Recommended Books & Sites

POETRY

• The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks
• Collected Poems, Wendell Berry
• The Soul is Here For It’s Own Joy, Robert Bly
• The Art of Drowning, Billy Collins
• The Book of Light, Quilting: Poems, The Terrible Stories, Lucille Clifton
• New Delhi Love Songs, Michael Creighton
• West: Fire: Archive, Iris Jamahl Dunkle
• She Calls the Moon by its Name, Lonnie Hull Dupont
• Origins of Evening, Robert Gibbs
• All That Lies Between Us, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Ancestors’ Song, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, The Silence in the Empty House, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Writing Poetry To Save Your Life: How To Find The Courage To Tell Your Stories, Maria Mazziotti Gillan
• The January Children, Safia ElHillo
• The Gift, The Subject Tonight is Love, Hafiz
• Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky
• Next to Last Things, Stanley Kiunitz, The Wild Braid
• Only Bread, Only Light, Stephen Kuusisto
• Delights and Shadows, Ted Koozer
• In Search of Duende, Fredrico Garcia Lorca
• A Long Time Traveling, Michael L. Newell, Meditations of an Old Man Standing on a Bridge, Stranger to the Land, Michael L. Newell, Traveling without Compass or Map, Michael L. Newell
• 19 Varieties of Gazelle, Words Under the Words, Naomi Shihab Nye
• A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems, Carole Simmons Oles, Waking Stone: Inventions on the Life of Harriet Hosmer, Carole Simmons Oles, Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell, Carole Simmons Oles
• Poetry: New and Selected, Mary Oliver, Poetry Handbook, Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud
• Selected Poems of Rainier Maria Rilke, Rilke
• The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks
• American Psalm, World Psalm, Nicholas Samaras, Hands of the Saddlemaker, Nicholas Samaras
• The Arrival, Daniel Simko
• Ask Me, William Stafford
• Breaking the Jaws of Silence, Sholeh Wolpe

PLACE

• Home Economics, Wendell Berry
• What Matters, Wendell Berry
• New Delhi Love Songs, Michael Creighton
• From the Holy Mountain, William Dalrymple
• Head Over Heel, Chis Harrison
• River Notes, Barry Lopez
• Desert Notes, Barry Lopez
• Winter Count, Barry Lopez
• Dakota, A Spiritual Geography, Kathleen Norris
• A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat, Jeremy Seal

PILGRIMAGE

Inner Pilgrimage

• The Bible, a Biography, Karen Armstrong
• What Are People For, Wendell Berry
• The Gift of Years, Joan Chittister
• Keeping the Sabbath Wholly, Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting,  Marva Dawn
• Christian Meditation, James Finley
• Art of Power, Thich Nhat Hahn
• Teachings on Love, Thich Nhat Hahn
• Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Contentment, Robert A. Johnson
• Inner Gold, Robert A. Johnson
• Living Your Unlived Life, Robert A. Johnson
• Owning Your Own Shadow, Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche, Robert A. Johnson
• The Essential Henri Nouwen, Robert A. Jonas
• The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence
• Life of the Beloved, Henri J.M. Nouwen
• The Courage to Teach, Parker J. Palmer
• Forty Day Journey, Parker J. Palmer
• Let Your Life Speak, Parker J. Palmer
• To Know As We Are Known, Parker J. Palmer
• Teach, Breathe, Learn, Meena Srinavasan

Pilgrimages Into the World

The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago, David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson

• A Philosophy of Walking, Fredric Gros, John Howe (translator)
• No Destination, Satish Kumar
• Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker J. Palmer
• I Have a Small Heart, a film about the Kumano Kodo trail in Japan, a sacred pilgrimage route in Japan’s Kii Mountains. Producer: Maki Itami, director: Bajir Cannon
• Stanza Stones Walk, a fifty mile walk through the moors from Marsden to Ilkley, NW of Leeds in the UK. The path takes you by the six Stanza Stones carved with poems written by Simon Armitage. Armitage was commissioned by the Ilkley Literary Festival  to write the poems based on his walks in the area and Pip Hall carved the six poems into stones along the path.