Influences:

Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers
Lyn Hejinian, My Life in the Nineties
Wayne Koestenbaum, Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems
Harryette Mullen, Muse & Drudge
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment
Ad Reinhardt, Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
Joan Retallack, Afterrimages
Frederick Seidel, The Cosmos Trilogy
Marjorie Welish, The Windows Flew Open

Summer Reading:

Edward Hallett Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution, Vol. 1-3
Guy Debord, Panegyric, Vol. 1-2
Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Rosalyn Drexler, Vulgar Lives
Rachel Loden, Dick of the Dead
Akilah Oliver, A Toast in the House of Friends
Joel Skousen, The Secure Home
Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bratsk Station and Other New Poems

Continuing with Summer Reading lists from Apostrophe authors, here are two from Catherine Meng, author of Tonight’s the Night:

1. Most Influential

• Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
• Samuel Beckett – Endgame
• Lyn Hejinian - My Life
• Eugenio Montale - The Occasions
• Rainer Maria Rilke - Book of Hours

2. To Be Read This Summer

• Brett C. Millier - Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It
• Elizabeth Bishop - The Complete Poems 1927 – 1979
• Elizabeth Bishop - The Collected Prose
• Mark Lamoureux - Astrometry Orgonon
• Oberiu: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism – edited by Eugene Ostashevsky

More summer reading from Johannes Göransson….Some of the books he’s reading or re-reading this summer:

• Joseph Beys, Arena - where would I have got if I had been intelligent

• Ann Jäderlund’s new book

• Karl Larlsson’s Form/Force (which I am also translating)

• Various other Swedish artists whose essays and catalogs I’m translating

• Aaron Kunin, The Mandarin

• Angela Rawlings, Wide Slumber for Leps

• Calling All Agents, Tom McCarthy (I like this manifesto better than
  his novel, Remainder)

• Cinematic Modernism, Susan McCabe

• The Worst of All by Estela Lamat (trans. Michael Leong)

• Victorian Studies (Spring 2008) (About “emotions”)

• Susan McCabe, Descartes’ Nightmare

• Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (trans. Tom Conley)

• Kruchneykh, Suicide Circus (trans. Jack Hirschman etc)

• Kathy Acker, Pussy of the Pirates

• Mark Wallace, Felonies of Illusion

• Huysman, Against Nature

• Cocteau, Potomac (trans. Michael Sanchez)

• Juan Suarez, Bike Boys, Drag Queens and Superstars

• Sara Hallström, Rötter Smälter

• Amelia Rosselli, The Dragonfly (trans Guisepe Leporace and Deborah Woodard)

• Jane Miller, Palace of Pearls

• A lot of published and unpublished French and English translation
  editions of Henri Michaux