From the desk of...Levi

Levi's instant desert island books:

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume I
Lillian Morrison, Editor/At the Crack of the Bat: Baseball Poems Compiled by Lillian Morrison
Lee Bennett Hopkins, Editor/Extra Innings: Baseball Poems
Nicholas Dawidoff, Editor/Baseball: A Literary Anthology
Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura, Editors/Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written about the Game
Gail Mazur/Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems
James Schuyler/Collected Poems
Marianne Moore/Complete Poems
Anthony Powell/From a View to a Death
Donald Hall/White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition
Donald Hall/Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sports (Mostly Baseball)
Jim Moore and Natalie Vermilyea/Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat": Background and Characters of Baseball's Most Famous Poem
Vic Gattrell/City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London
Robert Alter, Translator/The Book of Psalms
Guy Davenport/The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays by Guy Davenport

From the desk of...Jenny Davidson

From Jenny: "My desk does not actually have books on it, just papers, I have gathered up one from top of scanner and 4 from bedside, I think this will count, eh?"

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
T.A. Pratt, Blood Engines
Richard Askwith, Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession
Roger Deakin, Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
Joe Friel and Gordon Byrn, Going Long: Training for Ironman-Distance Triathlons

"Funny—it really is a good sampling of my reading habits!"

From the desk of...

...Dizzyhead JMcB:

The New New Journalism, Robert Boynton
What Am I Doing Here, Bruce Chatwin
The Girls Who Saw Everything, Sean Dixon
The Tunnel, William Gass
The Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams
Almonds to Zhoof, Richard Stern
Guide, Dennis Cooper
A Partial List of People to Bleach, Gary Lutz

"I have a big desk--and some of these books seem to be always on it.
Perpetual inspiration!"

Instant Desert Island Books

What books are on your desk right now? These are your desert island books!

To my left I have:

The Case of the Persevering Maltese, Harry Mathews
The Beatles. The Beatles. The Beatles. 100 Hits for All Keyboards (sheet music; this is a book I bought in Korea about 14 years ago; the phoneticized Korean title is "Beatles Memory 100.")
Aubrey's Brief Lives, ed. Oliver Lawson Dick, foreword by Edmund Wilson
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition, transl. Seamus Heaney

A strange batch! (Send your list right now to thedizziesATgmailDOTcom.)

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Dizzyhead Susan sends in this short list:

Likes: ferns, geese, telepathy

Dislikes: the news, telephony