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My Morning Reading, Summer Break Edition, Part Two

I could listen to Glyn Maxwell read me poems all day. What a lovely voice , and a fantastic poem . I have a long list of summer reading. I'm going to stop playing on the computer soon so that I can get to it: Glyn Maxwell's Plays One Glyn Maxwell's Plays Two (Might as well begin with Glyn since I'm reposting his poem above. And yes, I began Plays One ages ago. Now is the time to finish it) The Boys at Twilight by Glyn Maxwell (poems) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabakov (A.P. and I are going to read it at the same time -- he'll reread it -- in a kind of ultra dorky book club that consists of just the two of us) Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot The Sacred Wood by T.S. Eliot (essays, criticism) The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino (essays) The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone De Beauvoir The Second Sex by Simone DeBeauvoir The Bounty by Derek Walcott Words in Air (Lowell & Bishop correspondence, which my mother bought me as a present ages a...