Recommended Reading

Books recommended by Beth include:

POETRY: CONTEMPORARY WAXING & WANING
• Floating a Full Boat: Poems & Photography by Anne M. Hicks
• Punching Through the Egg of Space by Richard Allen Taylor
• Courage of Straw by Robert Abbate
• Keep and Give Away: Poems by Susan Meyers
• The Dollmaker’s Ghost by Larry Levis
• Wildwood Flower by Kathryn Stripling Byer
• M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A by A. Van Jordan
• Sweet Confluence by Susan Ludvigson
• Mirror Light by Steve Lautermilch
• The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
• The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
• The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future by D. Christopher Davis
• The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas by Cathy Smith Bowers
• Something to Read on the Plane by Richard Allen Taylor
• Hard Evidence by Timothy Liu
• The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
• Ariel and Daddy and Other Poems:Ariel Revised Edition by Sylvia Plath
• Family Gathering by Fred Chappell.
• The Elegance of the Ungraspable: Selected Poems From Four Decades by Don Magers.

PHOTOGRAPHY: A HEART FULL
• Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe
• Ansel Adams: Images of the American West by Richard Wrigley, ed.
• Georgia O’Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers by Nicholas Callaway, ed.
• Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places by Eric Peter Nash, ed.
• Photographs of a Lifetime: An Aperture Monograph by Dorothea Lange
• Quotations in Nudes by Wilhelm W. Reinke
• Ancient America by David Muench
• Imogen! Imogen Cunningham Photographs 1910-1973

PROSE: PASSION SIDEWAYS
• moonShine review, Editors Anne Hicks, Beth Cagle Burt, Leslie Rupracht, and Claire Armstrong.
• Scatterred, Smothered, and Covered by Bob Strother
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
• James Joyce The Dead:Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism by David R. Schwarz, ed.
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• You Should Get That Looked At by S. Craig Renfroe, Jr.
• Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen

POETRY ANTHOLOGIES FOR THE SOUL
•Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets by Lisa Zerkle, Richard Allen Taylor, & Beth Cagle Burt, eds.
• The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry by J.D. McClatchy, ed.
• Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry by Leonard Schwartz, Joseph Donahue, & Edward Foster, eds.
• Contemporary American Poetry by A Poulin, Jr. & Michael Waters
• The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997 by Harold Bloom and David Lehman,eds.
• On the Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists by Thomas Sayer Ellis and Joseph Lease, eds.
• ONLY CONNECT: The Charlotte Writers’ Club Anthology, Vol. 3, by Lisa Williams Kline, ed.

INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDES FOR EVERY POET
• How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love With Poetry by Edward Hirsch
• Spinning Words into Gold: A Hands-on Guide to the Craft of Writing by Maureen Ryan Griffin
• A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
• Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Reading and Writing Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver
• The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky
• Proof and Theories: Essays on Poetry by Louise Gluck
• Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody by Charles O. Hartman
• Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms by Philip Dacey & David Jauss, eds.
• Sounds and Form in Modern Poetry by Harvey Gross & Robert McDowell
• The Flexible Lyric by Ellen Bryant Voigt
• The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms by Ron Padgett, ed.

INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDES FOR EVERY WRITER
• Spinning Words into Gold: A Hands-on Guide to the Craft of Writing by Maureen Ryan Griffin
• Turning Life into Fiction by Robin Hemley
• Double Room: A Journal of Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction by Peter Conners and Mark Tursi, eds.(currently offline)
• A Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing by Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff
• A Glossary of Literature Terms by M.H. Abrams
• Strunk and White: The Elements of style by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
• Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature