Goldmine at the used bookstore today:

Margaret Atwood, Power Politics

Alison Hawthorne Deming, Science and Other Poems

Russell Edson, The Tormented Mirror

Maureen Seaton, Furious Cooking

Kimiko Hahn, The Unbearable Heart

Michael Burkard, Pennsylvania Collection Agency

I’m especially excited about having the Atwood book. Her poem

“you fit into me

like a hook into an eye

a fish hook

an open eye”

that begins the collection is one of the first poems that really affected me deeply. I was in high school, and I remember being obsessed with it—I’d scribble it in the covers of my notebooks and I think I even tacked it up in my locker, over my enormous door-length collages of Sharon Stone and Shannen Doherty, near the mirror.