These are the books on the shelf above my desk

Poetics – Aristotle
The Sonnets – Ted Berrigan
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions
          & General Tales of Ordinary Madness – Bukowski
4 Ups and 1 Down
The Basketball Diaries
The Book of Nods – Jim Carroll
Poetical Works – Coleridge
The Pleasures & Pains of Opium – De Quincey
Tarantula – Bob Dylan
The Fall of America – Ginsberg
Visions of Cody
Mexico City Blues
Tristessa – Kerouac
All This Every Day
About Now – Joanne Kyger
Africa & the Marriage of Walt Whitman & Marilyn Monroe
News From Niman Farm
Lyrics
Live At the Church – Lewis MacAdams
Shit On My Shoes – Duncan McNaughton
No Place Fast – FA Nettelbeck
Call Me Ishmael
O’Ryan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 – Charles Olson
The Cantos - Pound
Illuminations – Rimbaud
On Bear’s Head
Scenes of Life at the Capital
Heavy Breathing – Philip Whalen