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Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape

10 best books like Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape (David Hinton): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Leaves of Grass, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, The Collected Poems, Complete Poems, On Human Nature, The Waste Land and Other Writings, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, Collected Poems

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525541330
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
Leaves of Grass
AuthorWalt Whitman
Here, in its original and complete form, is the edition of the American masterpiece that inspired Emerson to write his famous words to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."

As Malcolm Cowley says in his Introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass "might be called...
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
AuthorRichard Dawkins
The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans...
The Collected Poems
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0679726691
i fell in love with two men in my undergrad senior seminar. it was on wallace stevens and t.s. eliot.

the way i loved both of these writers hurt. (i'll set eliot aside for another time).

stevens kills me when he uses very innocent symbols - making ice cream, in "the emperor of ice cream",...
Complete Poems
AuthorMarianne Moore
ISBN0140188517
How many of you have even heard of Marianne Moore?

I'm genuinely curious on this point because I hadn't until last week. Her relative obscurity (at least here in the UK) is a bit of a shame because she has an important voice in the world of poetry.

Her poetry is unusual and it’s very hard...
On Human Nature
AuthorEdward O. Wilson
ISBN0674016386
No one who cares about the human future can afford to ignore E.O. Wilson's book. On Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?

With...
The Waste Land and Other Writings
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0375759344
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
 
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
AuthorBrian M. Fagan
ISBN0465022723
The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has only recently confirmed that the world endured...
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu
AuthorDu Fu
ISBN0811211002
Tu Fu radically altered poetry as he found it in the High T’ang period. In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all aspects of public and private experience, thus becoming in the words of translator David Hinton,...
Collected Poems
AuthorJames Merrill
The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on...
The Selected Poems
AuthorWang Wei
ISBN0811216187
Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition. Of the three, Wang was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry. He developed...
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
AuthorAlfred W. Crosby
ISBN0521546184
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
AuthorFrank O'Hara
ISBN0520201663
Frank O’Hara

Why I Am Not a Painter

I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,

for instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in.
"Sit down and have a drink" he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up....
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