Below you will find a variety of books I’ve read, pondered, and blogged about. Some of them I recommend, others I don’t, but I’ve learned at least a little something from each of them. Clicking on the link will take you to the original blog post.

Poetry

• God’s Silence by Franz Wright
• Hard Rain by Tony Hoagland
• Inside Out by L.L. Barkat
• Mad Science in Imperial City by Shanxing Wang
• Midnight Rain by Joseph Hutchison
• Modern Life by Matthea Harvey
• National Anthem by Kevin Prufer
• The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (pending)
• Spring & All by William Carlos Williams (Englewood Review of Books)
• Trimmings by Harryette Mullen
• What the Light Was Like by Luci Shaw
• Versed by Rae Armantrout

Fiction

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Nonfiction

• A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
• Beauty Will Save the World by Brian Zahnd
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Fame is Infamy by Andrew Schwab
• Poetic Diction by Owen Barfield
• A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World by Paul Miller
• Radical by David Platt
• Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture by Makoto Fujimura
• Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry by Owen Barfield (pending)
• The Christian Imagination ed. by Leland Ryken
• The Furious Longing of God by Brennan Manning
• The Pastor as Minor Poet by M. Craig Barnes
• The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser
• The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine by A.W. Tozer (more)