Recommended Books on Buddhism, History, Social Commentary and Meditation

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The Revolutionary Art of Happiness</STRONG>   Sharon Salzberg </p> <p style="margin-top:0;"><STRONG>Meditation in Action </STRONG> Chogyam Trungpa</p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>   <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" ALIGN=RIGHT><A NAME="Quick_Links_2"></A><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#cccccc" ALIGN=CENTER><B>Other Aspects of Buddhist Teachings and Practice</B></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><STRONG>The Faith to Doubt</STRONG>  Stephen Batchelor</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>For A Future to be Possible </STRONG>  Thich Nhat Hanh. <EM>Essays on the Five Buddhist Precepts </EM></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Living Buddhist Masters </STRONG>  Jack Kornfield</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Coming Back to Life</STRONG>  Joanna Macy Practices to Reconnect our Life, Our World </p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Mind of Clover</STRONG>  Robert Aitken</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;"><STRONG>Moon in a Dewdrop</STRONG>  Dogen<br> <strong>Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil </strong> Stephen Batchelor <br> <strong>A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack</strong> David Loy <br> <strong>Bodhisattva Archetypes </strong> Taigen Daniel Leighton <br> </p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>   <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" ALIGN=RIGHT><A NAME="Quick_Links_3"></A><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#cccccc" ALIGN=CENTER><B>Overview of Buddhist History and Teaching</B></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><blockquote> <p style="margin-top:0;"><STRONG>What the Buddha Taught  </STRONG> Wapola Rahula<BR> <STRONG>Buddhism: An Outline of Teachings and Schools</STRONG>  Hans Schuman<BR> <STRONG>The Buddhist Religion</STRONG>  Richard Robinson<BR> <STRONG>The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching</STRONG>  Thich Nhat Hanh</p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>   <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" ALIGN=RIGHT><A NAME="Quick_Links_4"></A><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#cccccc" ALIGN=CENTER><B>Sutras and Other Texts</B></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0"><STRONG>In The Buddha's Words. An Anthology from the Pali Cannon. </STRONG>Bhikkhu Bodhi <STRONG><br> Anapanasati Sutta (Mindfulness of Breathing)</STRONG>  Breathe You Are Alive<BR> <STRONG>Satipattana Sutta (Four Establishments of Mindfulness)  </STRONG>Transformation and Healing<BR> <STRONG>Theramano & Bhaddekaratta Suttas (On the Better Way to Live Alone)  </STRONG>Our Appointment with Life<BR> <STRONG>The Heart Sutra  </STRONG>The Heart of Understanding<BR> <STRONG>The Diamond Sutra  </STRONG>The Diamond That Cuts through Illusion<br> <strong>Sutra of Hui Neng </strong>Thomas Cleary <BR> <STRONG>A Guide To The Bodhisattva's Way of Life</STRONG>  Shantideva's Bodhisattvacharyavatara. Trans. Bachelor or Wallace <BR> <STRONG>Manifestation of the Tathagata  </STRONG> (a translation and commentary on the chapter of the same name from the Avatamsaka Sutra) Chen.<br> <strong>Majjhima Nikaya. Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha</strong>Trans. Bhikku Ñanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi <br> <strong>Samyutta Nikaya. Connected Discourses of the Buddha </strong>Trans. Bhikkhu Bodhi <br> <strong>Digha Nikaya. Longer Discourses of the Buddha </strong>Trans TW Rhys Davids </p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>   <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" ALIGN=RIGHT><A NAME="Quick_Links_5"></A><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#cccccc" ALIGN=CENTER><B>Scholarly Books on Buddhism</B></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><STRONG>Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis </STRONG>   David Kalupahana<br> <strong>Ethics in Early Buddhism </strong>David Kalupahana <STRONG><br> Mutual Causality in Buddhism an General Systems Theory  </STRONG>Joanna Macy<BR> <STRONG>Buddhist Thought In India </STRONG>  Edward Conze<BR> <STRONG>The Buddhist Teaching of Totality  </STRONG>(Hua Yen/Avatamsaka) Chang<BR> <STRONG>Mind Only </STRONG>  Wood </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;"> <STRONG>Psychological Attitudes of Early Buddhist Philosophy </STRONG>  Govinda <br> <strong>A Buddhist Kaleidoscope: Essays of th Lotus Sutra</strong> Ed. Gene Reeves <br> <strong>The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way. Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika </strong>Trans and Commentary Jay Garfield <br> </p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>   <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" ALIGN=RIGHT><A NAME="Quick_Links_6"></A><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC" ALIGN=RIGHT><div align="center"><strong>Sufism and Islam </strong></div></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" ALIGN=RIGHT><div align="left"></div></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" ALIGN=RIGHT><div align="left"> <blockquote> <p><strong>Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet </strong>Karen Armstrong<br> <strong>Mystical Dimensions of Islam </strong>Annemarie Schimmel<br> <strong>Rumi's World</strong> Annemarie Schimmel<br> <strong>Rending The Veil. Literal and Poetic Translations of Rumi</strong> Shamram Shiva<br> <strong>No God But God</strong> Reza Aslan <br> <strong>Ibn al' Arabi. The Bezels of Wisdom </strong>R.W.J. Austin<br> <strong>Ibn al' Arabi. A Sufi Manual on Retreat </strong>Jili, al-Jerrahi, Harris<br> </p> </blockquote> </div></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" ALIGN=RIGHT><A NAME="Quick_Links_7"></A><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#cccccc" ALIGN=CENTER><B>Non-Violence, Engaged Spiritual Practice</B></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><blockquote> <p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>All Men Are Brothers </STRONG>Mahatma Gandhi<STRONG><br> Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace</STRONG> V. Geetha<STRONG><br> Nonviolence. 25 lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea </STRONG>Mark Kurlanski<br> <strong>Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism</strong> by David Cortright<STRONG><br> The No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace </STRONG>Helen Ware<STRONG> <br> Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace </STRONG>Vandana Shiva<STRONG> <br> Seeds of Peace </STRONG>  Sulak Sivaraksa <br> <strong>Conflict, Culture, Change. Engaged Buddhism in a globolizing world</strong>Sulak Sivaraksa <BR> <STRONG>Social Face of Buddhism </STRONG>  Ken Jones <BR> <STRONG>World as Lover, World as Self </STRONG>  Joanna Macy<BR> <STRONG>Dharma Rain. Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism </STRONG>  Kaza and Kraft <BR> <STRONG>Buddhism After Patriarchy </STRONG>  Rita Gross <BR> <STRONG>Dharma Gaia </STRONG> Alan Hunt Badiner</p> <p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Joining Hands</STRONG>  Roger Gotlieb.  Politics and Religion Together for Social Change</p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><p align="right" id="Quick_Links_8" name="Quick_Links_8"><A NAME="Quick_Links_8" id="Quick_Links_8"></A><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></p></TD> </TR>    <TR> <TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#cccccc" ALIGN=CENTER><B>Diversity, Cultural Identities, Unlearning Racism </B></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><blockquote> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><STRONG> White Like Me. Reflections on Race from A Priviledged Son</STRONG> Tim Wise <STRONG> <br> All God's Children </STRONG>Fox Butterfield <STRONG> <br> Colonize This! </STRONG> Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism ed. Hernandez & Rehman</p> <p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Borderlands/La Frontera </STRONG>Gloria Anzaldúa <strong><br> Essays  </strong>June Jordan </p> <p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>All About Love  </STRONG> bell hooks <BR> <STRONG>Killing Rage  </STRONG> bell hooks </p> <p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;"><strong>Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians</strong> by Ward Churchill <strong><br> Orientalism</strong> by Edward Said<BR> <STRONG>A Little Matter of Genocide  </STRONG>Ward Churchill. Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present<BR> <STRONG>The Colonizer's Model of the World  </STRONG> J. M. Blaut. Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History<BR> <STRONG>Walking with the Wind  </STRONG> John Lewis. A Memoir of the Civil Rights movement</p> <p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Martin Lither King</STRONG>  Speeches and Sermons</p> <p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Malcolm X  </STRONG>Autobiography</p> <p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;"><strong>In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528- 1990</strong>  by Quintatrd Taylor <BR> <STRONG>The Cornell West Reader  </STRONG> Cornell West <BR> <STRONG>Sister Outsider  </STRONG>Audre Lorde <br> <strong>Readings for Diversity and Social Justice</strong> Various editors (Chapter 5) <BR> </p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><p align="right" id="Quick_Links_9" name="Quick_Links_9"><A NAME="Quick_Links_9" id="Quick_Links_9"></A><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></p></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC"><div align="center"><strong>Gender and Queer </strong></div></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><blockquote> <p style="margin-top:0;"><STRONG>Transgender Studies Reader</STRONG> Stryker and Whittle (NEW) <br> <STRONG>Genderqueer </STRONG>Nestle, Howell, and Wilchins<br> <STRONG>Transgender Warriors  </STRONG> Leslie Feinberg. Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman<br> <STRONG>Speaking Sex to Power  </STRONG>Pat Califia<br> <strong>Sex Changes </strong>Pat Califia<br> <strong>Pomosexuals Carol </strong>Quwwn and Lawrence Schimel<br> <strong>S/HE</strong> Minnie Bruce Pratt<br> <strong>Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures </strong>Sabrina Petra Ramet <br> <strong>Women with Moustaches and Men without Beards </strong>Afsaneh Najmabadi <br> <strong>Woman Native Other</strong> Trinh T. Minh-Ha <br> <STRONG>Borderlands/La Frontera </STRONG>Gloria Anzaldúa <strong></strong> <br> <STRONG>Sister Outsider  </STRONG>Audre Lorde <br> <strong>What Makes a Man</strong> Rebecca Walker </p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><div align="right"><A NAME="Quick_Links_10" id="Quick_Links_10"></A><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></div></TD> </TR>    <TR> <TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#cccccc" ALIGN=CENTER><B>Environmental, Deep Ecology</B></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><blockquote> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><STRONG>Having Faith  </STRONG>Sandra Steingraber. An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood<BR> <STRONG>Towards A Transpersonal Ecology  </STRONG> Warwick Fox <BR> <STRONG>Woman and Nature</STRONG> Susan Griffin <BR> <STRONG>The Spell of the Sensuous </STRONG>  David Abram </p> <p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>The Environmental Justice Reader </STRONG>Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, Rachel Stein</p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>   <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" ALIGN=RIGHT><a name="Quick_Links_11" id="Quick_Links_11"></a><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#cccccc" ALIGN=CENTER><B>Political Analysis, Economic Justice etc.</B></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><STRONG> The Great War for Civilization. The Conquest of the Middle East </STRONG>Robert Fisk<STRONG></STRONG><STRONG><br> Power Politics  </STRONG> Arundhati Roy. Globalization and privatization trample social justice and a democratic future<BR> <STRONG>A People's History of the United States</STRONG>  Howard Zinn <BR> <STRONG>Pedagogy of the Oppressed </STRONG>  Paulo Freire <BR> <STRONG>Understanding Power </STRONG>  Noam Chomsky <BR> <STRONG>Questions and Swords </STRONG>  as told by Sucommandante Marcos. Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution<BR> <STRONG>Memory of Fire </STRONG>  Eduardo Galleano. A lyrical peoples' history of the Americas in three volumes <BR> <STRONG>10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World Bank  </STRONG> Kevin Danaher <BR> <STRONG>In the Presence of Fear</STRONG>  Wendell Berry <BR> <STRONG>Blood Rites </STRONG>   Barbara Ehrenreich. Origins and History of the Passions of War </p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People </STRONG>  John Conroy. Torture and denial.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning</STRONG>  Chris Hedges (Highly Recommended)<br> </p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>   <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" ALIGN=RIGHT><a name="Quick_Links_12" id="Quick_Links_12"></a><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="#cccccc" ALIGN=CENTER><P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><B>Miscellaneous Writing, Commentary etc.