non-fiction/etc.:: folktales of the north american indian, mexican days, the ravaged bridegroom (masculinity in women), healing magnets, the wheatgrass book, the last light breaking (living among alaska’s inupiat eskimos, poison widows (a true story of witchcraft, arsenic, and murder), wendell berry- what are people for?, the intelligence of dogs, ark cosmos (in search of our universe’s missing mass and energy), christopher norris- deconstruction, brothers (hidden history of the kennedy years), paddy whacked (the untold story of the irish american gangster), a voyage long and strange (rediscovering the new world), the jesuit & the skull, boethius- tractates/consolation of philosophy, other lives other selves (a jungian psychotherapist discovers past lives), transition to vegetarianism, psychological research in communist china, guns germs and steel, a problem from hell (america and the age of genocide (pulitzer prize), coercion capital and european states, english ghost stories, 19th century european art, art since 1900, 3000 years of chinese painting, masterpieces of chinese art, the freemasons, dante’s inferno, plato’s republic, basic writings of nietzsche, the portable jung, locke-the second treatise of government, serbian-english dictionary, albania-english dictionary, the world is flat (brief history of the 21st century, the balkans

religion/spirituality:: heart self&soul (sufi psychology), stone age wisdom, maurice friedman- to deny our nothingness, reiki (first& second degree manual), qigong (essence of the healing dnace), the teachers of gurdjieff, tao te ching, the desert pilgrim (mysticism and miracles), the wisdom of no escape, yves mj congar- a history of theology, the forest of souls (a walk through the tarot), six thomas merton books, healing spirits (true stories from 14 spiritual healers), big mind big heart (zen), quicksand & cactus (a memoir of the southern mormon frontier), the hopi survival it, the mountain of silence (a search for orthodox spirituality), shakti mantras, the yoga sutra, singing the soul back home (shamanic wisdom), inner christianity (a guide to the esoteric tradition), everything is god (the radical path of nondual judaism), rabbi paul (an intellectual biography), jesus and yahweh, the wisdom of the enneagram, i become part of it (sacred dimensions in native american life), nothing happens next (responses to questions about mediation), voices of our ancestors (cherokee teachings from the wisdom fire), reshad feild- the invisible way

POETRY: eavan boland, claudia emerson, jay harjo, brooks haxton, seamus heaney (5 books), maggie helwig, andrew hudgins, richard hugo, alway kinnell, denise levertov, stanley plumly, rainer maria rilke, theodore roethke, pattiann rogers, rumi (2), gary snyder, dylan thomas, lee upton (reading in the store this month), baron wormser, w.b. yeats

GENERAL NON-FICTION & ETC.: how it feels to be attacked by a shark, aj jacobs- the know it all, the mathematical experience, annie leibovitz (a photographer’s life), thomas more- utopia, the essential writings of ralph waldo emerson, beautiful boy (a father’s journey through his son’s addiction), the kingdom of strangers (penniless across america), getting stoned with savages (a trip through the islands of fiji and vanuatu), naomi klein- no logo, david sedaris- when you are engulfed in flames, isac’s storm (a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history), from act up to the wto (urban protest and community building in the era of globalization), pennsylvania disasters, off ramp (adventures and heartache in the american elsewhere), the murder of king tut, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, mailer (his life and times), full frontal feminism, lap dancing for mommy (tender stories of disgust, blame, and inspiration), the beauty myth, book binding for book artists,  class matters, our bodies ourselves, dave eggers- zeitoun, chuck klosterman- IV, sex at dawn (the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality), everything you know is wrong (the disinformation guide to secrets and lies), the good vibration guide to sex, autobiography of a blue-eyed devil (my life and times in a racist, imperialist society), holiday book of food and drink (1952), the end of nature, the very hard way (bert loper and the colorado river), ron kovic- born of the fourth of july, gonzo (the life of hunter s thompson)

MUSIC: woody guthrie (a life), john lennon (the life), glory days (bruce springsteen in the 1980s), F’ed up and photo copied (punk flyers, posters, set lists…), jim morrison writings vol 1 & 2, bob dylan chronicles vol 1, a history of the pianoforte and pianoforte players, practical violin study (1929), the art of practicing, this is your brain on music

PLAYS:: wole soyinka, yasmina reza, modern african drama,,

GRAPHIC NOVELS/COMIC BOOKS: daniel clowes, the acme novelty library, percy gloom, erika moen, adrian tomine

FOOD: holiday book of food and drink (1952), gardencycle (a gardener’s day journal, retro diner (roadside recipes), barbara kingsolver- animal vegetable miracle, the omnivore’s dilemma (a natural history of four meals), alone in the kitchen with an eggplant (confessions of cooking for one and dining alone)

charles alston, john m. armleder (signed), albert bierstadt, isabel bishop, paul cezanne, joseph cornell, stuart davis, max ernst, kent floeter, rudi gernreich, winslow homer, edward hopper, frida kahlo, rockwell kent, paul klee, frans masereel, blinky palermo, jules pascin, philip pearlstein, pablo picasso, may ray, rembrant, egon schiele (!), alfred stieglitz, vincent van gogh, andy warhol, as well as around 60 general/collections art books.. a lot of early american painting and impressionist books. the cream of the crop though is the complete works of marcel duchamp box set, which is the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen.

henri bergson, rene descartes, benedict de spinoza, john dewey, martin heidegger (3 books), david hume, william james, plato (3 books), freud (4 books), samuel beckett, william faulkner, kafka (2), kerouac (2), george orwell, cormac mccarthy, mark twain, lau tzu, richard dawkins, gary zukav, jimi hendrix sheet music, national audubon society: field guide to north american mushrooms

2nd batch of japanese books that support the relief efforts in japan: fiction, history, culture, language(learn japanese through comics, pop culture/language learning- magazines and tapes), baseball, festivals of japan, major motifs in the fairy tales of japan (forward by gary snyder), plus a handful of MAPS////more japanese books on the way too

for today, a pal of blind willow’s on pennsound:

gordon faylor

to and fro in shadow from inner to outer shadow

from impenetrable self to impenetrable unself
by way of neither

as between two lit refuges whose doors once
neared gently close, once away turned from
gently part again

beckoned back and forth and turned away

heedless of the way, intent on the one gleam
or the other

unheard footfalls only sound

till at last halt for good, absent for good
from self and other

then no sound

then gently light unfading on that unheeded
neither

unspeakable home

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