At the end of Naropa’s Summer Writing Program, graduate students are required to turn in a portfolio, which includes responses to panels, lectures and readings as well as creative work. These must be followed by a bibliography. They should be in MLA format. This one here is not in MLA format. This one here is from 2012. The bibliography should consist of texts you have come into contact with or heard of throughout SWP.
This is the first mention of Anna Kavan in my writing. During a panel, after a discussion turned to authors and addictions, a student approached the microphone and asked “What about Anna Kavan? She wrote Julia and the Bazooka, which is about her heroin addiction.”
Or, a person said something. I had never before heard of Anna Kavan. I do not remember what the person really said. But I wrote “Anna Kavan” in my crowded notes. That is where I found her.
Below is the bibliography in its entirety, a reading list, a beginning.
Anderson, Eric. The Poetics of Trespass.
Agamben, Giorgio. In Coming Community.
Ai. Cruelty/Killing Floor.
Baraka, Amiri. Wise, Why’s Y’s.
Burger, Mary. Then Go On.
Butler, Octavia. Bloodchild and Other Stories.
Brautigan, Richard. Trout Fishing In America.
Brent, Linda. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Brown, Rebecca. American Romances.
Bryant, Tisa. Unexplained Presence.
Calvino, Italo. The Uses of Literature.
Campbell, Joseph. The Return.
Carson, Anne. If Not Winter, Fragments of Sappho.
Carson, Anne. Nox.
Carr, Julie. 100 Notes on Violence.
Coke, Alison Hedge. Off-Season City Pipe.
Conrad, CA. A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics.
Cortez, Jayne. Festivals and Funerals.
Coultas, Brenda. The Marvelous Bones of Time.
Derricotte, Toi. The Undertaker’s Daughter.
Dykeman, Wilma. The French Broad.
Froude, Richard. Fabric.
Gladman, Renee. Event Factory.
Grinnell, E. Tracy. Music or Forgetting.
Halberstam, Judith/Jack. Queer Time.
Harris, Wilson. The Well and the Land.
Hegenauer, HR. Sir.
Hunt, Erica. Arcade.
Jarnot, Lisa. Night Scenes.
Jones, Meta DuEwa. The Muse is Music.
Kavan, Anna. Julia and the Bazooka.
Kapil, Bhanu. Schizophrene.
Kaufman, Bob. Cranial Guitar, Selected Poems.
Keene, John. Annotations.
Kyger, Joanne. Just Space.
Lee, Ed Bok. Whorled.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Unlocking the Air and Other Stories.
Levertov, Denise. Relearning the Alphabet.
Martin, Dawn Lundy. A Matter of Gathering/ A Gathering of Matter.
Notley, Alice. In the Pines.
Osman, Jena. The Network.
Ping, Wang. The Magic Whip.
Phi, Bao. Song I Sing.
Philip, M. Nourbese. Zong!
Reed, Ishmael. The Last Days of Louisiana Red.
Redonnet, Marie. Rose Mellie Rose.
Rexillius, Andrea. Half of What they Carried Flew Away.
Saterstrom, Selah. The Meat and Spirit Plan.
Sharma, Prageeta. Undergloom.
Smith, Tracy K. What the Body Remembers.
Spahr, Juliana. The Transformation.
Szymaszek, Stacy. Emptied of All Ships.
Torres, Justin. We the Animals.
Trethewey, Natasha. Native Guard.
Veglahn, Sara. Closed Histories.
Weissman, David. We Were Here.
Waldrop, Rosmarie. Dissonance (if you are interested).
Wheatley, Phillis. Revolutionary Poet.
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns.
Yankelevich, Matvei. Boris by the Sea.
White Ink 