Suggested Reading

Augustine The Confessions

William Gass On Being Blue

Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; the essay "Total Eclipse"

Albert Goldbarth Many Circles

Sven Birkerts The Gutenberg Elegies

Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds

Emily Dickinson

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Many post-war Polish poets: Milosz, Herbert, Swir, Szymborska, Gombrowicz, Wat

Vladimir Nabakov Speak Memory; Lolita

Gerald Stern

Elizabeth Bishop

Wallace Stevens

Theodore Roethke