Coda

Forty years ago the New York-based film critic Armond White (who was a year ahead of me at Central High and Wayne State University in Detroit) hired me as a music critic for our college newspaper, The South End, and I started writing pop, rock and r & b record reviews a la Robert Christgau, Dave Marcus, Lester Bangs, Vince Aletti et al (side note: I preferred Creem to Rolling Stone). That model—short, pithy snapshots—was the inspiration for the last three months of chapbook and book reviews here at Jacket2, plus a way to make a dent in those to-be-read stacks of books and chapbooks. I read a lot more books than the ones I reviewed and I learned a lot about my own predilections and prejudices in the process. Below is a list of the chapbooks and books I did not, for a variety of reasons, review but nonetheless like well enough to recommend (with the usual caveat emptor).

 Not Reviewed But Recommended:

• Eleni Stecopoulos, Daphnephoria (Compline)
• Todd Melicker, King & Queen (Little Red Leaves, 2012)
• Joe Milazzo, The Terraces [Das Arquibancadas] (Little Red Leaves, 2012)
• Hugo Garcia Manriquez, Two Poems (Hooke Press, 2013)
• Brian Teare, Black Sun Crown (Fact Simile Editions, 2012)
• Dan Beachy-Quick/Srikanth Reddy, Mobius Crowns (P-Queue Books, 2008)
• Dana Crum, Good Friday 2000 (Avenue Press, 2014)
• Kate Greenstreet, called (delete press, 2011)
• George Albon, Love and Strife (self-published)
• David Brazil, Holy Ghost  III & Holy Ghost IV (Compline)
• Micah Robbins, Crass Songs of Sand & Brine (Habenicht Press, 2010)
• Norma Kassirer, The 1985 Notebook (The Buffalo Ochre Papers, 2012)
• Eileen Myles, Pencil Poems (Chax Press, 2011)
• Tom Mandel, Partial Wave Form; Some Epigrams of Palladas (self published)
• Selected Late Letters of Antonin Artaud: 1945-1947,eds.  and trans.: Peter Valente and Cole Heinowitz (Portable Press@Yo-Yo Labs, 2014)
• John Coletti, mum halo (Rust Buckle Books, 2010)
• Elizabeth Robinson, On Monsters (Little Red Leaves Textile Editions, 2013)
• Christine Hume. Ventifacts  (Omnidawn, 2012)
• Jonathan Skinner, With Naked Foot (little scratch pad editions, 2009)
• Nathaniel Mackey, Outer Pradesh (Anomalous Press, 2014)
• Matt Rasmussen, Black Aperture (Louisiana State Press, 2013) 
• Srikanth Reddy, Readings in World Literature (Omnidawn, 2012)
• Lisa Jarnot, Joie de Vivre (DirtySwan Projects, 2011)
• Susan Gervitz, Prosthesis:: Caesarea (LRL e-editions, 2009)
• Will Alexander and Janice Lee, The Transparent As Witness (Solar Luxuriance, 2013)
• Julia Drescher, Birds of Paradise (ypolita press, 2011)
• Nikki Wallschhlaeger, I Would Be The Happiest Bird (Horse Less Press, 2014)
• Stephanie Young, Picture Palace (ingirumimusnocte, 2008)
• Zack Haber, if you want to be one of them playing in the street...(Quiet Lightning/Tiny Splendor, 2014)