“My First Summer in the Sierra” by John Muir, a wandering mystic who wrote with luscious detail.
“The Four Quartets” by T. S. Eliot. Poems about time, impermanence and the glory of everyday life.
“The Phantastes” by George MacDonald. A magically strange and sapient book, with a sense of the wondrous present.
“Life With Swan” by Paul West. A novel full of all those exotic games couples play and don’t want people to know about.
A book that you always return to: “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair” by Pablo Neruda. Romantic sambas, magical imagery, it’s perfect to share with a sweetheart.
A book you hope parents read to their children: Randall Jarrell’s “The Bat-Poet.” It will flutter into a child’s heart.
