Night Table Reading (this is partial list of the books stacked on the nightstand, stuffed in the nightstand, stacked beside the nightstand and the ones under the bed):
I’m going back to basics with poetry: Stanley
Kunitz (The Wild Braid, W. W. Norton, 2005), Ruth Stone (In the Next
Galaxy, Copper Canyon Press, 2002), Mary Oliver (American Primitive,
Back Bay Books, 1978), Nikki Giovanni (My House, Wm. Morrow, 1972) and a
fine collection of women’s work from the past 44 centuries, Women in Praise
of the Sacred, edited by Jane Hirschfield (Harper Perennial, 1994)
Taking another look at the books of E. Lynn Harris
and at Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, both of whom passed away
recently.
I’m back into thrillers as well and,
especially, those with a historical backdrop: by Rennie Airth: River of
Darkness (Viking, 1999) and The Blood-Dimmed Tide (Viking, 2005),
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson, Vintage Crime, 2009),
Currently reading a ghost story by Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
(Riverhead Books, 2009).
Also revisiting
the Middle Passage with Charles Johnson in his novel of the same name. I
have the paperback Plume edition (1991). Check out the mysterious Allmuseri…
At the movies: I’ve done Terminators, Harry
Potters, Transformers and Julia Child. Heading into deeper waters with The
Hurt Locker and District 9
On the
iPod: INVOCATION featuring Ty Burhoe and Krishna Das, LUCK OF THE DRAW by Bonnie
Raitt, anything by Stanley Turrentine, Alice (not John) Coltrane and Anoushka
Shankar’s RISE – Namaste, y’all!
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