Reading

I need to read more. Like, a lot more. So I made a list the other day taken from UNC-W's Creative Writing reading list.

American Prosody - Allen, Gay Wilson
Poetics - Aristotle
Ich und Du (I and Thou) - Buber, Martin
Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton - Coleridge
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy - Dryden, John
Emerson:"The Music of Poetry"
"The Poet"
"Nature"
"The American Scholar"
Poetic Meter and Poetic form - Fussell, Paul
Proofs & Theories - Louise Glück
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry - Gross, Harvey
How to Read a Poem - Hirsch, Edward
Poetry and the Age - Jarrell, Randall
Selected Letters - Keats
Birth of a Tragedy - Nietzsche
Pensees - Pascal
The Situation of Poetry - Pinsky, Robert
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
On Lies, Secrets and Silence - Rich, Adrienne
Letters to a Young Poet - Rilke
Modern Poetics - Scully, James
Apology for Poetry - Sidney, Phillip

I'm going to try to supplement this with books I have to track down outside of the campus library, as well as certain things I know I should have read by now. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, and... a multitude of other things. Actually, I think I finally need to get over my repulsion regarding Austen, the Bronte sisters, et al. I need to get into the habit of reading things I think I hate.

And I guess I should read Milton if I want to read an essay on Milton. Fuck.

Nexus One: sexy, sexy teflon wonder machine

I have red hot, out of control lust for this phone. How long ago was it that I didn't give a shit about mobile devices? Three months?