The Publisher's Weekly Top Ten fiasco has inspired me to list a few books of poetry that I've read recently and loved. These books all happen to be by women, though I have not intentionally left any men out. It must be my unconscious bias--of course, if what the people on this
comment stream say is true, unconscious bias is irrelevant. Okay, my bias is not actually unconscious. I've always read more books by women than men--when given a choice--and ironically have had some people tell me that I'm "prejudiced" and "reverse sexist" for doing so, which is hilarious to me. Considering that nearly everything I read in college and high school was written by a man, at a certain level I'm simply evening things out. In any case, here are the books:
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Danielle Pafunda is helping to edit the
WILLA list of Great Books by Women That Publisher's Weekly Missed in 2009, so add your favorite titles.
Look out for more recommendations from me in the future, most of which will be for books by women. However, I doubt I will call attention to the fact that they are written by women. Perhaps if they'd been written by elephants, that would be worth noting.
Note: Not all of the books above were written in 2009. My blog, my rules.
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5 comments:
What's the red one? I can't read it.
I woudl definately add Sandy Florian's The Tree of No, and more that don't spring directly to mind.... I'll probably be posting on Laura Sims' Stranger soon as well.
The red one is Christine Wertheim's +|‘me’S-pace (Les Figues).
And yes, Tree of No is great. In fact, I'll add it now.
Have not read Stranger--look forward to your post about it!
Gah, I love to hate that phrase "reverse sexist" (and "reverse racist") -- so inherently sexist/racist to assume it only goes one way!
UGH--I know exactly what you mean, Becca!
I've realized that in making mix cds for friends, almost everything is female fronted. I say that's fine. Same with books, though I'm currently obsessing over Forrest Gander... I will have to check out your suggestions though :)
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