books i love
In a stack:
Raymond Carver: All of Us
Rilke: Ahead of All Parting
Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet
Rilke: On Love and Other Difficulties
Michelle Tea: The Beautiful
EE Cummings: Selected Poems
Radciffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
Cheers.
ooohhh those look interesting. i'll have to check them out. thanks!
Posted by:francie | March 29, 2008 at 07:23 PM
I love Raymond Carver. Underwriting is such an underrated skill. (And Robert Altman's "Short Cuts," based on his stories, is one of my favorite movies.)
Posted by:east side bride | March 29, 2008 at 08:05 PM
When I ended high-school, my philosophy teacher gave me an excerpt from Rilke's "On Love and Other Difficulties", and I remember it to this day...
Posted by:Anita | March 29, 2008 at 08:10 PM
Were there sitll babblaars inthe tin? Because it is a delicious little treat!
Posted by:mijk | March 30, 2008 at 05:22 AM
beautiful! I'm a book collector of the worst kind, so my books are not nearly so neatly stacked & framed. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by:ellen | March 30, 2008 at 08:44 AM
It is my firm opinion that any stack of favourite books should include one that has been banned...
The Well of Loneliness - genius.
Mighty fine selection you have there.....
Leah xx
Posted by:Hyena In Petticoats | March 30, 2008 at 09:47 AM
looks like a Rilke lover--i have his Selected Poetry on the table now (Steven Mitchell translation)... he is one of the greatest writers/teachers... he trembles almost as if he were not of this world, and not of the misted intelligence, either.
Posted by:mansuetude | March 30, 2008 at 11:21 AM
glad to see letters to a young poet up there. [:
Posted by:eunice | March 31, 2008 at 01:05 AM
I have a very old copy of The Well of Lonliness (a favourite of mine) that I brought in a little crooked bookshop in Rye just a few doors down from where Radclyffe lived. I'll always treasure it. It's travelled all over with me until ending up here in New Zealand.
Posted by:alison | April 03, 2008 at 12:46 PM