Recommended by the author….
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (especially the Calamus poems and the introduction to the1855 edition).
- Walt Whitman, Specimen Days.
- William Carlos Williams, Spring and All.
- Percy Byssche Shelley, “A Defence of Poetry.”
- Aime Cesaire, “Poetry and Knowledge.”
- Emily Dickinson, Poems.
- Eduardo Galleano, Century of the Wind.
- Carl Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc.
- W. E. B. Dubois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil.