{"id":2127,"date":"2010-07-06T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2010-07-06T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T17:02:57","slug":"summer-reads-issue-1-contributor-desmond-kon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/summer-reads-issue-1-contributor-desmond-kon\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reads: Issue 1 Contributor Desmond Kon"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our Summer Reads<\/strong> series, we\u2019ve asked contributors from Issue 1<\/a> to share what they\u2019ve been reading or plan to read this summer.\u00a0 This installment features a list from Singaporean poet & ceramist Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingd\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Desmond writes,<\/p>\n

“Here’s my list (some books have arrived and others I’m requisitioning from the national library here) but these are the ones I’ve been excited about (there are others but they’ll have to wait for next year or something):<\/p>\n

Power & Possibility: Essays, Reviews and Interviews<\/a><\/em> (by Elizabeth Alexander)<\/p>\n

Islamic Ceramics<\/a><\/em> (by James W. Allan)<\/p>\n

The Gate of Horn<\/em><\/a> (by L. S. Asekoff)<\/p>\n

Planisphere<\/em><\/a> (by John Ashbery)<\/p>\n

This Lamentable City<\/em><\/a> (by Polina Barskova)<\/p>\n

These Extremes<\/em><\/a> (by Richard Bausch)<\/p>\n

I Was the Jukebox<\/em><\/a> (by Sandra Beasley)<\/p>\n

The Collectors<\/em><\/a> (by Matt Bell)<\/p>\n

Approaching Ice<\/em><\/a> (by Elizabeth Bradfield)<\/p>\n

Plato\u2019s Socrates<\/em><\/a> (by Thomas C. Brickhouse & Nicholas D. Smith)<\/p>\n

An Island of Fifty<\/em><\/a> (by Ben Brooks)<\/p>\n

Confusion: A Study in the Theory of Knowledge<\/em><\/a> (by Joseph L. Camp, Jr.)<\/p>\n

Until Before After<\/em><\/a> (by Ciaran Carson)<\/p>\n

Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering<\/a><\/em> (by C. Barry Carter)<\/p>\n

One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America <\/em><\/a>(by Dan Chiasson)<\/p>\n

Pierce the Skin <\/em><\/a>(by Henri Cole)<\/p>\n

Heterologies: Discourse on the Other<\/em><\/a> (by Michel de Certeau)<\/p>\n

When All Our Days Are Numbered<\/em><\/a> (by Sasha Fletcher)<\/p>\n

For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut<\/em><\/a> (by Takashi Hiraide)<\/p>\n

The Living Fire<\/em><\/a> (by Edward Hirsch)<\/p>\n

Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot<\/em><\/a> (by Cassandra Laity & Nancy K. Gish)<\/p>\n

We Don\u2019t Know We Don\u2019t Know<\/em><\/a> (by Nick Lantz)<\/p>\n

Chinese Ceramics<\/em><\/a> (by Stacey Pierson)<\/p>\n

Long Lens<\/em><\/a> (by Peter Makuck)<\/p>\n

Tocqueville<\/em><\/a> (by Khaled Mattawa)<\/p>\n

The Stranger Manual<\/em><\/a> (by Catie Rosemurgy)<\/p>\n

Vinland<\/em><\/a> (by Jamie Ross)<\/p>\n

Living Must Bury<\/em><\/a> (by Josie Sigler)<\/p>\n

Postmodern Ceramics<\/em><\/a> (by Mark Del Vecchio & Garth Clark)<\/p>\n

Archicembalo<\/em><\/a> (by G. C. Waldrep)<\/p>\n

A lovely set of Mud Luscious Press chapbooks<\/a> (by Eric Beeny, Matt Bell, Michael Berstein, Daniel Citro, Ryan Downey, David Gianatasio, Kuzhali Manickavel, Ben Segal)”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks to Desmond for sharing his reading list with us. Check out his poems, “first falling, to get here, ferric by foot<\/a>” and “: craquelure at the interiors :<\/a>” in Issue 1 of Lantern Review<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here’s my list (some books have arrived and others I’m requisitioning from the national library here) but these are the ones I’ve been excited about (there are others but they’ll have to wait for next year or something):<\/div>\n

Power & Possibility: Essays, Reviews and Interviews (by Elizabeth Alexander)<\/p>\n

Islamic Ceramics (by James W. Allan)<\/p>\n

The Gate of Horn (by L. S. Asekoff)<\/p>\n

Planisphere (by John Ashbery)<\/p>\n

This Lamentable City (by Polina Barskova)<\/p>\n

These Extremes (by Richard Bausch)<\/p>\n

I Was the Jukebox (by Sandra Beasley)<\/p>\n

The Collectors (by Matt Bell)<\/p>\n

Approaching Ice (by Elizabeth Bradfield)<\/p>\n

Plato\u2019s Socrates (by Thomas C. Brickhouse & Nicholas D. Smith)<\/p>\n

An Island of Fifty (by Ben Brooks)<\/p>\n

Confusion: A Study in the Theory of Knowledge (by Joseph L. Camp, Jr.)<\/p>\n

Until Before After (by Ciaran Carson)<\/p>\n

Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering (by C. Barry Carter)<\/p>\n

One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America (by Dan Chiasson)<\/p>\n

Pierce the Skin (by Henri Cole)<\/p>\n

Heterologies: Discourse on the Other (by Michel de Certeau)<\/p>\n

When All Our Days Are Numbered (by Sasha Fletcher)<\/p>\n

For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (by Takashi Hiraide)<\/p>\n

The Living Fire (by Edward Hirsch)<\/p>\n

Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot (by Cassandra Laity & Nancy K. Gish)<\/p>\n

We Don\u2019t Know We Don\u2019t Know (by Nick Lantz)<\/p>\n

Chinese Ceramics (by Stacey Pierson)<\/p>\n

Long Lens (by Peter Makuck)<\/p>\n

Tocqueville (by Khaled Mattawa)<\/p>\n

The Stranger Manual (by Catie Rosemurgy)<\/p>\n

Vinland (by Jamie Ross)<\/p>\n

Living Must Bury (by Josie Sigler)<\/p>\n

Postmodern Ceramics (by Mark Del Vecchio & Garth Clark)<\/p>\n

Archicembalo (by G. C. Waldrep)<\/p>\n

A lovely set of Mud Luscious Press chapbooks (by Eric Beeny, Matt Bell, Michael Berstein, Daniel Citro, Ryan Downey, David Gianatasio, Kuzhali Manickavel, Ben Segal)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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