Member: Leah.Hannah

Books881 books cataloged

Favorite authorsSherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Alison Bechdel, John Berger, Elizabeth Bishop, Olga Broumas, Octavia E. Butler, Anne Carson, Maryse Conde, Lynn Emanuel, Melissa Fondakowski, Suzanne Gardinier, David Henry Hwang, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Amiri Baraka, Joan Larkin, Leo Lionni, Linda McCarriston, Toni Morrison, Frank O'Hara, Caryl Phillips, Manuel Puig, Ul De Rico, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sarah Schulman, Anne Sexton, Rebecca Solnit, Wislawa Szymborska, Shaun Tan, Amber Flora Thomas, Natasha Trethewey, Walt Whitman, Komozi Woodard, Jacqueline Woodson, Franz Wright, Malcolm X (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresDark Carnival, Issues, Moe's Books, Pegasus Books, Pegasus Downtown, Pendragon Books

About meI live in Oakland. When I am waiting for BART and tempted to become a bird, or when I feel like drinking, I dial 1-877-EAT-POEM instead. I like the artworks of Nina Katchadourian. These days, I listen to a lot of Fleet Foxes and Iron & Wine. Perennially, I rely on John Coltrane's A Love Supreme.

About my libraryI have to move and have finally forced myself to pack up all of my books except for the following, which I need to have at hand:
Anne Carson's Oresteia
Brenda Hillman's Practical Water
Brent Armendinger's Archipelago
William Dickey's Of The Festivity
Magdalena Zurawski's The Bruise

Also onBookMooch, NaNo

Real nameLeah Hannah

LocationOakland, CA

Account typeprivate, lifetime

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Member sinceSep 12, 2006

Hi leah,

Are you still active on Library Thing? I haven't been on in ages. Jeffrey

posted by southwestpoet at 8:04 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2009

Hello. We share a lot of books in common. I have a poetry MFA from Sarah Lawrence. Am writing less since law school but looking to reconnect.

posted by D_Eligh at 1:28 pm (EST) on Aug 10, 2008

Thank you, Leah. Santa Barbara was vertiginously beautiful. I don't know why anyone would ever want to leave.

posted by southwestpoet at 4:05 am (EST) on Jun 3, 2008

Hi Leah,
love your poetry collection. I shall visit your library often for inspiration.
I think you'll love the Heaney Beowolf.
One request – rate a few more of you poetry books? Give me somewhere to start ...
Cheers,
Joanna

posted by joannasephine at 4:42 pm (EST) on May 5, 2008

Hi Leah.

Thank you for adding my library to your interesting library list. I'm sure I will reciprocate when I get around to examining other member libraries. For now, I'm still deep in the woods trying to get my cataloguing done. Though I'm fairly current on compiling my Poetry catalogue, it's also the area that I collect most prolifically. I suspect that as I continue to find books I don't already own, the contemporary aspect of my collection will increase.

Your favorite author list includes quite a few names I'm unfamiliar with. If many or most of them are poets, I suspect I'll owe a debt to you in pointing me towards them (once I have located their work on the cheap).

Art

posted by iamwhoambic at 2:39 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2008

leah,

seeing your title selection makes me want to be a more diligent reader and friend. what more can i say.

posted by eyebrad at 1:01 am (EST) on Dec 15, 2007

Wow Leah,

You used to live right around the corner from me! I also used to spend the summers in the Bay Area. My sister lives in San Leandro now... It's actually my favorite place in the country.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Lhea J

posted by LheaJLove at 8:04 am (EST) on Nov 27, 2007

Hi Leah!

I love that list, especially because there are so many books that I haven't read (yet) on it. Maybe I'll find my next book from those 36...

posted by LheaJLove at 4:16 pm (EST) on Nov 26, 2007

Hi Leah,

No problem on the delayed response; I enjoy your correspondence at any and all times.

I am glad that my ars poetica is helpful; I revise it on occasion. Did you find your trip to Sante Fe meaningful?

