If you've known me for a while, you may noticed some poems, books and essays that I mention quite frequently as my source of inspiration. These recurring pieces have substantially influenced my perception of the world and inveigled my writing choices, so I like to consider them my personal anthology.¹ I decided to dedicate this page to organise them and give them their very deserved acknowledgments.
・ Berry, Wendell. The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems.
・ Clifton, Lucille. The Book of Light.
・ Glück, Louise. Meadowlands.
・ Glück, Louise. The Wild Iris.
・ Glück, Louise. Winter Recipes from the Collective.
・ Gregg, Linda. All of it Singing.
・ Gregg, Linda. Chosen by the Lion.
・ Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
・ Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
・ Lispector, Clarice. Near to the Wild Heart.
・ Lispector, Clarice. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures.
・ Oliver, Mary. A Thousand Mornings.
・ Oliver, Mary. Dream Work.
・ Oliver, Mary. Devotions: Selected Poems.
・ Oliver, Mary. Upstream: Selected Essays.
・ Orr, Gregory. Poetry as Survival.
・ Pessoa, Fernando. The Book of Disquiet.
・ Pessoa, Fernando. Poems of Fernando Pessoa.
1. Anthology, Noun. (an·thol·o·gy). A collection of artistic works that have a similar form or subject, often those considered to be the best; A collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art and literature.