ANOTHER LIST!

I woke up this morning making a list in my head as I used to wake up pretty much every morning of my life before the brain operation almost five years ago, so, perhaps this means my brain is returning to its former habits and perceptions and connections...the list was an approximate chronological selection of books that I've read more than once, many of them several times and a few even more times...

Lao Tzu's (or Tse's) TAO TE CHING
Confucius's ANALECTS
the Bible's GENESIS and PSALMS
Dante's LA VITA NUOVO
Shakespeare's SONNETS
Laurence Sterne's TRISTAM SHANDY
William Blake's SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS and SPECIMEN DAYS
Rimbaud's ILLUMINATIONS, A SEASON IN HELL and THE DRUNKEN BOAT
Fyodor Dostoevsky's POOR FOLK, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, THE GAMBLER, THE IDIOT, THE POSSESSED and THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
Kate Chopin's THE AWAKENING
Gertrude Stein's TENDER BUTTONS and THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EVERYONE
Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG OHIO
Theodore Dreiser's SISTER CARRIE
Rainer Maria Rilke's THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGS and THE DUINO ELEGIES
James Joyce's THE DUBLINERS, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, ULYSSES and FINNEGANS WAKE
T.S. Eliot's THE WASTELAND AND OTHER POEMS
William Carlos Williams's KORA IN HELL, THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL, SPRING AND ALL, THE DESCENT OF WINTER, PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL, PATERSON and SELECTED POEMS
Ernest Hemingway's IN OUR TIME, THE SUN ALSO RISES and A MOVEABLE FEAST
F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GASTBY and TENDER IS THE NIGHT
Ezra Pound's CANTOS
Louis Zukofsky's A
Jean Rhys AFTER LEAVING MR. MACKENZIE
Jean Toomer's CANE
William Saroyan's THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE, MY NAME IS ARAM, THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE, THE ADVENTURES OF WESLEY JACKSON, THE ASSYRIAN AND OTHER STORIES, ROCK WAGRAM, THE BICYCLE RIDER IN BEVERLY HILLS, TRACY'S TIGER and HERE COMES THERE GOES YOU KNOW WHO
Christopher Isherwood's DOWN THERE ON A VISIT and PRATER VIOLET
Robert Nathan's PORTRAIT OF JENNIE
Francis Ponge's SOAP
Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT and STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING
Henry Miller's SEXUS
Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD, MEXICO CITY BLUES, VISIONS OF GERARD, DESOLATION ANGELS, BIG SUR and THE VANITY OF DULUOZ
William Goldman's TEMPLE OF GOLD
Gary Snyder's RIP RAP and MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END
Diane di Prima's DINNERS AND NIGHTMARES
LeRoi Jones's TALES
Bob Kaufman's SOLITUDES CROWDED WITH LONELINESS and GOLDEN SARDINE
Frank O'Hara's LUNCH POEMS, MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY and SELECTED POEMS
John Ashbery's THE TENNIS COURT OATH and THREE POEMS
James Schuyler's FREELY ESPOUSING, THE CRYSTAL LITHIUM, HYMN TO LIFE and THE MORNING OF THE POEM
Hubert Selby Jr's LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN and THE WILLOW TREE
Larry Eigner's SELECTED POEMS
Ted Berrigan's THE SONNETS, IN THE EARLY MORNING RAIN, NOTHING FOR YOU and SELECTED POEMS
Joe Brainard's I REMEMBER
Ray DiPalma's MAX, MAX A SEQUEL, ACCIDENTAL INTERLUDES, SOLI and more I can't remember at the moment
Robert Slater's (damn, can't think of the title to his Some Of Us Press book right now) [A RUMOR OF INHABITANTS]
Lee Lally's THESE DAYS
Terence Winch's BONING UP, LUNCHEONETTE JEALOUSY, CONTENDERS, THE GREAT INDOORS, BOY DRINKERS, FALLING OUT OF BED IN A ROOM WITH NO FLOOR, LIT FROM BELOW and more I can't think of...
Ed Cox's BLOCKS
Jim Haining's A QUINCY HISTORY
Tim Dlugos's HIGH THERE, A FAST LIFE, JE SUIS EIN AMERICANO, ENTRE NOUS, STRONG PLACE and POWERLESS
Mark Terrill's BREAD & FISH
Jamie Rose's SHUT UP & DANCE

(I know there are others but this is what I came up with today...and again, these aren't my top favorite books necessarily, they're just books I'ver read more than once either because I liked them so much or for other reasons...I also just realized there are a lot of collected poems of favorite poets I've read from cover to cover, which was the second time I read many or all of those poems, but the above is plenty for now...) [PS: Just realized also that since I was involved in editing and publishing books over the years either with Some Of Us Press or O Press or others, I read all those books more than once as well...this could go on forever...]