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Siren
Below are the “votes” of five contributors (Dorianne Laux, David Hernandez, Bruce Covey, Jason Fraley, and Kiki Petrosino) and the editor. No guidelines were set (such as how “new” should be defined or how many suggestions should be made) except that neither Siren, nor either editor, should be included in any recommendation. The books below that are listed without links can all be found at www.amazon.com (or www.powells.com , www.alibris.com , etc.). If I could not yet find a book at Amazon, links are provided to sites where you can either find more information about, or in most cases purchase, the book. Thank you to the contributors who, during a very busy time of year and academic calendar, took time to share such well-informed choices.
Recommendations with the most mentions:
Jenny Boully, [onelove affair] (2 mentions) Matt Hart, Who’s Who Vivid (2 mentions) Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2 mentions)
Bruce Covey (poet, issue two):
(Editor’s Note: Bruce, an incredible reader, as well as poet and editor, who probably reads more books in one month than I seem to be able to in one year, in addition to these books, noted, charmingly, “Well, uh, Bruce Covey, Elapsing Speedway Organism.” He also noted that nothing is listed in any particular order.)
Books published in 2006:
PF Potvin, Attention Lesson Maureen Owen, Erosion's Pull E. Tracy Grinnell, Some Clear Souvenir Peter Davis, Hitler's Mustache Tao Lin, You are a little bit happier than I am Sandy Florian, Telescope Anselm Berrigan, Some Notes on My Programming Gloria Frym, Solution Simulacra Elizabeth Treadwell, Cornstarch Figurine Katie Degentesh, The Anger Scale Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, I Love Artists Alice Notley, Grave of Light Alice Notley, Alma or the Dead Women Robert Creeley, Collected Poems Lisa Lubasch, 21 After Days Kate Greenstreet, Case Sensitive Anna Moschovakis, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone Jenny Boully, [one love affair] Carly Sachs, The Steam Sequence Alex Lemon, Mosquito Reb Livingston and Molly Arden, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel Dan Bouchard, The Filaments The Filaments Aaron McCullough, Little Ease http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/mccollough2/mccollough2.htm Shin Yu Pai, Sightings http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=0978141407 K. Silem Mohammad, Monsters http://lime-tree.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html Amy King, On the Fly http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=103268170
New Journals and Magazines of 2006 (Literary and/or Art):
Glitter Pony, Alice Blue, Melancholia’s Tremulous Dreadlocks, Cannibal, Locus Point, Cabinet, Otoliths, ActionYes, Hot Whiskey, Wildlife Poetry
New Poets of 2006: (not including new poets who have not yet published a book)
Natalie Lyalin, Jen Tynes, Theresa Sotto, Kristi Maxwell, Michael Rerick, Ashley VanDoorn, Matt Henriksen, Julie Doxsee, Sandra Simonds, Heather Brinkman, Jon Leon, Sandy Florian, Tao Lin
Jason Fraley (poet, issue three):
“Two of the best books published in 2006 have to be Ben Lerner's The Angle of Yaw and Matt Hart's Who's Who Vivid. And I'm consistently impressed by the quality of work published in [the literary magazine] The Canary.”
David Hernandez (poet, issue one):
Novel:
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (http://www.poetrysociety.org/cgi-bin/psa-com/frame.cgi?address=1135023113)
Literary Magazine:
Field
Dorianne Laux (poet, issue two):
Books published in
2006:
Kiki Petrosino (poet, issue two):
Best Book of Poetry:
Best New Poets 2006 (University of Virginia Press)
Sara Kearns (editor):
Best New Books (Published in 2006):
Poetry: Joshua Beckman, Shake Matt Hart, Who’s Who Vivid Richard Siken, Crush
Prose & Poetry: Jenny Boully, [one love affair]
Prose (Fiction and Nonfiction): Irene Némirovsky, Suite Française Cormac McCarthy, The Road Paul Rusesabagina, An Ordinary Man Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Prose & Art: Frank Warren, My Secret: A PostSecret Book
Best New Poets: (Poets who have not yet had a book published, and of whom I had not read or heard before 2006. So some of my favorites who are generally still considered to be “new” or “emerging” poets, such as Robyn Art, are not included.)
Gabriella Klein, Jehanne Dubrow, Erin Martin, Cait Rappel, Kiki Petrosino
Best Emerging (Visual) Artists:
Marcela L., Mel Kadel, Scott Odom, Katia Fuentes
Best Poetry Blogs & Websites:
Sarah Sloat, Laurel K. Dodge, Scott Odom, Daniel Nester, Jenni Russell, Amy King
Special Mentions:
Dancing Girl Press, Selby’s List; Carolyn Creedon and Junot Diaz with pleas to put out a book soon, which I’m certain would be on many, many “Best” lists; Poets Dorianne Laux, Rachel Loden, Matt Hart, Laurel K. Dodge, Oliver de la Paz, and Bruce Covey (as well as all the contributors to Siren’s first issue) for being supportive, generous with their work, and just plain nice to a new poet and brand-new editor.
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