reading list
Below are the books I would want with me
if I was 21.627 lightyears from AquaTerra (The
planet F.K.A. earth),
and my jump-engines were on the fritz,
and there were no planets nearby with a breathable
atmosphere,
and my hyperspace communicator was offline,
and Xeela, my metamorphic lover, was still in
stasis,
and...well...you get the idea.
featuring
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poetry and poetry generators
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia; Death Blossoms:
Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience;
Plough Publishing House; Farmington, PA; 1996;
ISBN 0-87486-086-5. (Hard to find in
stores. Call: 1-800-521-8011)
Buy it!
- Anderson, S.E.; The Black Holocaust
for Beginners; Writers and Readers Publishing,
Inc.; New York; 1995; ISBN 0-86316-178-2.
Buy it!
- Anderson, S. E., Tony Medina; In
Defense of Mumia; Writers and Readers Publishing,
Inc.; New York; 1996; ISBN 0-86316-099-9.
Buy it!
- Anglesey, Zoë Listen Up! Spoken Word
Poetry; The Ballantine Publishing
Group: New York; 1999; ISBN 0-345-42897-8.
- Barks, Coleman and John Moyne trans.; The
Essential Rumi; HarperSanFrancisco;
New York; 1995; ISBN 0-06-250959-4.
Buy it!
- Bentley, Chantelle, ed.; Poet's
Market: 1800 Places to Publish Your Poetry;
Writer's Digest Books;
Cincinnati, Ohio; Annual
- Boss, Laura and Maria Mazziotti Gillan,
editors; The New Jersey Poetry Resource
Book; The Poetry Center ( One College
Boulevard, Paterson, NJ 07509-1179),
1996, ISBN 0-9261495-5-1. To order this
book, write to the Poetry Center directly.
- Brooks, Gwendolyn, Keorapetse Kgositsile,
Haki R. Madhubuti and Dudley Randall;A Capsule Course in Black
Poetry Writing; Broadside Press; Detroit,
Mich.; 1975; ISBN 0-910296-32-4
Buy it!
- Bugeja, Michael J.; Poet's Guide: How
to Publish and Perform Your Work; Story
Line Press; Brownsvill, OR; 1997; ISBN
1-885266-00-6.
Buy it!
- Coles, Nicholas, Peter Oresick eds. For
A Living: The Poetry of Work; University
of Illinois Press; Urbana; 1995; ISBN
0-252-06410-0.
Buy it!
- Derricotte, Toi; The Black Notebooks:
an Interior Journey; W.W. Norton; New
York; 1997; ISBN 0-39304544-7.
- Derricotte, Toi; TenderUniversity
of Pittsburgh Press; Pittsburgh, Pa;1997;
ISBN 0-8229-5640-3.
- Espada, Martin; A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen;
Norton; New York; 2000; ISBN 0-393-04888-8.
Buy it!
- Gilbert, Derrick ed.; Catch the
Fire!!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology
of Contemporary African-American Poetry; River
Head Books; New York; 1998; ISBN 1-57322-654-8.
Buy it!
- Gilyard, Keith; Spirit & Flame: An
Anthology of Contemporary African American
Poetry; Syracuse, NY; 1997; ISBN
0-8156-2731-9.
Buy it!
- Giovanni, Nikki; The Selected Poems of
Nikki Giovanni; William Morrow and
Company, Inc.; New York; 1996; ISBN 0-688-14047-5.
Buy it!
- Gray, Dorothy Randall; Soul Between
the Lines: Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through
Writing; Avon Book; New York; 1998;
ISBN 0-380-79142-0.
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- Jerome, Judson; The Poet's Handbook;
Writer's Digest Books; Cincinnati, Ohio;
1980; ISBN 0-89879-219-3.
- Knight, Etheridge; The Essential
Etheridge Knight; University of Pittsburgh
Press; Pittsburgh, Pa, 1986; ISBN 0-8229-5378-1.
Buy it!
- Kowit, Steve; In the Palm of Your Hand:
The Poet's Portable Workshop; Tilbury
House Publishers; Gardiner, Maine; 1995; ISBN
0-88448-149-2.
Buy it!
- Lew, Walter ed.; Premoitions: The Kaya
Anthology of New Asian North American
Poetry ; Kaya Productions; New York;
1995;ISBN 1-885030-14-2.
