoschenko (2005)
Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg Translated by Johannes Goransson (2005)
Twelve Nights by Gerlind Reinshagen (2005)
The Will to Sickness by Gerhard Roth (2005)
Hermine: An Animal Life by Maria Berg (2004)
Catalogue of Comedic Novelties by Lev Rubinstein (2004)
Notebooks 1956-1978 by Danielle Collobert (2003)
Poker by Tomaz Salamun (2003)
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| Politics & Resistance |
The Baghdad Blues by Sinan Antoon (2007)
Mars Being Red by Marvin Bell (2007)
Bush-League Spectacles: Empire, Politics, and Culture in Bushwhacked America
by Fran Shor (2005)
Candy From Strangers: Kids and Consumer Culture by Stephen Dale (2005)
The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin (2005)
Freedom in Education by Elizabeth Byrne (2005)
Literature Is Freedom by Susan Sontag (2004)
Revolutionary Integration: A Marxist Analysis of African American Liberation
by Richard Fraser and Tom Boot (2004)
To Mend the World Edited by Marjorie Agosin and Betty Jean Craige (2002)
Consensus or Cohercion? by Lawrence Black, et al.(2001)
Globalize This! The Battle Against The World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule
by Danaher, Kevin and Burbach, Roger, Eds. (2000)
The Autobiography of Mother Jones by Mother Jones (1996)
A History of Pan-African Revolt by C.L.R. James (1995)
Situationist International Anthology Edited by Ken Knabb (1981, Fifth Printing 1995)
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| Art, Architecture & Book Arts |
Ululu (Clown Shrapnel) by Thalia Field (2007)
The States by Craig Foltz (2007)
Chop Shop by Stephanie Taylor (2007)
From Now by Johanna Drucker (2006)
No Longer Innocent: Book Art In America 1960-1980 by Betty Bright (2005)
Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
by Lisa Robertson (2003)
Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art by Suzanne Lacy, Editor (1995)
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