THE TALLY: SEPTEMBER 2014

Dear Son,

At the end of each month, I’ll list the books we addressed for that month.  So, for the first month of this project, September 2014, we noted 413 books (assuming we currently have about half of the books in The Loeb Classical Library series).  If 7,000 is the estimate for the number of books in the library, that means we only have 6,587 more books to go.  I guess we’ll be reading for a while …  Meanwhile, here is September 2014’s List noted under each post's title:

SEPTEMBER

Introduction and the Poetry Section

“The Poet’s Bookshelf II”

The Poet’s Bookshelf II, Editors Peter Davis and Tom Koontz

The Bible 

Homer, Odyssey and Iliad 

John Yau, The United States of Jasper Johns  

John Yau, Radiant Silhouette: New & Selected Works 1974-1988 


Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Pack Rat Sieve, Sphericity, Endocrinology and Four-Year-Old Girl
 

Arthur Sze, Archipelago 

J.J. Pollitt, The Ancient View of Greek Art 

Richard Brautigan, The Hawkline Monster 

The Selected Letters of Richard Kerouac 

Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems, Ed. Roger L. Conover 

Richard Parker, Wine Buyer’s Guide

Dredging for Atlantis by Eileen Tabios

Birthday Poetry Books

AGAINST THE EVIDENCE: SELECTED POEMS 1934-1994 by David  Ignatow 

A FORM OF OPTIMISM by Roy Jacobstein 

CONSTANCE: POEMS by Jane Kenyon 

THE COUNTRY I REMEMBER by David Mason 

SOMETHING PERMANENT, photographs by Walker Evans and poetry by Cynthia Rylant

The Loeb Classical Library

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE by Stephen Crane (1 / 3)

BOOKS RELATED TO SPAIN 2014 TRIP

FERRAN: THE INSIDE STORY OF EL BULLI AND THE MAN WHO REINVENTED FOOD by Colman Andrews

MODERNIST CUISINE At Home

CULINARIA SPAIN: Cuisine, Country, Culture

GAUDI: THE COMPLETE BUILDINGS

PICASSO: GUERNICA

THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS – 3 Versions

FROM NAPA BOOKMINE’S ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY

The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages by Robert Fosster

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Pleather

THE COLLAPSE OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 by William L. Shirer

IN AMERICA’S SHOES by Andrei Codrescu

Dylan Thomas in America: An Intimate Journal by John Malcolm Brinnin

Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir by James Lord

NOTHING MORE TO LOSE by Najwan Darwish, Translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES by Alfred Corn

SESTETS by Charles Wright

NEAR CHANGES: POEMS by Mona Van Duyn

DOUBLESPACE: POEMS 1971-1989 by Hank Lazer

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE by Stephen Crane (2 & 3 / 3)

DEAR THEO: The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, Editor Irving Stone

THE ABOUTS OF SAMUEL PEPYS

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, biography by Claire Tomalin

PEPYS AT TABLE: Seventeenth century recipes for the modern cook by  Christopher Driver and Michelle Berriedale-Johnson

The Illustrated PEPYS From the Diary selected and edited by Robert Latham

FORMING AN “IDEAL BOOKSHELF”

MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, art by Jane Mount and edited by Thessaly La Force

THE QUARK AND THE JAGUAR by Murray Gell-mann

          By Mei-mei Berssenbrugge:

Audience (in progress) (chap #8, Belladonna Books/Boog Literature, New York, 2000)

BEAUTY with MYUNG MI KIM's COSMOGRAPHY (chap, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1996)

Empathy (Station Hill Press, New York, 1989)

Endocrinology with art by KIKI SMITH (Kelsey Street Press, Berkeley, 1998. 1 copy plus 1 copy of Limited Edition with a signed print by Kiki Smith, 1997)

Four Year Old Girl (Kelsey Street Press, Berkeley, 1998. 1 copy plus 1 copy of Limited Edition with a signed print by Richard Tuttle)

Hello, the Roses (New Directions, New York, 2013)

I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems (New California Poetry, University of California Press, 2006)

MIZU (artist edition book, Chax Press, Tucson, 1990)

NEST (Kelsey Street Press, Berkeley, 2003)

Pack Rat Sieve (chap, Contact II, New York, 1983)

Sphericity (Kelsey Street Press, Berkeley. 1 copy plus 1 copy of Limited Edition with a signed print by Richard Tuttle)

Summits Move with the Tide: Poems and a Play (The Greenfield Review Press, Greenfield Center, N.Y., 1974 and 1982)

The Heat Bird (Burning Deck, Providence, R.I., 1983)