This past weekend I went to Cal State - Northridge to read some of my poems with others who appear in the near edition of Northridge Review. Outside of LA traffic it was very rewarding.

Peace,
Jeffrey

posted by southwestpoet at 2:24 pm (EST) on Oct 31, 2007

Hi Leah.Hannah, Thanks for tagging my library. Strange coincidences. For many years I was an indie bookseller in Oakland! Where do you work?
Cheers,
Hannah

posted by Hoaks at 1:05 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2007

A 'Where the Wild Things Are' fan!!! :-)

-Rus

posted by rdixon98 at 5:47 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2007

weird. we share 36 books. double chai!

posted by deliriumslibrarian at 6:35 pm (EST) on Jul 16, 2007

Great list. I love Beloved, too, and Go Tell it on the Mountain. This is so much fun. And Ariel (although I didn't include poetry in my list at all). Thanks for this, and for the point to Melissa's book - she's a hell of a writer; her blog is fantastic.

posted by angieV at 10:08 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2007

Great list! Thanks for coming over to my blog. If you hadn't I would have never discovered Library Thing. Very cool.

posted by PoetMom at 9:10 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2007

You have quite a talent at book reviewing - I'm enjoying reading your reviews. One of these days I should get some book recommendations from you because I'm trying to make more time to read (fictino).

posted by twostepsfwd at 12:47 pm (EST) on Dec 20, 2006

I recently found out about James A. Emanuel. He's a great poet. You can go to my blog find the link to some of his poems, and I did a search on LT to find books by him but it seems no one has any except for one that he edited!

posted by mhf44 at 7:01 pm (EST) on Dec 19, 2006

Have you read The Known World by Edward P. Jones? I'm in the middle of it and loving it... I think you would like it.

posted by twostepsfwd at 4:40 pm (EST) on Dec 19, 2006

Hi, I am very happy to hear that you picked up a copy of 'Iraqi Poetry Today;' I really loved it, and wrote a review for Rain Taxi, which is online. If you have the time, it may be found at: http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2004sprin... description of Bruno's work as deep imagist certainly has me intrigued, and I will look for a copy of 'The Street of Crocodiles' when I am in the States next month: I have to go to a budgeting class in D.C. -- yuk -- but I think of the great bookstores there :). I do appreciate your offer of sending me a copy! I am afraid I am also a pathetic American monoliguist; even though I live in Germany I know very little of the language. By the way, someone recommended and sent to me a copy of the poetry anthology 'The World in Us,' editied by Lassell and Georgiou. I haven't really gotten into it yet, but it looks promising, and I thought you might like it as well.

posted by southwestpoet at 10:40 am (EST) on Oct 24, 2006

Hi, Hannah (Leah):
I must commend you on your excellent taste in literature! :) Also, thanks for the recommendation. I will look up that author. I would also recommend that if you like Nalo Hopkinson and Octavia Butler, then you'll LOVE Tananarive Due. Start with My Soul To Keep, which is in production for a motion picture with Blair Underwood as the lead. The sequel is The Living Blood. She has also written The Good House, The Between and Joplin's Ghost. The Good House is also supposed to be made into a movie.

Next, I would recommend her husband, Steven Barnes. He has written several dozen books. I have read Lion's Blood, Zulu Heart, Blood Brothers, Charisma.

I would also recommend The Tribe by Gregory Townes. Spooky stuff.

I would also recommend Brandon Massey. He wrote Within the Shadows, Dark Corner, Thunderland, and Dark Dreams I and II.

You might also be interested in the horror anthology edited by Sheree R. Thomas, called Dark Matter.

You might also be interested in these websites:
http://www.sff.net/people/
http://www.afrofuturism.net/text/lit.htm...
http://www.mamohanraj.com/speculative.ht...

Yes, I've heard of Steven Delaney. I've tried to get into his books, but I couldn't. The homosexual aspects turned me off.

posted by harambeegirl at 12:05 am (EST) on Sep 13, 2006

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