Welcome to the new Ahadada Books Site! In this space I hope to list, comment on, and perhaps review (as per my time and energy) the books that I’m reading and the various materials that come in through the transom. On the way we’ll address whatever topics present themselves.
The Zohar, Vol. IV. (Sperling Translation). I have been mining this glorious work since 1979.
Georg Buchner. Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings. (Penguin). Always a favorite–particularly the metaphors in Danton’s Death.
Carl Zimmer. Parasite Rex (Random House). Tape worms, parasitic wasps, guinea worms and more!
John James. Collected Poems. (Salt). I particularly like the early work.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Army Life In A Black Regiment. (Penguin).
Anne Somerset. The Affair of the Poisons; Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV. Five Stars! One of the most complete accounts of the scandal that rocked Versailles. Is uncannily similar to the Salem witchcraft trials, I think, through it precedes the American tragedy by a generation. I hope to finish this one this evening.
Janine Beichman. Embracing The Firebird; Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Fremale Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry. U. of Hawai’i Press. Just started this one, but it promises to be a fruitful read.
Well, enough blogging for tonight!