"The ability to express himself has kept many a man poor."
John Jay Chapman, in Learning, 1910
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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Alan Contreras
About Me
- Alan Contreras
- Eugene, Oregon, United States
- I live in Oregon. I write on a variety of subjects.
Recommended Poets
- (the late) Leonard Cirino
- (the late) Reginald Shepherd
- Brian Turner (Here, Bullet)
- Cameron La Follette (Anamchara)
- Carl Phillips (especially earlier works)
- Frank Lospalluto
- J.D. McClatchy
- John Witte (The Hurtling)
- Mark Doty
- Michael Spring
- Pattiann Rogers
- Pimone Triplett
- W.S. Merwin (earlier works and The Vixen)
Recommended Lesser-known Music
- Adolphus Hailstork, Sonata da Chiesa
- Alan Hovhaness, Magnificat (St. Johns perf.)
- Colin Brumby, Clarinet Sonatina
- Colin Brumby, Jesu Son Most Sweet and Dear (song)
- Colin Brumby, Piano Concerto
- Colin Brumby, Sospiri
- Colin Brumby, Symphony No. 1
- Dan Bern, Toledo
- Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe, Barcelona (songs)
- Ivan Moody, Akathistos Hymn
- J. Ralph, Illusionary Movements of Geraldine & Nazu (songs)
- Jimmy Eat World, Hear You Me (On The Rocks perf.)
- Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah (Freshman Fifteen perf.)
- Shaun Davey, Granuaile (song cycle)
- Shaun Davey, Relief of Derry Symphony
- Shaun Davey, The Pilgrim (song cycle)
- Ture Rangstrom, Symphony No. 2
- William Hawley (songs)
Recommended Lesser-known Fiction
- Arthur Ransome, other works (1930s young adult)
- Arthur Ransome, We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea
- Arthur Upfield, the “Bony” mysteries
- Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince (1915 young adult)
- W. G. Collingwood, Thorstein of the Mere (19th C. young adult)
- Zenna Henderson, Ingathering (complete stories of the People, sci-fi)
Recommended Prose, History and Criticism
- Andrew Sullivan, Love Undetectable
- Andrew Sullivan, the Conservative Soul
- Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness
- Carl Honoré, In Praise of Slowness
- Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
- Christopher Hitchens, other works
- Edwin Muir, The Estate of Poetry
- Hugh Feiss OSB, Essential Monastic Wisdom
- James D. Hornfischer, The Last Stand of the Tin-can Sailors
- John Jay Chapman, Collected Works
- John Jay Chapman, Unbought Spirit (sampler)
- Jose-Alain Fralon, A Good Man In Evil Times
- Michael McIrvin, Whither American Poetry?
- Paul Valéry, The Outlook for Intelligence
- Robert Grudin, On Dialogue
- Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things
- Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living
- Stephen Spender, The Struggle of the Modern
- Thomas Merton/Czeslaw Milosz, Striving Toward Being (collected letters)
- W. H. Auden, The Prolific and the Devourer