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Kel Munger
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Jelly Roll: A Blues by Kevin Young
The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg: Revised and Expanded Edition by Carl Sandburg
Letters to Wendy's by Joe Wenderoth
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
Back on the Fire: Essays by Gary Snyder
Opening Atlantis by Harry Turtledove
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney by Anonymous
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Friends: batpoet, D_Eligh, flatmancrooked, TheresaWilliams, TimeTestedBooks
Interesting libraries: batpoet, clarkpoetry, iamwhoambic, land_mammal, Laure-Anne, lknol1, LynnW, MatthewHittinger, rmharris, TimeTestedBooks, TRHummer, WGWright
LibraryThing authors: Kel Munger (KelMunger), William Wright (WGWright), Brent Hartinger (brenthartinger), Kaya Oakes (kayaoakes), Kyria Abrahams (kyriaabrahams), Reginald Harris (rmharris), Constance Merritt (runobodyii), William Lobdell (williamlobdell)
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Member: KelMunger
CollectionsYour library (1,328)
Reviews61 reviews
TagsPoetry (858), American Literature (820), Feminism (186), GLBT (147), African American (135), Religion (126), Literary Criticism (105), American History (99), Translation (71), Nonfiction (69) — see all tags
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GroupsCalifornians Who LT, Poetry Fool
Favorite authorsAi, Mark Doty, Carolyn Forche, Timothy Liu, Anne Sexton, Kevin Young (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresAvid Reader, Beers Books, Book Den, The Book Collector, Time Tested Books
Favorite librariesSacramento Public Library - Central Library, Sacramento Public Library - McKinley Library
About mePoet, writer and editor. I read omnivorously and sometimes indiscriminately. So far, I've averaged a book a day since I was seven (that's four decades, but who's counting?). I love poetry, drama, literary fiction, general non-fiction; I'm intrigued by science, history and religion; and obsessed by politics. For "brain-candy," I prefer science fiction (especially alternative/speculative history) and *blush* lesbian romance.
About my libraryThe "permanent" collection is made up of poetry, political/cultural scholarship (especially critical studies of gender, race & class), and some sentimental favorites. In addition to the personal library logged here, I also have books that are up for trade at BookMooch or that will eventually be donated to either the local public library or the California prison library system. Get books to the people!
Homepagehttp://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/bibliolatry/Blogs
Real nameKel Munger
LocationSacramento, CA
Account typepublic, lifetime
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Common KnowledgeSeries (56), Awards (183), Characters (749), Places (195)
Member sinceNov 17, 2006
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"flatmanCROOKED - First Winter" is already in the database. if you'd like to add it, well, you can add it now. we're doing some stuff with you all at sn&r in both the near and distant future. glad to have you on board.
kaelan smith, senior editor, fmC
posted by flatmancrooked at 3:49 am (EST) on Sep 12, 2008
When I was at SLC, Mark was on leave, although visiting often. He was still dealing with Wally's death. I'm delighted to note that he's teaching part of the year now at the U of Houston Creative Writing Program, which is stellar. Houston is not that close to San Antonio, but a lot closer than NYC.
I'd love to read some of the criticism you're writing. There's really a shortage of good critical writing out there. It's very important.
Debra
posted by D_Eligh at 5:53 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2008
Debra
posted by D_Eligh at 2:09 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2008
Our shared book list has more than doubled since my original message. I'm about ready to enter the last bookcase. It's full of individual issues (as opposed to selected, collected, or complete works). Not all the poets represented are canonical, but I also wouldn't say that many are particularly contemporary.
I am not familiar with The Book collector on 24th. I'll definitely make a stop there the next time I make into town.
Thanks again.
posted by iamwhoambic at 5:55 pm (EST) on Jan 29, 2008
Between us we make up a fairly strong Poetry showing on librarything for the Sacramento region. It's somewhat surprising to me that between us we have nearly 1,000 books tagged 'Poetry', and only 17 are shared. I still have over 300 to tag, so I think the number will increase.
I'm going to enjoy looking through your titles.
Art
posted by iamwhoambic at 1:56 am (EST) on Jan 26, 2008
I've read your pieces in the SN&R and seen your name pop up on the Davis Dykes list and it's funny to run into you here. Small world & all.
I hope you're getting to enjoy a leisurely and literary long weekend.
Rory
posted by eatmorekale at 8:28 pm (EST) on Nov 24, 2007