Friday, July 27, 2007
From Cover to Cover
Jeannine Hall Gailey Asks:
Which ten books are the books that have inspired the most writing from you? The books you read that you couldn't wait to put down so you could write afterwards? These aren't neccessarily your "favorite" books, but the books that have helped you generate the most new work. If you are a poet, they do not have to all be poetry, they can be fiction, non-fiction, etc.
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Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches - Marvin Harris
1984 -George Orwell
Faust - Goethe
Selected Poems - T.S. Eliot
The Social Construction of Reality - Berger & Luckmann
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
Almost Anything by Aldous Huxley (especially The Devils of Loudon & Brave New World)
The Time of Indifference - Alberto Moravia
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
The Moon & Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
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I had to leave so many books off the list for lack of space -
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Selected Poems- Robert Creeley
Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
Contemporary American Poetry- Poulin and Waters, Editors (this one is cheating, isn't it?)
The Crying of Lot 49- Thomas Pynchon
The Shipping News- Annie Proulx
Welcome to the Monkey House- Kurt Vonnegut
The Prelude- William Wordsworth (not a book, but counts nonetheless)
Anything by Stanley Kunitz
Any good volume of Art History
While not a book, attending a poetry readnig always makes me want to write.
There's my list (I know there are some cheats in there). :)
Nice list! Vonnegut & Kunitz are choices that I could easily have added to my list.
Nice list, Nick. Gailey's a Pacific alumna, btw.
Thanks, I steered clear of listing poetry books & the classics. I'm sure that it pales next to your list.
Nice list, Nick! A little dark...in a good way.
Thanks, Jeanine. BTW, I like your list - especially the Gluck & Atwood choices.... Color me a little dark...in a good way.
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