Favorite Poetry Books:
Emily Dickinson: "Complete Poems," (edited by Thomas H. Johnson)
Kabir: "The Kabir Book," (versions by Robert Bly)
Thomas Merton: "Selected
Poems," (edited by Mark van Doren)
Pablo Neruda: "The Captain's Verses," (translated by Donald D. Walsh)
Pablo Neruda: "The Book of Questions," (translated by William O'Daly)
Sharon Olds: "The Dead and The Living"
Wilfred Owen: "Collected Poems," (edited by Cecil Day Lewis)
Dan Pagis: "Variable Directions," (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
Francis Ponge: "The Voice of Things," (translated by Beth Archer)
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Selected Poetry," (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
Rainer Maria Rilke: "The Book of Hours," (translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)
Jelaluddin Rumi: "The Essential Rumi," (translated by Coleman Barks and John Moyne)
Jelaluddin Rumi: "Night and Sleep," (translated by Coleman Barks and Robert Bly)
Mark Strand: "Reasons for Moving/Darker"
Rabindranath Tagore: "Fireflies"
David Whyte: "The House of Belonging"
Favorite Plays:
Brian Friel: "Aristocrats"
Henrik Ibsen: "Peer Gynt"
Terrence McNally: "Frankie and Johnny in The Clair de Lune"
Edmond Rostand: "Cyrano de Bergerac"
William Shakespeare: "Hamlet"
William Shakespeare: "Much Ado About Nothing"
William Shakespeare: "Richard III"
Tom Stoppard: "Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
Thornton Wilder: "Our Town"
Tennessee Williams: "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof"
Influential Books:
Pema Chodron: "When Things Fall Apart"
Natalie Goldberg: "Long Quiet Highway"
Thich Nhat Hanh: "The Heart of Understanding"
Etty Hillesum: "An Interrupted Life"
Harold Kushner: "When Bad Things Happen To Good People"
Alice Miller: "The Drama of The Gifted Child"
Stephen Mitchell (translator): "The Gospel According to Jesus"
John Muir: "Wilderness Essays"
Joseph Niehardt: "Black Elk Speaks"
Elaine Pagels: "The Gnostic Gospels"
Brenda Ueland: "If You Want To Write"
Favorite Links and Websites:
Astronomy:
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Astronomical Images and Astronomical History Images posted daily.
Hubble Space Telescope: Images from the Hubble Space Telescope posted monthly.
Earth At Night: An image of Earth from the International Space Station at night.
National Optical Astronomy Observatory: The gallery includes pictures taken with the facilities of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, and also pictures of their telescopes, instruments and history.
NASA: Kennedy Space Center This link will show information about the latest Space Shuttle missions.
NASA: Earth Observatory: This web page includes a gallery of photographs of Earth taken from Space.
NASA: Visible Earth: A gallery of images from the Terra Satellite.
NASA: Mars 2001 Odyssey: This web page includes a gallery of photographs of the Mars Global Surveyor Mission
Cetaceans:
Whales On The Net: Includes a wonderful gallery of cetacean photographs and links.
Movies:
Music:
Indiana University Music Library: A searchable online resource for information about classical music, including composer links.
Women In Music: An online resource for information about women classical music composers.
Opera:
Metropolitan Opera: Including links to other opera websites.
Opera Libretto Homepage: An online resource for commonly performed opera libretti.
Opera News Online: The opera magazine online.
Opera Glass: An online resource of operas and their composers.
Shakespeare:
Oxford Shakespeare: An online searchable Shakespearean quote database.
Writing:
Websters Dictionary and Thesaurus
Bartleby's: An online searchable resource for text of quotes, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and references.
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