Wednesday, April 13, 2005

One of my favorite poets (and how many people can say they have a favorite poet, muc h less more than one?) did this on his blog, so I am too <>

Here is the list of books I have read for my MFA since January 2004. I still have one sememster to go... but I might not have to read so many next semester...

List - - In order by semester:

Semester 1

Sherwood Anderson. Winesburg, Ohio. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1995.

Carol Anshaw. Aquamarine. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.

Truman Capote. In Cold Blood A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences. New York, NY: Random House, 1965.

Julio Cort�zar, Gregory Rabassa (t). Hopscotch. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1995.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (t), Larissa Volokhonsky (t). Notes From Underground. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Ron Hanson. Mariette in Ecstasy. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1992.

Ann E. Imbrie. Spoken in Darkness: Small-Town Murder and a Friendship Beyond Death. New York, NY: Hyperian, 1993.

Jack Kerouac. Visions of Cody. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.

Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

Harper Lee. To Kill a Mocking Bird. New York, NY: Warner Books Inc., 1982

Toni Morrison. The Bluest Eye. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1994.

Carson McCullers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. New York, NY: Modern Library, 1993.

Alice McDermott. At Weddings and Wakes. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1992.

Dale Peck. Martin and John. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1993.

Robert Louis Stevenson. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York, NY: Signet, 1987.

Marilynne Robinson. Housekeeping. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Richard A. Wright. Black Boy, New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1998.


Semester 2

Annotations:

Rabih Alameddine. I, The Divine. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2001.

Rudolfo Anaya. Bless me, Ultima. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1972.

Nina Nikoleavna Berberova, Marian Schwarts (t). The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories. New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 2001.

Mary Caponegro. The Star Caf�. New York, NY: Scribner 1990.

Sandra Cisneros. The House on Mango Street. New York, NY: Random House, 1984.

Douglas Coupland. Shampoo Planet. New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1992.

John Irving. The World According to Garp. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2000.

Franz Kafka, Donna Freed (t). The Metamorphosis. New York, NY: Fine Creative Media, 2003.

A.L. Kennedy. So I am Glad. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2001.

Alice Munro. The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose. New York, NY: Vintage, 1991.

Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum (t). A Wild Sheep Chase. New York, NY: Penguin, 1989.

Walker Percy. The Moviegoer. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1998.
Plato, Christopher Gill (t). The Symposium. New York, NY: Penguin, 1999.

Terry Ryan. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Jean Paul Sartre. What is Literature. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1989.

Colson Whitehead. The Intuitionist. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 1999.

Long Critical Paper � Poetry: Why it�s Best When it�s Spoken

Works Cited

Babette Deutsch, Poetry Handbook 4th Ed., Copyright 1981 by Babette Deutsch, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., New York, NY

Bill Moyers, The Language of Life, Copyright 1995 by Public Affairs Television, Inc., Doubleday, New York, NY

Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog From Hell, Copyright 1977 by Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA

Judson Jerome, The Poets Hand-Book, Copyright 1980 by Judson Jerome, F&W Publications, Inc., Cincinnati, OH

Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington, Copyright 2001 by Kathleen Norris, River Head Books, New York, NY

Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood, Copyright 1996 by Robert Hass, Ecco Press, Hopewell, NJ

Robert Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry, Copyright 1998 by Robert Pinksy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY

Sam Cornish, Cross A Parted Sea, Copyright 1996 by Sam Cornish, Zoland Books, Cambridge, MA

Sherman Alexie, The Business of Fancy Dancing, Copyright 1992 by Sherman Alexie, Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, NY

Works Consulted

Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, Copyright 1995 by Coleman Barks, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY

Coleman Barks, John Moyne, Open Secret: Versions of Rumi, Copyright 1999 by John Moyne and Coleman Barks, Shambhala Publications, Boston, MA

Catherine Sasanov, All the Blood Tethers, Copyright 2002 by Catherine Sasanov, Northeastern University Press, Boston, MA

Catherine Sasanov, What�s Left of Galgani, Copyright 2004 by Catherine Sasanov, Franciscan University Press, Steubenville, OH

Elise Paschen, Rebekah Presson Mosby (Eds.), Poetry Speaks, Copyright 2001 by Sourcebooks, Inc., Sourcebooks, Naperville, IL.

James Austin (Prod.), The Beat Generation, Copyright 1992 by Rhino Records, Rhino Word Beat, Santa Monica, CA.

