Poem and Picture

Poetry

34) Onyx - Romulo Baquiran
35) Twelve Spanish American Poets - HR Hayes, ed
36) Blood, Tin, Straw - Sharon Olds
37) After the Deafening - Gerard Woodward
38) Ultramarine: Poems - Raymond Carver
39) Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes
40) Living Space: Poems of the Dutch Fiftiers - Peter Glassgold, ed
41) What Have I Ever Lost By Dying? - Robert Bly
42) Honey and Salt - Carl Sandburg
43) The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster - Richard Brautigan

Graphic Novel

44) Marvels - Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross
45) 1602 - Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert
46) The Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
47) Empire - Mark Waid and Barry Kitson
48) Kill Your Boyfriend - Grant Morrison and Philip Bond
49) Supreme Power - J. Michael Straczynski, Gary Frank, and John Sibal
50) The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett

Well, that's it for me. Also read Batman Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli, Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, Batman: Son of the Demon - Mike W. Barr and Jeremy Bingham, Wanted by Mark Millar, JG Jones, and Paul Mounts, plus The Boomer by Marty Asher. Loved all of these save for Carver's poems. Rushdie put a good word in for his poetry, but that didn't convince me. Maybe because his stories are so arresting that I expect much of the same from his lyric. There's most of my year, just like my days. Numbered.

Fiction

Because I'm too lazy to annotate. Here's the fiction list.

Short Fiction
19) Letting Go - Susan Lara
20) Sudden Fiction International - Robert Shaford, James Thomas, eds
21) Short Cuts - Raymond Carver
22) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
23) Emperor of the Air - Ethan Canin
24) Fast Food Fiction - Noelle Q de Jesus, ed
25) Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
26) The Gold-Bug and Other Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
27) Instead of Three Wishes: Magical Short Stories - Megan Whalen Turner
28) I was Born A Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs - Jennifer Fleischner, Melanie Reim

Novels
29) The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
30) Terra Nostra - Carlos Fuentes
31) The Sibyl - Par Lagerkvist
32) Sa Mga Suso ng Liwanag - U Z Eliserio (unpublished)

Plus, for theory, Judith Pintar's The Halved Soul: Retelling the Myths of Romantic Love. Parts of it are reworkings of myth so it may also count on this fiction list. Thirty three then (33).