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This webpage is a list of books in my home library in Vancouver, Washington, in 2025. VSCL: Valley Spirit Center Library.
VSCL normally means a paperbound or hardbound copy, mostly purchased used and some new via my Amazon account, e-book Kindle versions so noted.

It is also a list of titles I have enjoyed reading that were borrowed from the Fort Vancouver Regional Library (FVRL), Clark County, Washington (2017-2025); and from (1998-2017) the Tehama County Public Library in Red Bluff, California, or from California State University at Chico.

I read many of these books starting in 1962, and then worked 40 years in libraries, classrooms, and media centers.

Anthologies

The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry. Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley. Grove Press, 1996, 388 pages. VSCL.

Buddhism - Poetry

Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology. Translated and edited by David Hinton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, notes, bibliography, 475 pages. VSCL.

Cloud Hands Blog - Poetry

Concrete Poetry

Cuttings: Haiku and Short Poems. By Michael P. Garofalo.

Exhibits at the Onion Garden

Folk and Fairy Tales. Edited by Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek. 4th Edition. Broadview Press, 2009. Sources, Criticism, bibliography, 411 pages.

Imagist Poetry: An Anthology. Edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover, 1999, 158 pages. VSCL.

Japanese Haiku Masters

Modern American Poetry and Modern British Poetry. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1919, 1962, indexes, 541 pages. VSCL.

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China. Selections and Translated by David Hinton. New Directions, 2005, Notes, 293 pages. VSCL.

Neo-Paganism, Modern Druidry: Poetry, Lore, Practices, Holidays

The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Edited and commentary by Margaret Ferguson, Tim Kendall, and Mary Jo Salter. Sixth Edition. W. W. Norton, 2018, indexes, bibliography, 2038 pages. VSCL.

The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Edited with commentary by David Lehman and John Brehm. Oxford University Press, 2006, indexes, 1200 pages. VSCL.

The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry. Edited by Rita Dove. Penguin, 2011, 656 pages. VSCL.

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The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature. By Louis L. Martz. Yale University Press, 1954, index, 375 pages. VSCL.

Poetry for the Earth. A collection of poems from around the world that celebrates nature. Edited by Sara Dunn with Alan Scholefield. Faucett Columbine, 1991, index, 247 pages. VSCL.

The Portable Beat Reader. Edited by Ann Charters. Penguin, 1992, 645 pages. VSCL.

Pragmatism and American Philosophy: Aesthetics

Shakespeare's Sonnets. Edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. The Arden Shakespeare, 1997, index, 488 pages. VSCL.

The Sonnet: An Anthology. Edited by Robert M. Bender and Charles L. Squier. Washington Square Press, 1985, 428 pages. VSCL.

The Spirit of Gardening Over 3,500 quotes and poems arranged by 250 topics. Online since 2000. Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo.

Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry. Edited by Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo. Indiana University Press, 1975, appendices, 634 pages. VSCL.

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Text Art, Visual/Pattern Poetry

The Thin Curve. The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku. Edited by Jim Kacian. Red Moon Press, 2000, 154 pages. VSCL.

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time. Edited by Katharine Washburn and John S. Major. W. W. Norton, 1998, indexes, 1,338 pages. VSCL.

Zen Buddhist Poetry

Zen Koans Research

Subject Index to 1,975 Zen Koans

Zen Poetry: Bibliography, Links, Resources, Notes

Zen Poetry Selections

Theory, Criticism, Academics
How to Read and Write Poetry

and some works on Art, Art History, Beauty, Imagination, Aesthetics, Tools, Resources n ...

Art and Its Objects. By Richard Wollheim. Cambridge University Press, 2015, 200 pages.

The Bedford Handbook. By Diana Hacker. Fifth Edition. Bedford, St. Martins, 1998, 810+ pages. VSCL.

The Complete Rhyming Dictionary. Edited by Clement Wood. 1991. VSCL.

Concrete Poetry and Text Art

The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems. By Frances Mayes. Harvest Harcourt, 2001, index, 521 pages. VSCL.

How to Read a Poem. By Burton Raffel. New American Library, 1984, index, 260 pages. VSCL.

Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory. By Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle. 5th Edition, 2016. VSCL.

Languages of Art. By Nelson Goodman Hackett Pub. Co., 1976, 296 pages. Online PDF Version, 2020. VSCL (Book). Goodman's Aesthetics!

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms. Strand, Mark and Eavan Boland. New York, W. W. Norton, 2000. General index, author index, glossary, biographies of authors, 366 pages. VSCL.

