Recently Acquired

I have a Goodreads account, but I hardly ever use it. I just don't like the whole star rating thing, or the idea of ranking poetry texts in general. Top ten movie- or song-of-the-year lists and such are OK, or less hierarchical book lists like Steve Evans' Attention Span, but the notion of assigning quantitative values to every book in one's library seems obsessive. I mean, even too obsessive for me. So periodically I still like to use this space to report on the books and chapbooks I buy or am given. Eventually I may still enter them on Goodreads--I do have some of my library up there already, without ratings--but the blog provides a nice record of the general time I came by all the texts in question. I can't think of a real reason I would want such a record, but just in case.

So anyway:

BOOKS

Alan Davies, Rave (Roof Books, 1994).
Kenneth Goldsmith, Sports (Make Now Press, 2008).
Kenneth Goldsmith, Traffic (Make Now Press, 2007).
Lyn Hejinian, Saga/Circus (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008).
Eugene Ostashevsky, The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008).
Ron Padgett, The Big Something (The Figures, 1990).
Stephen Rodefer, Call It Thought: Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2008).
Ron Silliman, The Alphabet (University of Alabama Press, 2008).
Sandra Simonds, Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008).

CHAPBOOKS

Anselm Berrigan, Have a Good One (Cy Press, 2008).
Franklin Bruno, Policy Instrument (Lame House, 2008).
Sharon Mesmer, Vertigo Seeks Affinities (Belladonna #90, 2006).
Alice Notley, Phoebe Light (Big Sky Books, 1973).
Alice Notley, Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (United Artists, 1979).
Dana Ward, Goodnight Voice (House Press, 2008).
Elisabeth Workman (text) and Erik Brandt (images), opolis (tÿpøgrafika, 2007).

JOURNALS

Lana Turner 1 (2008).
Succour 8 (2008/09).
Work 11 (2008).
Work 12 (2008).