Books, books, and talking about them.
Books, books, and talking about them,
and trolleying home to a third floor
walk-up and looking out the window
---Elizabeth Alexander
    from American Sublime

Bookshelf
 

fiction
A Mercy, by Toni Morrison
If Sons, Then Heirs by Lorene Carey

non-fiction
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson

poetry
Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars
Ross Gay's Bringing The Shovel Down
Jean Valentine's  Break The Glass 

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