July 5, 2009

Catholic Reading List


Poetry:
  • Alighieri, Dante, THE DIVINE COMEDY
  • Auden, W. H., FOR THE TIME BEING
  • Akhmatova, Anna, POEMS OF AKHMATOVA
  • Andrews, Tom, HEMOPHELIAC’S MOTORCYCLE
  • Baxter, James K., SELECTED POEMS
  • Berrigan, Daniel THE WORLD FOR WEDDING RING
  • Berry, Wendell, COLLECTED POEMS
  • Blake, William, THE COMPLETE POEMS
  • Cairns, Scott, COMPASS OF AFFECTION
  • Claudel, Paul, KNOWING THE EAST
  • Cooley, Peter, SACRED CONVERSATIONS
  • Cording, Robert, COMMON LIFE
  • Craig, David, MARY'S HOUSE, GATHERING AT THE RIVER
  • Crashaw, Richard, THE COMPLETE POEMS OF RICHARD CRASHAW
  • Daniels, Kate, FOUR TESTIMONIES
  • Dickinson, Emily, THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
  • Dickson, Mary: EUCHARIST: ENTER THE SACRED WAY
  • Donne, John, THE COMPLETE POETRY AND SELECTED PROSE
  • Eliot, T. S., FOUR QUARTETS
  • Everson, William, THE MASKS OF DROUGHT
  • Frost, Robert, THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST
  • Gioia, Dana, INTERROGATIONS AT NOON
  • Graham, Jorie, THE END OF BEAUTY
  • Heaney, Seamus, SELECTED POEMS
  • Herbert, George, SELECTED POEMS
  • Hill, Geoffrey, CANAAN
  • Hodgen, John, GRACE
  • Hopkins, Gerard Manley, POEMS
  • Howe, Marie, THE KINGDOM OF THE ORDINARY
  • Hudgins, Andrew, SAINTS AND STRANGERS
  • Jacobsen, Josephine, THE SISTERS
  • Jarman, Mark, TO THE GREEN MAN
  • John Paul II, ROMAN TRYPTICH
  • Karr, Mary SINNERS WELCOME (cafeteria Catholic)
  • Kenyon, Jane, COLLECTED POEMS
  • Knoepfle, John, RIVERS INTO ISLAND
  • Lea, Sydney, TO THE BONE
  • Levertov, Denise, THE STREAM AND THE SAPPHIRE
  • Lietz, Bob, STORM SERVICE
  • Maddox, Marjorie, WEEKNIGHTS IN THE CATHEDRAL
  • Mariani, Paul, SALVAGE OPERATIONS
  • May, Fr. David, THE PRICE OF SPARROWS
  • McCann, Janet, LOOKING FOR BUDDHA IN THE BARBED-WIRE GARDEN
  • Merton, Thomas, IN THE DARK BEFORE DAWN
  • Meynell, Alice, THE POEMS OF ALICE MEYNELL
  • Miller, Vassar, ONIONS AND ROSES
  • Moore, Marianne, COLLECTED POEMS
  • Murray, Les, THE BIPLANE HOUSES
  • Norris, Kathleen, JOURNEY
  • O'Donnell, Angela, WAITING FOR ECSTASY
  • Pollard, Sr. Miriam Pollard, NEITHER BE AFRAID (though the teacher swamps the art here)
  • Pound, Ezra, his translations
  • Riley, Michael, CIRCLING THE STONES
  • Rilke, Rainer Maria, DUINO ELEGIES
  • St. John of the Cross, POEMS
  • Samaras, Nicholas, HANDS OF THE SADDLEMAKER
  • Sasanov, Catherine, ALL THE BLOOD TETHERS
  • Serpas, Martha, THE DIRTY SIDE OF THE STORM (“rebel” Catholic)
  • Siegel, Robert A PENTECOST OF FINCHES
  • Stafford, William, A SCRIPTURE OF LEAVES
  • Stevens, Wallace, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS
  • Thomas, Dylan, COLLECTED POEMS
  • Thompson, Francis, COLLECTED POETRY
  • Tolides, Tryfon, AN ALMOST PURE EMTPY WALKING
  • Traherne, Thomas, POEMS
  • Ursu, Liliana, ANGEL RIDING THE BEAST
  • Wilbur, Richard, NEW & COLLECTED
  • Wilkinson, Claude, JOY IN THE MORNING
  • Williams, William Carlos, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, VOL. I & II
  • Wright, Franz, WALKING TO MARTHA’S VINEYARD, GOD'S SILENCE
  • Yeats, William Butler, THE POEMS OF W. B. YEATS
  • Zagajewski, Adam, WITHOUT END