Category: Reading Through the Stacks
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. We’re talking about another new volume of poetry today, published in 2021: You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson.. Andrea Gibson (August 13, 1975-) is a queer poet, whose work focuses on LGBTQ+, health, and social justice themes. They are a well known spoken word performer as…
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s Poetry collection. Taking a break from the 20th century, let’s spring ahead to something published this year. Rae Armantrout (1947-) is a Pulitzer winning poet (2010 for Versed). She has published something like 10+ collections, which seems amazingly prolific to me. She was born and did her undergrad and…
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library main branch’s poetry collection, book by book. The way poetry is organized in a library is quite different from fiction. Fiction is often just organized by author’s last name. Some libraries separate (either physically with shelving or using a sticker or some other indicator) different genres, but most of…
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library main branch’s poetry collection, book by book. What is there to say about Man-Fate by William Everson? Honestly, the less said about it the better. But I read it–I want it to go back to the library. I’m sick of looking at it on my desk waiting to be…
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Join me as I read my way through the poetry section at the main branch of the Oakland Public Library! First of all, I can’t talk about this book without mentioning how fun this 70s sunset is on the cover–bold, interesting, and really quite simple. I think this library copy is probably a first edition.…
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This series is being born out of a dangerous whim, which I can only attribute to the temporary giddiness of a new library card. Upon seeing the (truthfully rather average sized) poetry collection at the main branch, I was seized by an impulse to read from one end of the poetry section to the other.…
Allison Burris 