>As a slight digression of subject, I'd be interested to hear what people are
>reading at present.

I'm a scatty and highly distractible reader, not unknown to have
taken over ten years to 'finish' a book, so I have to do some
free-style interpretation of "reading at present" to be able to
answer in less than a megabyte. So:

Saree Makdisi: William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790's
(this is, theoretically, my mainstay since June: the one I want to
get back to and finish and start again, along with the Blake texts;
the best account of the radical nature of both Blake's poetry and his
politics I've yet encountered)

Louis A Sass: Madness and Modernism (jerked back to this again by
Philip Nikolayev's questions a few months back about poetry &
psychology; I use it as an inverted compendium of recommendations -
if Sass says an author is nuts, I tend to buy beg borrow or steal the
book and treasure it; through him I discovered De Chirico's writings,
Hebdomeros and the Autobiography especially)

Daniel Paul Schreber: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (from memory, too
lazy to walk up three floors and get it; first put onto it by Freud's
case study, confirmed in my interest by Sass; got a lovely cheap
Americam paperback a few months back to replace my old photocopy)

Allan Ingram (ed): Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century, A
Reader (picked it up remaindered; some extraordinary stuff excerpted
in it, for which I intend to trace the complete texts)

Marc McCutcheon: Descriptionary, A Thematic Dictionary
Ross Eckler: Making the Alphabet Dance, Recreational Wordplay (both
of these picked up remaindered, to help me understand the various
ways in which wordlists might be constructed [as an alternative to
the rudimentary lists of phonetically rhymed words touted by the
Formalists (sic)])

Peter Larkin: Terrain Seed Scarcity (just spending time with it,
hoping osmosis might be a mode of understanding)

Steve McCaffery: Seven Pages Missing [2 Vols] (because I got / get
such a kick from his Imagining Language, I'm browsing through these)

Barry MacSweeney: Wolf Tongue (been living with a lot of this via a
xerox of the Paladin for a couple of years; now just glad to have
such amazing work between covers)

Tim Robinson's books on Connemara, the Aran Islands, cartography,
fictions, et al.

. . . and when I retrieve Tom Raworth's Serial Biography and Visible
Shivers, I'll be packing them for my travels.

Trevor