Several years ago I made a list of 15 books, which have shaped
the way I see myself and the world (as if those are two separate entities). I think I would add Ann Carson’s “Eros
the Bittersweet”, and “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” by Paulo Freire to the list
today. Here is the list I made then, no specific order or rank:
The I Ching
Canterbury Tales: Chaucer
The Name of the Rose: Umberto Eco
Howl: Allen Ginsburg
The Book of Nightmares: Galway Kinnell
Tao de Ching: Lao Tzu
Persona: Pound
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Annie Dillard
The Non-Conformist Memorial: Susan Howe
Trilogy: H.D.
Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Poems for the Millenium, Vol 1&2, ed. by J. Rothenberg
After Ikkyu: Jim Harrison
Philisophical Investigations: L. Wittgenstein
Stand on Zanzibar: John Brunner
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