THE BOOKS THAT WOULD ACCOMPANY ME TO A DESERTED ISLAND, WHERE I WOULD SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE CUT OFF FROM PEOPLE AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS NORMALLY NOT FOUND ON DESERTED ISLANDS:
The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara
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Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979
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Anagrams, by Lorrie Moore
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Self-Help, by Lorrie Moore
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
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Cathedral, by Raymond Carver
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver
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Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote
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A book I made with photocopies of my favorite poems by various poets (cheating, I know!!)
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BOOKS I WISH I’D WRITTEN:
Reasons To Live, by Amy Hempel
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Anagrams, by Lorrie Moore
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Self-Help, by Lorrie Moore
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Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion
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Cat’s Eye, by Margaret Atwood
-Lucia
Oh yes, a baby on one hip and a book in the opposite hand, that’s the way a see you. And of course you are on a desert island. I think the baby has a book in her hand too. I am squinting but…yes… she does.