          By Arthur Sze:

ARCHIPELAGO (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington, 1995)

ARTHUR SZE (video, Lannan Literary Videos, Santa Fe, 1997)

“Before Sunrise” (broadside, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1998)

DAZZLED (Floating Island Publications, Point Reyes, CA, 1982)

QUIPU (Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, 2005)

RIVER RIVER (Lost Roads, Providence, 1987)

The Gingko Light (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington, 2009)

The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 1998. 2 copies)

The Silk Dragon: Translations From The Chinese (Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, 2001)

THE WILLOW WIND: Translations from the Chinese and Poems (Tooth of Time, 1981)

          By John Yau:

100 MORE JOKES FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, collaboration with ARCHIE RAND (Meritage Press, St. Helena and San Francisco, 2001. 25-plus copies)

A.R. PENCK (art monograph, Abrams, New York, 1984)

Berlin Diptychon, with photographs by BILL BARRETTE (Timken Publishers, Lafayette, N.Y., 1995)

BIG CITY PRIMER: Reading New York at the End of the Twentieth Century, with photographs by BILL BARRETTE (Timken Publishers, Lafayette, N.Y., 1991)

BORROWED LOVE POEMS (Penguin, New York, 2002)

"COLD WATER FLAT" with ARCHIE RAND (37-numbered special edition etching, 2001. 5-plus copies)

Corpse and Mirror (Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, New York, 1983)

CROSSING CANAL STREET (chap, The Bellevue Press, Binghamton, N.Y., 1976)

"DOUBLE HEADED CREATURE FEATURE", with MAX GIMBLETT AND TOBY HINES (Artists' Book, 17.5 X 7 X 0.5 IN. 200_)

EDIFICIO SAYONARA (Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1992)

ED MOSES: A Retrospective of the Paintings and Drawings, 1951-1996 (art monograph, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, UC Press Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1996)

Exhibits (chap, Letter Machine Editions, Chicago and Denver, 2010)

FORBIDDEN ENTRIES (Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1996)

Further Adventures in Monochrome (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA, 2012)

HAWAIIAN COWBOYS (short stories or prose poetry, Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1995)

ING GRISH, with art by THOMAS NOZKOWSKI (Saturnalia Books, Philadelphia, 2005)

In The Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (prose, Ecco Press, Hopewell, N.J., 1993)

I Was A Poet in the House of Frankenstein (chap, Meeting Eyes Binder, Brooklyn, 1999)

JOHN, collaboration with MARTIN NOEL and BERND FINKELDEY (Stadtische Galerie Gopingen, Bonn, 1998)

“John Yau Symposium” in TALISMAN: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, No. 5, Fall 1990, Ed. Edward Foster (journal, Hoboken, N.J., 2 copies)

LOWELL CONNECTOR: Lines & Shots from Kerouac's Town, with CLARK COOLIDGE and MICHAEL GIZZI and photographs by BILL BARRETTE and CELIA COOLIDGE (poems and photographs, Hard Press, Inc., West Stockbridge, MA, 1993)

LOUISE FISHMAN (art monograph, Cheim & Reed, New York, 2000)

MAX GIMBLETT: The Language of Drawing (art monograph, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia, 2002)

MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE TATTOO (Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 2001)

MY SYMPTOMS (Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, 1998)

MARKO SPALATIN (art monograph, The Butler Institute of Contemporary Art, Ohio, 1995)

PARADISO DIASPORA (Penguin, New York, 2006)

"PICADILLY OR PARADISE" with TREVOR WINKFIELD (Signed Liimited Edition of 65, 12.5 X 9.5 IN, FERRIS EDITIONS)

POEM PRINTS: Norman Bluhm & John Yau (art monograph, Code Editions, New York, 1987)

RADIANT SILHOUETTE: New & Selected Works 1974-1988 (Black Sparrow, 1994)

Sometimes (Sheep Meadow, New York, 1979)

The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006)

The Sleepless Night of Eugene Delacroix (Release Press, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1980. 2 copies)

The United States of Jasper Johns (essay, Zoland, Cambridge, 1996. 2 copies)

A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (Distributed Arts Publishers, New York, 2008)

As Editor, FETISH (anthology, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1998)

YOUR ABUELITA’S BOOK(S), INCLUDING THE ILIAD

DAWAC And Other Memoir-Narratives by Beatriz Tilan Tabios

Homer’s Iliad – in 5 versions

LIBRARY SALES AND A MAN’S FEMINIST TAKE ON “ORPHEUS & EURYDICE”

