Anything I have read since I could read that touched me and made the world more alive through language.
Favorite Books
Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko; Fools Crow, by James Welch, Arctic Dreams, by Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men, by Barry Lopez; A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster; Collected Poems, by C. Milosz; North, etc., by Seamus Heaney. Everything by R.M. Rilke, American Primitive, by M. Oliver,Outside History, by Eavan Boland, among many others.
Favorite Authors
Fred Chappell, Lee Smith, Charles F. Price, Isabel Zuber, Rainer Maria Rilke, Barry Lopez, Czeslaw Milosz, George Eliot, John Keats, and William Wordsworth, Margaret Atwood, Mary Oliver, etc., etc.
What I'm Reading
Posthumous Keats, Another Beauty (Adam Zagajewski), The Spiral Staircase, MacNolia (A. Van Jordan), f