Metaphors We Live By. By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. University of Chicago Press, 1980, 276 pages. VSCL.

Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts. By Kendall L. Walton. Harvard University Press, 1993, 480 pages.

Cxford Rhyming Dictionary. 2013. VSCL.

The Penguin Pocket Rhyming Dictionary. Penguin, 2005, 503 pages. VSCL.

Philosophy of 'As If.' By Hans Vaihinger. Martino Fine Books, 1925, 2009, 420 pages.

A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry. By Mary Oliver. Harcourt Harvest, 1994, index, 130 pages. VSCL.

The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. By Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux. W. W. Norton, 1997, index, appendices, 284 pages. VSCL.

A Poet's Guide to Poetry. By Mary Kinzie. University of Chicago, 1999, indexes, 561 pages. VSCL.

Teaching Haiku Poetry

Text Art and Concrete Poetry

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art. By Arthur C. Danto. Harvard University Press, 1983. Index, 212 pages. VSCL.

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. By Bruno Bettelheim. Vintage, 1975, 340 pages. VSCL.

Poets

Berry, Wendell. The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry. By Wendell Berry. Selected with an introduction by Paul Kingsnorth. Counterpoint, Reprint Edition, 2019, 368 pages. VSCL.
He lives on a farm in Henry County, Kentucky. I've never made a living off of a farm, having lived in East Los Angeles for 52 years. When we lived in the North Sacramento Valley, near Red Bluff, California (1998-2017), we lived on five acres of land in a rural setting of almond and walnut orchards. We enjoyed gardening, landscaping projects, planted a 125 tree orchard, and related to farmlands in new ways; and both were part-time employees of the Tehama County School District, not making a living as farmers like Wendell Berry. I read Wendell Berry in 1999 and connected with his themes and style.

A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens.

Blyth, Reginald Horace (1898-1964) Many books and essays by R. H. Blyth on Haiku, Zen, and Asian and Western poetry. I have been reading and enjoying R. H. Blyth since my sophomore days in high school.

California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present. Edited by Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost, and Jack Hicks. Great Valley Books, 2003, 640 pages. VSCL.

Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. Little, Brown and Co., 1890, 1960, index, 769 pages. VSCL.

Eliot, Thomas S. Complete Poems and Plays. Faber and Faber, 2004, 608 pages. VSCL.

Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. City Lights, 1959, 57 pages. VSCL.

Ginsberg, Allen. The Essential Allen Ginsberg. Harper, 2015, 448 pages.

Garofalo, Michael Peter. Above the Fog

Garofalo, Michael Peter. Concrete Poetry

Garofalo, Michael Peter. Poetry

Jeffers, Robinson. Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems. Vintage, 1965, 128 pages. VSCL.

Native American Stories, Poems, Sayings, Lore, Languages. Primarily Native Peoples of the Pacific Northwest.

Neruda, Pablo. Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970 (Neruda, Pablo) (English and Spanish Edition). A bilingual edition edited and translated from the Spanish by Ben Belitt. New York, Grove Press, 1974. Bibliography, 431 pages. Little caught my fancy in this collection. VSCL.

Oliver, Mary (1935-2019). New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Beacon Press, 1992, 255 pages. This book of poetry won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and still is one of the best selling books of poetry. VSCL.

Oliver, Mary. New and Selected Poems, Vol. Two. Beacon Press, 2005, 175 pages. VSCL.

Rilke, Rainer Marie. Duino Elegies. Translated by J. B. Leishman and Stephen Spender. W. W. Norton, 1939, 130 pages. VSCL.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859. Introduction and Notes by Robert D. Richardson. Original Art by Lincoln Perry. Bloomsbury, 2016, 116 pages. VSCL.

Roethke, Theodore. The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Anchor Books, 1975, 272 pages. VSCL.

Schnackenberg, Gjertrud. Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992. Straus and Giroux, 2000, 288 pages.

Snyder, Gary. The Gary Snyder Reader. Counterpoint, 2000, 640 pages. VSCL.

Stevens, Wallace. Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose. Edited by Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson. Library of America, 1997, 1030 pages. VSCL.

Watts, Alan

Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: Volume I (1909-1939); Volume II (1939-1962). New Directions, 1986, 583 pages & 551 pages. VSCL.

Williams, William Carlos. Patterson. Revised Edition prepared by Christopher MacGowan. New Directions, 1946, 311 pages. VSCL.

Winters, Yvor. The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters. Edited by R. L. Barch. Introduction by Helen Pinkerton Trimpi. Swallow Press, Ohio University, 1999, 128 pages.

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