Kim Dorman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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poetry / Corbel Stone Press

Voyaging Portraits: Poetry
Gustaf Sobin
However long its tether, poetry wounds itself in our hands as we are wounded, in turn, by its escaping. -René Char (tr. Gustaf Sobin)
Paperback, 1988
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Meditations: With Selected Correspondence
Marcus Aurelius
To my grandfather: Integrity and sweetness of temper. To my mother: The sense of reverence; generosity . . . the simplicity of her life. To my adoptive father: Gentleness. Marcus Aurelius, from the opening section of Meditations (tr. William Arrowsmith)
Paperback, 2011
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The Back Country
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder / The Back Country (this poem an old friend after how many years) https://t.co/jcMEDw9980
Paperback, 1971
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
traccia madreperlacea di lumaca "mother-of-pearl snail's track" -Eugenio Montale (quoted by Italo Calvino, "Lightness" / Six Memos for the Next Millennium)
Paperback, 2016
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Wind-Mountain-Oak: The Poems of Sappho
Dan Beachy-Quick
walk so we can see clear Dawn's golden arms harms . soon golden-sandaled Dawn . Queen Dawn -Sappho (tr. Dan Beachy-Quick, from Wind - Mountain - Oak: The Poems of Sappho)
Paperback, 2023
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Music's Mask and Measure
Jay Wright
Who would go into the river to recover a seed, or sit with a blacksmith and bard in high lament? There is a universe of such molecular intent the water folds. -Jay Wright, from Music’s Mask and Measure
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Notebooks
Leonardo Da Vinci
‘The animals have little, but that little is useful and true.’ -Robert Linscott ed. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Paperback, 2008
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Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel
Evan S. Connell
Beneath the first pillar on the left, in the Great Mosque of Cordova, the Arab Ibn Röchd has buried a ray of sunlight. -Evan S. Connell, Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel
Paperback, 2013
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The First Man
Albert Camus
b. the book should be heavy with things and flesh. -Albert Camus (a footnote in his posthumous novel, The First Man, tr. by David Hapgood)
Paperback, 1996
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Ardor
Roberto Calasso
. . . they built a Parthenon of words: the Sanskrit language, since <sam skrta> means 'perfect'. -Roberto Calasso, Ardor (tr. Richard Dixon)
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