Reading: February-March 2019

A few of the books I’ve enjoyed reading, or returning to, in February and March 2019:

• Karl Ove Knausgaard’s A Death in the Family: Book I of the six My Struggle (Min Kamp) novels (autobiographical novel: Vintage, 2009).
• Ada Limón’s The Carrying: A follow-up to 2015’s acclaimed Bright Dead Things (poetry: Corsair, 2018).
• JL Carr’s A Month in the Country: Published by Penguin as a ‘Classic’, and the source of a 1987 film starring Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh, in their third and second film roles respectively (short novel: Penguin, 1980).
• WS Merwin’s Garden Time (poetry: Copper Canyon, 2016).
• Frank O’Hara’s Meditations in an Emergency (poetry: Grove, 1957).
• Alejandra Pizarnik’s The Galloping Hour: French Poems: Patricio Ferrari and Forrest Gander’s translations of the French poems of Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik, who died in 1972 (poetry: New Directions, 2018).
• Forrest Gander’s Be With (poetry: New Directions, 2018).
• WS Merwin’s The Shadow of Sirius (poetry: Bloodaxe, 2009).
• Ron Rash’s Poems: New and Selected (poetry: Ecco, 2016).
• David Marno’s Death Be Not Proud: The Art of Holy Attention: An extended study of John Donne’s poem ‘Death, Be Not Proud’, which argues for the possibility of poetry as a kind of ‘inception’ (criticism: University of Chicago, 2016).