Bang Ditto
10 best books like Bang Ditto (Amber Tamblyn): The Beautifully Worthless, Rise of the Trust Fall, Not Vanishing, Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic, Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays, Abortion & Life, Short Stories, Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story, Jenny Holzer, On Subbing: The First Four Years
| Author | Ali Liebegott |
| ISBN | 0974638846 |
3.5*
This was an audiobook I picked up on a whim not knowing what it was about.
As it turns out, The Beautifully Worthless is a work of poetic fiction that describes a road trip in letters to the protagonist's girlfriend.
Unsatisfied with her life the protagonist sets out with...
| Author | Mindy Nettifee |
| ISBN | 0984251596 |
In Mindy Nettifee's second book, Rise of the Trust Fall, her poems possess a magic that can only come from a seasoned writer willing to share more on the page than she's comfortable with. Whether exploring the strange alchemy of healing, the perils of self-actualization, or the contemporary experience...
| Author | Chrystos |
| ISBN | 0889740151 |
essentially the english language fails me sometimes when i want to capture the depth of importance of experience, and i can't find words for what i want to say here about gratitude and reverence. this collection is full of love and strength and rage that all are incredibly deep and powerful. her form is...
| Author | Alyssa Milano |
| ISBN | 0061625108 |
Like Alyssa, I learned about baseball on my fathers knee. His passion for the Red Sox was infectous. I was 7 when Ted Williams hit a home run at his last at bat in the final game of his career. At the time I didn't understand the magnitude of this event. Today I fully understand that this was the only way the Splendid...
Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays
| Author | Anne Waldman |
| ISBN | 0872863166 |
Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with “Chant” as central to contemporary performative poetry.
Here are spells, invocations, laments, ritual...
| Author | Jennifer Baumgardner |
| ISBN | 1933354593 |
“In her role as author and activist, Jennifer Baumgardner has permanently changed the way people think about feminism . . . and will shape the next hundred years of politics and culture.”—The Commonwealth Club of California, hailing Baumgardner as one of Six Visionaries for the Twenty-First...
Described by literary critic Robert Morss Lovett as "a novelist of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of culture, preoccupied with the upper ('and inner') class," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith...
| Author | Paul Whitelaw |
| ISBN | 0312341377 |
In the eight years since their first release, Belle and Sebastian have grown from a secretive cult concern into one of the most beloved and revered pop’n’roll bands in the world. Intelligent and sensitive, witty and original, beautiful and bold, their music inspires the kind of devotion not seen...
| Author | Jenny Holzer |
| ISBN | 0714837547 |
This revised and greatly expanded edition of the book originally published on the occasion of Holzer's celebrated exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1989 is a comprehensive document of the artist's career. A complete collection of the artist's writings, up to and including her 1996...
On Subbing is a quiet classic. It's impossible to put down, or forget, Dave Roche's vivid, self-deprecating, tales of woe from working as a substitute teaching assistant in Portland's elementary schools in the early 2000s. He writes about the good days and the terrible ones, helping kids who can't...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0140150358 |
Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the development of the modern short story.
Edited...
| Author | Marilyn Hacker |
| ISBN | 0393312259 |
Anyone who has ever been in love ought to read this book. Any woman who has ever been in love with another woman absolutely must read this book. Anyone who believes form in poetry trite will be changed by this book (and by Hacker's poetry in general).
I have heard Hacker read her work; each word is...
| Author | Gary Jackson |
| ISBN | 1555975720 |
The exploits you find in my comics
are no more probable
than snow in Sunnyvale.
I’m not as black as you dream.
—from “Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is With humor and the serious collector’s delight, Gary Jackson imagines the comic-book...
| Author | Patricia Smith |
| ISBN | 1566892996 |
Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry
Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award
Winner of 2014 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
"Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith’s new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is just beautiful—and...
| Author | Derrick Brown |
| ISBN | 0978998901 |
This book is so incredible that I've actually purchased 6 copies over the last six years. I bought my first copy way back in 2004, during the Lasers of Sexcellance tour. I loved it so much, I lent it to a friend and never saw it again, so I bought another copy. I lent that copy to a pretty girl a few years later...
| Author | Buddy Wakefield |
| ISBN | 1935904108 |
Buddy Wakefield's third book, Gentleman Practice, documents the figurative contents of a man's body attempting to stand firm in the presence of all that is. It's a poetry book, from the perspective of a journal entry in the National Archives. The National Archives live in a building in Seattle behind...
Poetry. PINK ELEPHANT is Rachel McKibbens' collection of beautifully crafted, emotionally searing poems depicting the fractured mythology of a family's tumultuous life. Picking up where Plath and Sexton have left off, McKibbens threatens the comfortable confines of confessional poetry with...
| Author | Anis Mojgani |
| ISBN | 0981521347 |
Over The Anvi We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three legged frog on the lawn and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the river and the stars burning above. He manages to capture...
| Author | Lara Glenum |
| ISBN | 0981859143 |
Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics brings together eighteen poets of wide-ranging backgrounds, united in their ability to push the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies, and pairs them with visual artists who do the same. At the turn of the millennium,...
| Author | Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz |
| ISBN | 0982148895 |
Found some treasured lines in this collection. And had my introduction to Andrea Gibson. She stands out in this collection. Did Buddy Wakefield have his own collections? My favorites I'll list below.
-Brian Ellis "Letter from my voice"
-Shira Erlichman "All Competitive for speed...
| Author | Lauren Zúñiga |
| ISBN | 1935904973 |
The Smell of Good Mud explores the grit and splendor of collective living, queer parenting and other radical choices in the conservative landscape of Oklahoma. Lauren Zuniga has made a name for herself for fearlessly confronting legislators and being an ambassador for the Heartland. This collection...
| Author | Cindy Gretchen Ovenrack Crabb |
| ISBN | 0972696784 |
Even the simplest, most common thingsplaying music, childhood, cooking, or sexresonate with universal understanding in this collection of issues of the zine Doris. Making sense of more complex things, the essays touch on the satisfaction from doing useful work, natural curiosity, the ability...
