Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke for inspiration and to take the top off your head. Best translations are by Edward Snow and A. Poulin, Jr.
- The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke translated by A. Poulin, Jr.
- The Book of Images: Poems / Revised Bilingual Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Edward Snow
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo
Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki by Tony Barnstone
On Poetry
How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield
On Writing in General
Inspirational:
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland
Becoming a Writer by Dorthea Brande
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Nuts and Bolts:
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White
Elements of Grammar by Margaret Shertzer
The Elements of Editing a Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists by Arthur Plotnik
Random House Guide to Good Writing by Mitchell Ivers
