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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Divorcing Mom: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis
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Melissa Knox
davekingwriter
, March 31, 2019
I tore through this book impressed by the candor, delighted by the storytelling, intrigued by the structure and moved by Knox's ultimate survival. Divorcing Mom is that rare and deeply impressive work: a compellingly subjective and touching autobiography animated by veins of impressive intellect, thoughtfulness and genuine ideas.
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Leprosarium: Poems
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Lise Goett
davekingwriter
, July 21, 2018
I love this book. I'm reading it slowly because it's complicated and rewarding, so I'll read between one and three poems each morning, then sometimes go through them again before moving on. What I'm discovering is a really interesting series of images and ideas that fit together in ways that seem entirely original to me--and unique to this poet. "Cloud Forest," for example, discusses the relationship between man and nature with the unease of of a warning label, the rigor of a textbook and the upswept seductiveness of a love letter. "Middle Child" describes that family situation through an elaborate allegory on the power of castrati—and pulls it off without breaking a sweat. It's strange and enlightening. I'm especially touched by Goett's boldness and range. "Symphony in Flesh" is a villanelle--a villanelle!-- on the famous photograph of the girl running out of a napalmed village. Who would have thought that this ruminative circular form could be used to advance an angry antiwar argument, but the repeating lines—"Hungers are hard to kill when you're bereft" and "By August there are no good mothers left"— get us there in a way that's impressive, unexpected and crazy powerful. And yet, there's plenty of lightness here too. There's more wordplay than I anticipated from this poet and a periodic loose shagginess that terrifically offsets the rigor of some church-based imagery. The diction ranges dazzlingly: silage and chakra at one end of a poem, Guantanamo and b-boys at the other. There are jokes and puns and occasional silliness, all in the service of the most striking and dynamic reading experience. Highly recommended.
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In a Strange Room
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Damon Galgut
davekingwriter
, January 01, 2012
I've read In a Strange Room twice, given countless copies away and put it on the reading lists for my classes. No one doesn't love this book.
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Secret Historian The Life & Times of Samuel Steward Professor Tattoo Artist & Sexual Renegade
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Justin Spring
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, January 02, 2011
Justin Spring's biography of scholar/novelist/tattoo artist/renegade Samuel Steward is the year's most surprising and subtle biography.
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