Top Shelf

Following Zach Schomburg’s lead, I decided to post the contents of my top shelf here. This is actually only one of six “top shelves” in my home. It’s located about ten feet behind me in my office.



From left to right: Blankets, Craig Thomspson (graphic novel); Epoch 52(3) (Ammons Special Issue); Fulcrum 2; City Poet, Brad Gooch; Paris Review 154 (The Poetry Issue); A Poet’s Bible, David Rosenberg; The Collected Books of Jack Spicer; Making Your Own Days, Kenneth Koch; Alfred and Guinevere; James Schuyler; Genesis 1-11, J. Rogerson; Introduction to Derrida, Collins & Mayblin (a sort of “dummies” approach to deconstruction); Sun Out, Kenneth Koch; In the Beginning, Karen Armstrong; Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban; Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters, Marjorie Perloff; The Day Reagan Died, Chris Martin (chapbook); Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review 9(1); Timberline 1999; And the Stars Were Shining, John Ashbery; The Latest Winter, Maggie Nelson; Worth, Robyn Schiff; Macular Hole, Catherine Wagner; The Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook; Confessions of a Crap Artist, Philip K. Dick; Days & Nights, Kenneth Koch; Nude Siren, Peter Richards; Morning Constitutional, Michael Magee; American Sonnets, Gerald Stern; Eight American Poets, ed. Joe Connaroe; All of Us, Raymond Carver; Negative Blue, Charles Wright; The Strength of Poetry, James Fenton; The Crystal Text, Clark Coolidge.

In front: Stack 1: The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook; Skein #2; Houseboat Days, John Ashbery; Axel’s Castle, Edmund Wilson; The Concept of Modernism, Astradur Eyssteinson

Stack 2: Isn’t it Romantic, eds. Brett Fletcher Lauer & Aimee Kelley; Lungfull! 10; Innocence, Tim Botta; The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara; Selected Poems, Kenneth Koch.