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Notes on Thought and Vision

9 best books like Notes on Thought and Vision (H.D.): Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Sonnets to Orpheus, The Love of a Good Woman, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, Jane: A Murder, With My Dog Eyes, The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. Five: 1932-1935, Of Being Numerous, Crave

Night Sky with Exit Wounds
AuthorOcean Vuong
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
Sonnets to Orpheus
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN0393328856
To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of...
The Love of a Good Woman
AuthorAlice Munro
ISBN0099287862
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable,...
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
AuthorYusef Komunyakaa
ISBN0819512117
Poetry "reconnects us to the act of dreaming ourselves into existence," Komunyakaa once wrote. Once you pause a minute to consider the pain that has served as an outline in this poet's life, and when you also consider the highfalutin awards and professorial prestige given to a man whom people still seem...
Jane: A Murder
AuthorMaggie Nelson
ISBN1932360719
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson...
With My Dog Eyes
AuthorHilda Hilst
ISBN1612193455
A short, stunning book by a Brazilian master of the avant-garde.

Something has changed in Amos Keres, a university mathematics professor—his sentences trail off in class, he is disgusted by the sight of his wife and son, and he longs to flee the comfortable bourgeois life he finds himself...
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. Five: 1932-1935
AuthorVirginia Woolf
ISBN0156508869
As usual, these letters were witty, insightful, profound and sometimes heartbreakingly sad (she lost so many people – but she wrote about grief so well). I have to say, though, I usually don’t mind the introductions to these volumes (by Nigel Nicolson), or at least they usually provide context...
Of Being Numerous
AuthorGeorge Oppen
ISBN0811203360
If possible I would recommend listening to Oppen read this himself
There is something so fragile and weary in his reading that punches me in the heart especially hard when there is a sort of immediate self undermining in his poetry, the first instance of this (and me having my heart broken) is the forth...
Crave
AuthorSarah Kane
ISBN0413728803
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire.

Produced by Paines Plough and Bright Ltd (Guy Chapman and Paul Spyker), Crave premiered at the Traverse Theatre for the 1998 Edinburgh Festival....
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