Eurydice’s Song, poems by William Borden and monotypes by Douglas Kinsey

ASTONISHMENTS: Selected Poems of Anne Kamienska, Edited and Translated by Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon

STRANDS by Keri Hulme

EVERYTHING FLOWERS by CLARE ROJAS

LITERARY JOURNALS FEATURING MICHAEL’S POEMS

The Spirit of the Saints / El Espiritu de los Santos (St. Helena High School), 2012-2013

The Spirit of the Saints / El Espiritu de los Santos (St. Helena High School), 2013-2014

Pine Tree Poetry Collection

HOMER’S ODYSSEY & THE HARVARD CLASSICS

Here is the list of The Harvard Classics (we have all but one but we hope to acquire the missing one too):

Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN

     His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin

     The Journal of John Woolman, by John Woolman (1774 and subsequent editions)

     Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn

Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS

     The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito, by Plato

     The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus

     The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE

     Essays, Civil and Moral, and New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon

     Areopagitica and Tractate of Education, by John Milton

     Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne

Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON

     Complete poems written in English, by John Milton

Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON

     Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS

     Poems and songs, by Robert Burns

Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATIONS OF CHRIST

     The Confessions, by Saint Augustine

     The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis

Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS

     Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies, and Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus

     Oedipus the King and Antigone, by Sophocles

     Hippolytus and The Bacchae, by Euripides

     The Frogs, by Aristophanes

Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY

     On Friendship, On Old Age, and letters, by Cicero

     Letters, by Pliny the Younger

Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH

     The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith

Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN

     The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

Vol. 12. PLUTARCH'S LIVES

     Lives, by Plutarch

Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL

     Aeneid, by Virgil

Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, PART 1, CERVANTES

     Don Quixote, part 1, by Cervantes

Vol. 15. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON

     The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan

     The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton

Vol. 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

     Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

Vol. 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSON

     Fables, by Aesop

     Children's and Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

     Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen

Vol. 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA

     All for Love, by John Dryden

     The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

     She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith

     The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

     A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning

     Manfred, by Lord Byron

Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE

     Faust, part 1, Egmont, and Hermann and Dorothea, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

     Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe

Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE

     The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri

Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI, MANZONI

     I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni

Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER

     The Odyssey, by Homer

Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA

     Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE

     On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, and A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke

Vol. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE

     Autobiography and On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill

     Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, and Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle

Vol. 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA

     Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

     Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille

     Phèdre, by Jean Racine

    Tartuffe, by Molière

     Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

     William Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller

Vol. 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY

Vol. 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN

Vol. 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN

     The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin

Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC

     The Forces of Matter and The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday

     On the Conservation of Force and Ice and Glaciers, by Hermann von Helmholtz

     The Wave Theory of Light and The Tides, by Lord Kelvin

     The Extent of the Universe, by Simon Newcomb

     Geographical Evolution, by Sir Archibald Geikie

Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI

     The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

     Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

     Montaigne and What is a Classic?, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

     The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan

     The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

     Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich von Schiller

     Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant

     Byron and Goethe, by Giuseppe Mazzini

Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

     An account of Egypt from The Histories, by Herodotus

     Germany, by Tacitus

     Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols

     Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World, by Francis Pretty

     Drake's Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges

     Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland, by Edward Haies

     The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh

Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES

     Discourse on Method, by René Descartes

     Letters on the English, by Voltaire

     On the Inequality among Mankind and Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau

     Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

Vol. 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD

     Chronicles, by Jean Froissart

     The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory

     A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison

Vol. 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER

     The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli

     The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper

     Utopia, by Sir Thomas More

     The Ninety-Five Theses, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, and On the Freedom of a Christian, by Martin Luther

Vol. 37. LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME

     Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke

     Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley

     An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume

Vol. 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR

     The Oath of Hippocrates

     Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré

     On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey

     The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner

     The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes

     On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister

     Scientific papers, by Louis Pasteur

     Scientific papers, by Charles Lyell

Vol. 39. FAMOUS PREFACES

Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1: CHAUCER TO GRAY

Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD

Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN

Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1

     Confucian: The sayings of Confucius

     Hebrew: Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes

     Christian I: Luke and Acts

Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2

     Christian II: Corinthians I and II and hymns

     Buddhist: Writings

     Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita

     Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran

Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1

     Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe

     Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest, by William Shakespeare

Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2

     The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker

     The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson

     Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher

     The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster

     A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger

Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL

     Thoughts, letters, and minor works, by Blaise Pascal

Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA

     Beowulf

     The Song of Roland

     The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel

     The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs

Vol. 50. INTRODUCTION, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES

Vol. 51. LECTURES

     The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields: history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, travelogues, and religion.