Kathleen Norris, Little Girls in Church, Copyright 1995 by Kathleen Norris, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA

Lawson Fusao Inada, Legends from Camp, Copyright 1993 by Lawson Fusao Inada Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN

Maya Angelou, Wouldn�t Take Nothing for my Journey Now, Copyright 1993 by Maya Angelou, Random House, New York, NY

Poets & Writers, Poet as Rock Star, May/June 2001, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p. 75-79

Richard Ellmann and Robert O�Clair (Eds.), The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry 2nd Ed., Copyright 1988 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY

Richard Jones (Ed.) Poetry East, Copyright 1996 by Poetry East, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Robert Hass, Field Guide, Copyright 1998 by Robert Hass, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

Robert Pinsky, Maggie Dietz, Americans� Favorite Poems, Copyright 2000 by Maggie Dietz, Robert Pinksy, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY


Yeah I know I wrote my LCP on poetry even though I'm writing a novel... Closet poet...

Semester 3

Hanan Al-Shaykh. I Sweep the Sun Off Roof Tops. New York, NY: Random House, 1998.

Aimee Bender. An Invisible Sign of my Own. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2001.

Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita. New York, NY: Vintage, 1996.

Sarah Shun-leir Bynum. Madeline is Sleeping. New York, NY: Harcourt, 2004.

Jennifer Donnelly. A Northern Light. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003.

Bret Easton Ellis. American Psycho. New York, NY: Vintage, 1991.

Francisco Goldman. The Divine Husband. New York, NY: Grove/Atlantic, 2004.

A.L. Kennedy. Original Bliss. New York, NY: Vintage, 2000.

Daniel Keyes. Flowers for Algernon. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 1987.

Mark Mathabane. Kaffir Boy. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1998.

Haruki Murakami. The Elephant Vanishes. New York, NY: Vintage, 1994.

Walter Dean Myers. Fallen Angels. New York, NY: Scholastic, 1988.

Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1997.

J.D. Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1991.

Constantine Stanislavski, Elizabeth Reynolds. An Actor Prepares. New York, NY: Routlegde, 1989.

John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. New York, NY: Penguin, 1993.

Jennifer Weiner. Good in Bed. Washington Square Press, New York, NY, 2001.



Teaching Essay � Trust

Works Cited

Cynthia Stokes Brown, Like It Was: A Complete Guide to Writing Oral History, Copyright 1988 by Cynthia Stokes Brown, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York, NY

Sanford Kaye, Writing as a Life Long Skill, Copyright 1994 by Sanford Kaye, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Boston, MA


Works Consulted

Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Copyright 1986 by Natalie Goldberg, Shambhala, Boston, MA

Chuck Klosterman, Fargo Rock City; A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota, Copyright 2001 by Chuck Klosterman, Scribner, New York, NY

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Copyright 1994 by Anne Lamott, Pantheon Books, New York, NY

Patrick D. Morrow (ed), Growing up in North Dakota, Copyright 1979 by University Press of America, Inc., Washington, D. C.

Timothy Murphy, Set the Ploughshare Deep: A Prairie Memoir, Copyright 2000 by Timothy Murphy, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH

Kathleen Norris, Little Girls in Church, Copyright 1995 by Kathleen Norris, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA

Kathy L. Plotkin, The Pearson Girls: a Family Memoir of the Dakota Plains, Copyright 1998 by Kathy L. Plotkin, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

Philo T Pritzkau, Growing Up in North Dakota: A Memoir, Copyright 1996 by Philo T Pritzkau, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

Ron Vossler, Dakota Kraut: a Memoir, Copyright 2003 by Ron Vossler, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

Ward Wilkins, And Some Went Hungry, Copyright 2002 by Ward Wilkins, Coon Rapids, MN

Ward Wilkins, The Blackboards Whisper, the Walls Shout! : Inside School Houses (Big and Small), Copyright 2003 by Ward Wilkins, United States

Jo Ann Winistorfer, Cathy A. Langemo, Tracing Your Dakota Roots: a Guide to Genealogical Research in the Dakotas, Copyright 1999 Dakota Roots, Bismarck, ND


Selected Workshop Readings


Hazel Grange, Live Arrival Guaranteed: a Sandhill Memoir, Copyright 1996 by Hazel Grange, Lost River Press, Boulder Junction, WI

Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: a Low Culture Manifesto, Copyright 2003 by Chuck Klosterman, Scribner, New York, NY

Frances Mayes, Bella Tuscany, Copyright 1999 by Frances Mayes, Broadway Books, New York, NY

Kathleen Norris, Dakota A Spiritual Geography, Copyright 1993 by Kathleen Norris, Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY

Albert Tangeman Vollweiler, Roosevelt�s Ranch Life in North Dakota, Reprint from the Quarterly Journal of UND, Copyright 1918, University of North Dakota, Grandforks, ND

Larry Woiwode, Aristocrat of the West, The Story of Harold Schafer, Copyright 2000 by Larry Woiwode, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

Web Resources

http://www.blogger.com/start
http://www.capturingmemories.com/tips.html
http://www.dakotawest.org
http://www.lakeregionwriters.bravehost.com
http://www.state.nd.us/arts
http://www.twc.org/