I've been reading Christopher Logue's really fantastic retellings of the Iliad, lots sexier than "Troy" by many powers of 10. "The Husbands" is one, "All Day Permanent Red" the most recent. There are more.
Also lately anything by any Roth seems great. Most recently Joseph Roth's "Radetzky March" and his "Holy Drinker" (may have the title askew--) "The Furies" by Fernanda Eberhardt. "Butcher's Wife" by Louise Erdrich, not all great but w/ great passages. Of course and always "Trilce" and "Posthumous Poems" by Cesar Vallejo. And a spate of mid-20th century stuff, poems by Williams, Olson, Berryman. Pound's Cantos. And even some Patchen! Who can be skinmeltingly lovely. And "that sweet man John Clare". Some kind of cultural salvation there, if only we could get at it--I've got some essays on his work if anyone would care to read them. Send me offlist message and I'll forward, if you wish. AK On 7/13/04 2:41 AM, "michael leigh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering what the other members of the Fluxlist > were reading at the moment(besides this e-mail)- books > especially, that they recommend or they have enjoyed > reading just lately. > I used to read quite a lot but these days I find it > quite tough going to plough through a novel but Hazel > enjoyed this book and passed it onto me. It's called > "The Curious Incident of the Dog In the > Night-time(Don't let the long winded title put you > off!) by Mark Haddon. Published in the u.k., by > Definitions. > It's about a 15 year old boy who suffers from > Aspergers Syndrome and his quest to find out who > killed the neighbours dog. It's quite funny and > sometimes quite sad and written in an engaging > dead-pan style with helpful diagrams and pictures. > > Michael > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! > Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com >
