{"id":4188,"date":"2011-07-27T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2011-12-06T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T18:20:29","slug":"summer-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/27\/summer-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reads: Michelle Pe\u00f1aloza, Kenji C. Liu and Gowri Koneswaran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our Summer Reads 2011<\/strong> blog series!\u00a0 Throughout the months of July and August, we will be featuring recommended reading lists submitted by Lantern Review <\/em>contributors who want to share books they plan to read this summer and titles they want to suggest to the wider LR <\/em>community.\u00a0 This post is a triple feature and includes reads from Issue 2<\/a> contributors Michelle Pe\u00f1aloza, Kenji C. Liu and Gowri Koneswaran.<\/p>\n

Michelle writes:<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’m hoping to get to this\u00a0summer:<\/p>\n

Atlantis<\/span> by Mark Doty
\nThe Surrendered<\/span> by Chang-Rae Lee
\nInfinite Jest<\/span> by David Foster Wallace
\nSnow Country<\/span> by Yasunari Kawabata
\nNatural History: A Selection<\/span> by Pliny the Elder
\nJust Kids<\/span> by Patti Smith
\nAutobiography of Red<\/span> by Anne Carson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kenji writes:<\/p>\n

Here’s my\u00a0summer\u00a0reading list so far:<\/p>\n

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry<\/span>, by Jane Hirshfield
\nTender Buttons<\/span>, by Gertrude Stein
\nDwellings<\/span>, by Linda Hogan
\nOne With Others<\/span>, by C. D. Wright
\nOn Becoming Filipino<\/span>, by Carlos Bulosan
\nThe Map as Art<\/span>, by Katharine Harmon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Gowri adds:<\/p>\n

Here are some recommended books that I’ve read in the past couple of years (and LOVE):<\/p>\n

Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry<\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/bbpbooks.teachingforchange.org\/book\/9781557289315<\/a><\/p>\n

Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings<\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Insects-Just-Like-Except-Wings\/dp\/8190605631<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks to these three contributors—and to read their poems in Lantern Review, Issue 2<\/a><\/em>, click on Michelle’s “Vestige<\/a>,” Kenji’s “A Son Writes Back<\/a>” and Gowri’s performance of the collaborative piece “Where are you from?<\/a>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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