It’s the cotton quilt, and I want one. I am resisting buying it because I have bills to pay, but it is on the list. You can order them from Kyoto for 38,000 yen plus shipping, and I don’t know how much that is. But the item itself costs less than $300. That’s more fun … More Kakefuton

There is this book on Russian Montparnasse, and there is the writer Ekaterina V. Bakunina, who wrote The Body (1933) and Love Among Six. I’m in the wrong field. I would like to work on this and I’ve got my Baltic modernism project too, and I need Russian, Latvian, and Estonian, really. Recently I realized … More Ekaterina V. Bakunina

The latest book I’ve recycled is John Polt’s translation of Calvert Casey’s stories, with an introduction by Ilan Stavans, inscribed to my father. I recycled it because the spine was faced and I couldn’t see it in the shelf, and because then, when in the car, bleach from a leaking bottle got on it. I … More Calvert Casey and John Polt

I can now get electronically, or have in books: Alcibíades, Mirla. On Mariátegui, Amauta, vanguardias (article)Espejo Asturrizaga, Juan. César Vallejo. Itinerario del hombreHiggins, James. César Vallejo en su poesía (1989). (I liked Higgins when I finally met him as a person, and this seems like a good book)Monguió, Luis. César Vallejo (vida, obra, antología)Ortega, Julio. … More Vallejo Recycling