Return to the City of White Donkeys

8 best books like Return to the City of White Donkeys (James Tate): Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Wade in the Water: Poems, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, Elegy, Pure Slaughter Value: Stories, Home Land

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
AuthorShunryu Suzuki
ISBN0834800799
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
AuthorJoshua Wolf Shenk
ISBN0618773444
A thoughtful, nuanced portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles.

 

Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy reveals how this illness...
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...
Wade in the Water: Poems
AuthorTracy K. Smith
Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones
Jangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they...
AuthorRyan Harty
ISBN0877458693
The vast, unsettling landscape of the American Southwest is as much a character in Ryan Harty's debut collection, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, as the men and women who inhabit its award-winning stories. In eight vivid tales of real life in the west, Harty reminds us that life's greatest challenge...
AuthorMary Jo Bang
Mary Jo Bang's fifth collection, Elegy, chronicles the year following the death of her son. By weaving the particulars of her own loss into a tapestry that also contains the elements common to all losses, Bang creates something far larger than a mere lament. Continually in search of an adequate metaphor...
Pure Slaughter Value: Stories
AuthorRobert Bingham
In his extraordinary debut collection, Pure Slaughter Value, Robert Bingham tracks the conscience of a generation that grew up educated, privileged, and starved for meaning. Bingham's strange sense of morbid fancy collides with a gutsy realism; the result is splendid wreckage: a young man is seduced...
Home Land
AuthorSam Lipsyte
ISBN0312424183
What if somebody finally wrote to his high school alumni bulletin and told...the truth! Here is an update from hell, a brilliant work from novelist Sam Lipsyte, whom Jeffrey Eugenides calls "original, devious, and very funny" and of whose first novel Chuck Palahniuk wrote, "I laughed out loud---and...
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