Some summer reading
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Because my friend Michele has requested so especially, I've put together a list of some of my favorites of the small press poetry books I've recently acquired and read. 1. Blood Makes Me Faint But I Go For It , by Natalie Lyalin (Ugly Duckling Presse) I've loved the decidedly strange, but wondrous poetry of Natalie Lyalin since reading her chapbook from UDP, Try a Little Time Travel back in 2010. There's a distinct voice that leaps from poem to poem, that I trust in its confidence even though it's telling me things I've never heard before. Her new collection delivers on a lot of the same qualities that drew me in with her chapbook. Read more about it in her interview here . She's part of UDP's Eastern European Poets Series . 2. Her Book , by É ireann Lorsung (Milkweed Editions) I picked up É ireann Lorsung's Her Book last summer at Malaprop's Bookstore when I was on vacation. I read through it in only two nights while still in