</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Dharma from different angles</P></TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR>  <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <STRONG>Widening Circles</STRONG>  Joanna Macy. A spiritual memoir from activist, scholar, and teacher Joanna Macy. <BR> <STRONG>Fugitive Pieces  </STRONG>Ann Michaels. A poet's incredible first novel. </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><STRONG>The Zapatista Reade</STRONG>r  ed. Tom Hayden </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><STRONG>The Practice of the Wild</STRONG>  Gary Snyder </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><STRONG>Goat Walking</STRONG>  Jim Corbett </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><STRONG>Grandfather</STRONG>   Tom Brown Jr </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><STRONG>Becoming Native to This Place</STRONG>  Wes Jackson </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><STRONG>Another Turn of the Crank</STRONG>  Wendell Berry </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><STRONG>The Year 1, Global Process Work</STRONG>  Arnold Mindell </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><STRONG>Form, Substance and Difference  </STRONG>essay by Gregory Bateson (in Steps to an Ecology of Mind)</p> <p style="margin-top:0;"><STRONG>I Don't Want to Talk About It </STRONG>  Terrence Real. Overcoming the secret legacy of male depression</p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><DIV ALIGN="right"><A NAME="Quick_Links_13" id="Quick_Links_13"></A><A HREF="#Return_to_top">Return To Top</A></DIV></TD> </TR>    <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#cccccc"><DIV ALIGN="center"><B>Literature and Poetry</B></DIV></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><STRONG> <em>. . . just a few things recently on our mind . . . </em><br> <br> Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus </STRONG>trans Barrow and Macy<br> <strong>Let Me Tell You Where I've Been. New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora</strong> Karim <STRONG><br> everything yearned for </STRONG>Manhae's Poems of Love and Yearning <STRONG><br> The Poet's Dante  </STRONG> Twentieth Century Responses to Dante ed. Peter Hawkins, Rachel Jacoff</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Constantine Cavafy  </STRONG> Collected Poems trans. Keely and Sherrard</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Kissing God Goodbye</STRONG>  Poems June Jordan</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Odes of Horace</STRONG>  trans. David Ferry</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>War Music  </STRONG>Christopher Logue's Account of Homer</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><STRONG>Open Closed Open</STRONG>  Poems. Yehuda Amiichai</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;"><STRONG>Crystals of the Unforeseen</STRONG>  Poems. Lyn Coffin </p> <p>some human lyric poet songbirds of the twentieth century whose work embodies the Dharma in the most basic way:</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0;">Pablo Neruda</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Federico Garcia Lorca</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Anna Akhmatova</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Antonio Machado</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Eugene Montale</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Marina Tsvetayeva</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Jack Spicer</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Frank O'Hara</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Nanao Sakaki</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Audre Lorde</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Osip Mandelstam</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Denise Levertov</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">W. H. Auden</p> <p style="margin-top: 0;">Joseph Brodsky</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0;">and before the twentieth century . . . </p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Keats</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Whitman</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Blake</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Thomas Hardy (a most underrated poet) </p> <p style="margin-top: 0;">Dante . . . </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0;">you can add your own to the list . . . </p> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#cccccc"> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><DIV ALIGN="center"><span class="style4 style5">Please support your local independent bookstores! <BR> <A HREF="http://www.newpages.com/NPGuides/bookstores.htm" TARGET="_blank">www.newpages.com guide to Independent Bookstores</A><br> also see <a href="../whatsnew/content_recentreading.html">Recent Reading</a> </span></DIV></TD> </TR>  </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>