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Jay Ponteri Guest Blog at Powell’s Books Day Two

02 Apr 2013|

Powell’s opens at 9 a.m., and around 9:30, the Blue Room booksellers roll out the fiction and poetry carts for shelving. Imagine the home team coming out from the locker room onto the court to an ecstatic crowd of fans. To see all of the new books together — like a new employee orientation? — before being shelved, before mixing in with all of the other books, the new Dara Wier (You Good Thing) finding a comfy spot next to Dara Wier’s Selected Poems, or the new Armantrout (Just Saying) cozying up to a used copy of John Ashbery’s April Galleons, perhaps emitting cozy aesthetic signals a few shelves over to Michael Burkard’s selected poems, Envelope of Night, which is trying but failing to ignore (the way one avoids an extremely gregarious person at a reception) the poetry anthology directly across from it), Poems for Weddings.

Getting here early, I can grab the cleanest copy of whatever new book after which I’ve been pining. Anne Carson’s Red Doc>. Charles Simic’s New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012. The NYRB reissue of Renata Adler’s Speedboat.


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