Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Vincent Van Gogh
BOOKS THAT HAVE MATTERED IN MY LIFE
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Native Son by Richard Wright
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
You Have Seen Their Faces by Erskine Caldwell & Margaret Bourke-White
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Followers
Calm Intensity by Ford Smith
Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; So I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
Mary Ellen Mark
“The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.”
Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lang
am trying here to say something about the despised, the defeated, the alienated. About death and disaster, about the wounded, the crippled, the helpless, the rootless, the dislocated. About finality. About the last ditch. - Dorothea Lange
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