Suggested Reading

Works that altered me on a molecular level:

Pictures of a Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Dinners and Nightmares by Diane Di Prima
The Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
Dream Work (but really all her books) by Mary Oliver
The Good Thief by Marie Howe
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Works that might support the reading of Garden of Exile:

The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Leaping Poetry and The Kabir Book by Robert Bly
Staying Put by Scott Russell Sanders
About Looking by John Berger
Open Secret by Rumi (versions by Coleman Barks)
Audubon’s Field Guide to Western Birds
The Dehumanization of Art by Jose' Ortega y Gassett
Fairfield Porter: An American Classic by John T. Spike