
A day filled with desire. I’m rearranging bookcases, loosening their ties to the alphabet. This morning I placed two books by Doug Nufer in the Pound section. Crazed color swirls down the Nufer spines, flashing off the thicker, more solemn backs of the Pounds. I'm not free of the alphabet yet, because the p section is close enough to the n of Nufer. My next move (I’m getting help pulling books down and reordering them) is to color-sort the works, fuchsias, whites, lemons, aquas, grays — maybe bands of grays and then blacks, since there are so many of them. When I do this, maybe in a couple of months, starting with pinks and reds, the spine to Dodie Bellamy’s
Cunt-Ups will line up with Joe Ceravolo’s
The Green Lake Is Awake, along with several endpapers of John Ashbery’s,
The Tennis Court Oath, Flow Chart, Three Plays.
Other reddish-to-pinks: Kathy Acker’s
Pussycat Fever, Brenda Bordofsky’s
The Female Skeleton Makes Her Debut, as well as
Past Tense by Jean Cocteau and
All Ears by Dennis Cooper. The spines to Dennis’s
Frisk and
Try will slip into the gold section, as will C. F. MacIntyre’s translation,
Stéphane Mallarmé Selected Poems and
Pierre Reverdy: Poète d’aujourd’hui by Jean Rousselot and Michel Manoll. Novel and renewed associations! Brenda Iijima’s backend,
Around Sea, wiggling in its half-gold, half-orchidness, a toss-up.
from 2007