The Volta: Friday Feature

Best Books of 2012
Brandon Shimoda

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Etel Adnan. Sea and Fog. Nightboat Books.
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Attilio Bertolucci. The Bedroom. Translated from the Italian by Luigi Bonaffini. Chelsea Editions.
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Dot Devota. MW: A Midwest fieldguide. Editions 19\.
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Thom Donovan. The Hole. Displaced Press.
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Marosa di Giorgio. Diadem: Selected Poems. Translated from the Spanish by Adam Giannelli. BOA Editions.
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Mimeo Mimeo #7: The Lewis Warsh Issue. Eds. Jed Birmingham & Kyle Schlesinger. Mimeo Mimeo/Cuneiform.
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Amanda Nadelberg. Bright Brave Phenomena. Coffee House.
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Jena Osman. Public Figures. Wesleyan University Press.
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Kenneth Patchen. Selected Correspondence. Bottom Dog Press.

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Srikanth Reddy. Readings in World Literature. Omnidawn.
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Yannis Ritsos. Diaries of Exile. Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich & Edmund Keeley. Archipelago Books.
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Lisa Robertson. Nilling. Book Thug.
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Amelia Rosselli. Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose. Translated from the Italian by Jennifer Scappettone. University of Chicago Press.
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Mary Ruefle. Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures. Wave Books.
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Tomaž Šalamun. On the Tracks of Wild Game. Ugly Duckling Presse.
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Liu Xiaobo. June Fourth Elegies. Translated from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang. Graywolf.

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Brandon Shimoda is the author of four books—most recently Portuguese (Octopus Books & Tin House, 2013) and O Bon (Litmus Press, 2011)—as well as numerous limited editions of collaborations, drawings, writings, and songs. Born in California, he has lived most recently in Maine, Taiwan, and Arizona.