What Was on the "Bookshelf"

Tonight I decided to clear the horizontal bookshelf that my bed invariably becomes. It's a ritual to do with sheet washing. It always amazes how fast the books and journals collect, like snow flurries when you go to bed that coalesce into drifts against the door by morning. 

Here's the inventory of what was "on the shelf" (in the random order in which I pulled them off and stacked them on the floor, from top to bottom):

Source by Mark Doty

Scattered Chapters  by Baron Wormser

West Branch Spring/Summer 2008

Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr

The Spoon River Poetry Review 2008

The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

Fire to Fire by Mark Doty  . . . now the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR POETRY 2008!!

The Resurrection Trade by Leslie Adrienne Miller

The Bellevue Literary Review Vol. 8 No. 1

Reign of Snakes by Robert Wrigley

Selected Poems by Derek Walcott

The Poetry Home Repair Manual  by Ted Kooser

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie

Selected Poems by Robert Lowell

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Gulf Coast Vol. 20 No. 2

Eight American Poets  edited by Joel Conarroe