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GREAT BOOKS TO READ

FAVORITES
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - by Annie Dillard
For the Time Being - by Annie Dillard
Teaching a Stone to Talk - by Annie Dillard
The Poetics of Space - by Gaston Bachelard
Shadows, Unlocking Their Secrets from Plato to Our Time - by Robert Casati
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky - By Ellen Meloy
Wanderlust - by Rebecca Solnit
A Field Guide to Getting Lost - by Rebecca Solnit
The Poetics of Space - by Gaston Bachelard
The Power of Myth - by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
The Object Stares Back, On the Nature of Seeing - by James Elkins
On Beauty - by Elaine Scary
Air Guitar -by David Hickey
Cosmology in Antiquity - by M.R. Wright
Ways of Seeing - by John Berger
The Sense of Sight - by John Berger
Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - by Maxine Hong Kingston
Agnes Martin - Writings- edited by HerausgegebenVon Dieter Schwartz
The Places That Scare You - by Pema Chödrön
The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation - by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke - edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell
The Essentail Rumi - translated by Coleman Barks
Jelaluddin Rumi, In the Arms of the Beloved- translated by Jonathan Starr
Rumi, The Glory of Absence - translated by Nevit O. Ergin
Fireflies - by Rabindranath Tagore
Woman Hollering Creek - by Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street - by Sandra Cisneros

ART
Agnes Martin - Writings- edited by Herausgegeben Von Dieter Schwartz
The Poetics of Space - by Gaston Bachelard
On Beauty - by Elaine Scary
Air Guitar -by David Hickey
What Painting Is - by James Elkins
The Object Stares Back, On the Nature of Seeing - by James Elkins
The Sense of Sight - by John Berger
Ways of Seeing - by John Berger
Art & Revolution - by John Berger
The Open Studio, Essays on Art and Aesthetics - by Susan Stewart
Art & Fear, Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking - by David Bayles & Ted Orland
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, A Sourcebook of Artist's writings- edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz
Out From Under Texts by Women Performance Artists- edited by Lenora Champagne
Lives and Works Talks with Women Artists, Volume 2- by Beryl Smith, Joan Arbeiter and Sally Shearer Swenson
Basic Forms, Masters of the Camera - by Bern and Hilla Becher
Success Now for Artists, 2nd Edition - by Renée Phillips
The Complete Guide to New York Art Galleries 6th Edition, The Only Comprehensive Resource of it's Kind-by Renée Phillips
Presentation Power Tools for Fine Artists, 3rd Edition - by Renée Phillips

POETRY
She Had Some Horses - by Joy Harjo
My Wicked Wicked Ways - by Sandra Cisneros
Loose Woman - by Sandra Cisneros
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon - by Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - by Pablo Neruda
Selected Poems of Lorca & Jimenez - by Robert Bly
Selected Poems of Ferderico García Lorca- Edited by Francisco García Lorca
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes-Stories From Latin America - by Thomas Colchie
An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry - edited by Elizabeth Bishop
The Serpents Tongue, Prose Poetry and Art of the New Mexico Pueblos - edited by Nancy Wood
The Essential Rilke - translated by Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke - edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell
Sonnets to Orpheus - by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Prophet - by Kahil Gibrain
The Essentail Rumi - translated by Coleman Barks
Jelaluddin Rumi, In the Arms of the Beloved- translated by Jonathan Starr
Rumi, The Glory of Absence - translated by Nevit O. Ergin
Fireflies - by Rabindranath Tagore
The Palm at the End of the Mind, Selected Poems and a Play - by Wallace Stevens
Selected Poems of E.E. Cummings - by Richard S. Kennedy
Personae, the Shorter Poems - by Ezra Pound
The Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot- by T.S. Eliot

THEOLOGY-SPIRITUALITY
The Places That Scare You - by Pema Chödrön
Start Where You Are, A Guide To Compassionate Living - by Pema Chödrön
When Things Fall Apart, Heart Advice for Difficult Times - by Pema Chödrön
Awaking Loving Kindness - by Pema Chödrön
Turning the Mind into an Ally - by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation - by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Shambhala The Sacred Path of the Warrior - by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
The Nature of Generosity - by William Kentridge
The Toah of Pooh - by Benjamin Hoff
The Prophet - by Kahil Gibrain
The Essential Rumi - translated by Coleman Barks
Jelaluddin Rumi In the Arms of the Beloved - translated by Jonathan Starr
Rumi The Glory of Absence - translated by Nevit O. Ergin
Fireflies, by Rabindranath Tagore
The Sacred and the Profane - by Mircea Elliade
The Power of Myth - by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
Gravity and Grace - by Simone Weil
Waiting for God by - Simone Weil
The Essential Tillich- by F. Forrester Church
The Asian Journals of Thomas Merton - by Thomas Merton
The Great Divorce - by C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory and other Addresses - by C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity - by C.S. Lewis
Life of Pi, A Novel,- by Yann Martel
Spirit Taking Form, Making A Spiritual Practice of Making Art - by Nancy Azara

PSYCHOLOGY/SOCIOLOGY
The Undiscovered Self - by Carl Jung
Man and his Symbols - edited by Carl Jung and M.L. Von Franz, Joseph l. Henderson, Jolande Jacobi, and Aniela Jaffé
The Power of Myth - by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
Life of Pi, A Novel - by Yann Martel
Ishmael - by Daniel Quinn
Notes from the Underground - by Dostoyevsky
No Exit and three other plays - by Jean Paul Sartre

OTHERS
Written on the Body - by Jeanette Winterson
Animal Dreams - by Barbara Kingsolver
Lost in Translation - by Eva Hoffman
The Bread Givers, A struggle between a father of the Old World and a daughter of the New - by Anazia Yezierska

LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - by Julia Alvarez
Woman Hollering Creek - by Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street - by Sandra Cisneros
Loose Woman - by Sandra Cisneros
My Wicked, Wicked Ways - by Sandra Cisneros
Love in the Time of Cholera - by Gabriel García Márques
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - by Julia Alvarez
My Wicked, Wicked Ways - by Sandra Cisneros
Canek, History & Legend of a Maya Hero - by Ermilo Abreu Gomez
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon - by Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - by Pablo Neruda
Selected Poems of Lorca & Jimenez - by Robert Bly
Selected Poems of Ferderico García Lorca - edited by Francisco García Lorca
The Book of Disquiet - by Fernando Pesoa translated by Margaret Costa
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes - Stories From Latin America - by Thomas Colchie
An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry - edited by Elizabeth Bishop

MIDDLE EASTERN LITERATURE
The Prophet - by Kahil Gibrain
The Essentail Rumi - translated by Coleman Barks
Jelaluddin Rumi In the Arms of the Beloved - translated by Jonathan Starr
Rumi The Glory of Absence - translated by Nevit O. Ergin
Fireflies - by Rabindranath Tagore

NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
Black Elk Speaks as told through John G. Neihardt ( Flaming Rainbow) - by Nicholas Black Elk
The Fourth World of the Hopis, The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved In Their Legends and Traditions - by Harold Corlander
Dine´ bahané The Navajo Creation Story - by Paul G. Zolbrod
American Indian Mythology - by Alice Marriott/Carol K. Archly
Dine´ A History of the Navajos - by Peter Iverson
Lakota Belief and Ritual - by James R. Walker
She Had some Horses - by Joy Harjo
The Serpents Tongue, Prose Poetry and art of the New Mexico Pueblos - edited by Nancy Wood
Canek, History & Legend of a Maya Hero - by Ermilo Abreu Gomez