Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems

8 best books like Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems (Annie Dillard): Signs Preceding the End of the World, Underland, Deadeye Dick, i love this part, Headbirths: or The Germans Are Dying Out, Open Secret: Versions of Rumi, Star, Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

Signs Preceding the End of the World

Author	Yuri Herrera
ISBN	1908276428

Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back.

Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho...

Underland

Author	Robert Macfarlane
ISBN	0393242145

An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...

Deadeye Dick

Author	Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN	0385334176

Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany...

i love this part

Author

Tillie Walden

"Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at school.

They watch videos, share earbuds as they play each other songs and exchange their stories. In the process they form a deep connection and an unexpected relationship begins to develop.

In...

Headbirths: or The Germans Are Dying Out

Author	Günter Grass
ISBN	0156399954

I definitely enjoyed reading and indulging in Grass's various musings. I had a hard time relating to it considering the specificity of some of the content to 1979 Germany, but I gained perspective on what the German mindset was when faced with the onset of the ever looming 1980's, regarding culture,...

Open Secret: Versions of Rumi

Author

Rumi

Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (Persian: مولانا جلال الدین محمد بلخى), also known as Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī or, just "Rumi" as we know him. He is one of the most important minds and spirits I have ever read.

Coleman Barks always delivers...

Star

Author	Yukio Mishima
ISBN	0811228428

All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms...

Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

Author	Alan W. Watts
ISBN	1577312147

"You must understand that in meditation, we are concerned only with what is, with reality, nothing else. The past is a memory. The future, an expectation. Neither past nor future actually exist. There is simply eternal now. So don't seek or expect a result from what you are doing. That wouldn't be true...