2009 book lists

Recently we emailed a number of writers who have read at the bookstore during the last year, are about to read at the store, or whose books we have featured this year. We asked them to list 5 books they have found wonderful/interesting/useful over the last year. We will list them here as they come in, so do please check back.

Debra Spark, novelist, Good For the Jews:

Dave Eggers - What is the What
Adrian Blevins - Live from the Homesick Jamboree
Michael Greenburg - Hurry Down Sunshine
Karen Shepard - Don't I Know You
David Shields - Reality Hunger


Clayton Eshleman, poet/translator - The Juniper Fuse:

Laura Solorzano - Lip Wolf
James Hillman - Animal Presence
Robert Kelly - Fire Exit
Novica Tadic - Assembly
Pierre Joris - Justifying the Margins


Karin Spitfire - poet - Standing With Trees:

Michael Harris - Lament for an Ocean
Carolyn Chute - The School at Heart's Content Road
Barbara Maria - Palace Boulevard
Ruth Moore - The Weir
Linda Hogan - People of the Whale


Bill Berkson, poet, Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems:

Curzio Malaparte - Kaputt
Aileen Ward - John Keats: The Making of a Poet
Morton Feldman - Words and Music, vols. 1 & 2 Musik Texte
Kenneth Koch - Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch
Isaiah Berlin - Russian Thinkers


Gary Lawless, Gulf of Maine Books co-owner:

Andrzej Stasiuk - Fado
Jonathan Skinner (editor) ecopoetics #6/7
Clayton Eshleman - The Juniper Fuse
Linda Hogan - People of the Whale
Ingrid Rowland - Giordano Bruno