Favorite Books:
A 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
• Bottum, J, THE FALL AND OTHER POEMS
• Cairns, Scott, PHILOKALIA
• Cording, Robert, AGAINST CONSOLATION
• Claudel, Paul, KNOWING THE EAST
• Cooley, Peter, SACRED CONVERSATIONS
• Craig, David, THE HIVE OF THE SAINTS
• Crashaw, Richard, THE COMPLETE POEMS OF RICHARD CRASHAW
• Daniels, Kate, FOUR TESTIMONIES
• Dickinson, Emily, THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
• 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
• Hopkins, Gerard Manley, POEMS
• 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, CONSTANCE
• 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
• McCann, Janet, LOOKING FOR BUDDHA IN THE BARBED-WIRE GARDEN
• Meynell, Alice, THE POEMS OF ALICE MEYNELL
• Miller, Vassar, ONIONS AND ROSES
• Moore, Marianne, COLLECTED POEMS
• Murray, Les, CONSCIOUS & VERBAL
• Norris, Kathleen, JOURNEY
• Pollard, Sr. Miriam Pollard, NEITHER BE AFRAID (though the teacher swamps the art here)
• Pound, Ezra, his translations
• 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 INCHES
  
• 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
• Yeats, William Butler, LAST POEMS
• Zagajewski, Adam, WITHOUT END