A reading list Anne Boyer sent me in response to an an email I wrote relating to her some inquiries I had gotten regarding her statements about capitalism and fiction in her interview with Sam Jaffe Goldstein. This is what she said: 

In terms of radical literature, there is so much — some  which faced repression and censure or forced forgetting — like Sanora Babb’s Whose Names are Unknown and Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth — but are worth digging up, and some, the famous kind like the work of Amiri Baraka, Elfriede Jelenik, June Jordan, Mayakovsky, Brecht etc. But one novel that maybe falls in between these fates that I wish everyone could read is Nanni Balestrini’s “We want everything.”  Also Italian, but set at the rise of fascism — Elsa Morante’s “History.” Another - from the US, more utopian - is “The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions” by Larry Mitchell. The list of poets is long, and even longer if I include poets of all languages, but my immediate thoughts for living anglophone poets in radical  traditions are Fred Moten, Ryan Eckes, CA Conrad, and Wendy Trevino. And from the UK, Verity Spott. And still alive to me:  Sean Bonney. This summer I’ve been reading Victor Serge for the first time, along with the second volume of Peter Weiss’ Aesthetics of Resistance.  In both of these, the cars run on fuel.  There is no slick obscuring of the material relations of the world, yet the stars in these works are still as beautiful as stars!  To make the stars ugly would be a lie, too.

No books by Verity Spott are avaible on Bookshop. 

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