a few favorite books

In the American Grain, by William Carlos Williams

Fictive Certainties, by Robert Duncan

Nine Gates, by Jane Hirshfield

A New Theory for American Poetry, by Angus Fletcher

Studies in Classic American Literature, by D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, by Walter Pater
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democratic Vistas, by Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
Vita Nuova, by Dante Alighieri
The Odyssey, by Homer

Poetry as Survival, by Gregory Orr

Call Me Ishmael, by Charles Olson

On Grief and Reason, by Joseph Brodsky

Less Than One, by Joseph Brodsky

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, by Lewis Hyde

Trickster Makes this World, by Lewis Hyde

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Dark Wood to White Rose:Journey and Transformation in Dante's Divine Comedy, by Helen M. Luke

The Figure of Beatrice, by Charles Williams

"Conversation on Dante," by Osip Mandelstam

Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis, by Norman O. Brown

Love's Body, by Norman O. Brown

Life against Death, by Norman O. Brown

Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry, by Owen Barfield

The Rediscovery of Meaning, by Owen Barfield
The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell
The Cosmological Eye, by Henry Miller
The Wisdom of the Heart, by Henry Miller

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Selected Letters, by Emily Dickinson

Collected Poems, by Langston Hughes
Collected Poems, Dylan Thomas
Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot
The Book of Ephraim, by James Merrill
Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters

In Praise of Shadows, by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters, by Annie Dillard
Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
The Web and the Rock, by Thomas Wolfe
You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe
Report to Greco, by Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis
Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
My Side of the Mountain Trilogy, by Jean Craighead George

Madeline, by Ludwig Betelmans
The Adventures of Tintin, by Georges Remi
Curious George, by H.A. Rey, Margret Rey
The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf