After our friday faculty meeting I found a new package happily sitting and waiting for me in the office. Hello puppy, and in it were:
46. Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems (Northwestern UP)
47. J.M.Coetzee, Inner Workings (Viking)
48. Vikas Swarup, Q & A, (Black Swan)
All of them look so intriguing but alas, I don't foresee a free time for some time to come. Tant pis! 47 is prefaced by Derek Attridge. I'll probably read that part on the train home.
Then in the evening at the book launching I received a copy of the book designer Shun'ichi Mamura's first collection of haikus.
49. 間村俊一『鶴の鬱』（角川書店）
This, I tell you, is a masterpiece! It's so exhilarating... lovely, funny, and striking.