Buy it!
- Feinstien, Sascha & Yusef Komunyakaa,
eds.; The Jazz Poetry Anthology;
Indiana University Press; Bloomington, Ill.; 1991;
ISBN 0-253-20637-5.
Buy it!
- Madgett, Naomi Long;Adam
of Ifé: Black Women in Praise of
Black Men; Lotus Press; Detroit;
1992; ISBN 0-916418-80-4.
Buy it!
- Major, Clarence, Ed.; The Garden
Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American
Poetry ; HarperPerennial; NY; 1996; ISBN
0-06-095121-4.
Buy it!
- McCarriston, Linda; Eva-Mary;
TriQuaterly Books; Evanston, Illinois; 1991;
ISBN 0-8101-5008-5.
Buy it!
- Mukand, Jon Ed; Articulations: The
Body and Illness in Poetry; Iowa City,
Iowa; University of Iowa Press; 1994;ISBN 0-87745-478-7.
Buy it!
- Muller, Lauren Ed. & The Blueprint
Collective; June Jordan's Poetry for the
People: A Revolutionary Blueprint; Routledge;
New York; 1995; ISBN 0-415-91168-0.
Buy it!
- Nelson, Marilyn; The Fields of Praise;
Louisiana State University Press; Baton
Rouge, LA; 1997.
- Roberson, Ed; Just In: Word of
Navigational Challenges: New and Selected Work;
Talisman House; Jersey City,
NJ; 1998; ISBN 1-883689-79-1.
Buy it!
- Sanchez, Sonia; Shake Loose My Skin;
Beacon Press; Boston, Mass.; 1999; ISBN 0-8070-6850-0.
Buy it!
- Thomas, Sheree. Dark Matter: A Century of
Speculative Fiction from The African Diaspora. New York: Warner
Books: 2000. ISBN 0-446-52583-9.
Buy it!
- Troupe, Quincy; Avalanche; Coffee
House Press; Minneapolis, MN; 1996; ISBN 1-56689-044-6.
Buy it!
- Turco, Lewis; The New Book of Forms: a
Handbook of Poetics; University Press
of New England; Hanover; 1986; ISBN 0-87451-381-2.
Buy it!
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technical/business
- Alcock, Donald. Illustrating "C" (ANSI/ISO Version).
Revised Ed.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 ISBN 0521468213.
Buy it!
- Beck, Kent. Extreme Programming Explained:
Embrace Change. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN
0-201-61641-6.
Buy it!
XP web site.
- Blake, Gary and Robert W. Bly.
The Elements of Business Writing.
New York: Macmillan General Reference,1992;
ISBN 0020080956.
Buy it!
- Blake, Gary and Robert W. Bly.
The Elements of Technical Writing
. New York: Macmillan General Reference,1993;
ISBN 0020130856.
Buy it!
- Bly, Robert W. Secrets of a
Freelance Writer: How to Make $85,000
a Year . 2nd ed. New York: Henry Holt
and Company,1997; ISBN 0805047603
Buy it!
- Brusaw, Charles, Gerald Alred,
and Walter Oliu. Handbook of Technical
Writing . New York: St. Martin'
Press, 1997; ISBN:0312254962.
Buy it!
- Cooper, Alan. The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why
High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
Indianapolis, indiana: SAMS; ISBN 0-672-31649-8.
Buy it!
- DiBona, Chris, Sam Ockman,and Mark Stone, eds. Open
Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. Sebastopol:
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1999. ISBN 1-56592-582-3.
Buy it!
You can read Open Sources online.
- Eckel, Bruce. Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition, Volume
One: Introduction to Standard C++ Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2000. ISBN: 0139798099.
Buy it!
FREE Electronic copies of this book are available at
www.bruceeckel.com
- Gerber, Michael. The E Myth Revisited: Why Most Small
Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It. New York: HarperBusiness,
1995. ISBN 0887307280.
- Greenspun, Philip. Philip and Alex's Guide to Web
Publishing. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
Inc., 1999.;ISBN: 1558605347.
Buy it!
FREE Electronic copies of this book are available at
www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/
- Ganssle, Jack. The Art of Programming
Embedded Systems. New York: Academic
Press, 1992; ISBN: 0122748808.
Buy it!
- Horowitz, Paul and Winfield Hill. The Art of Electronics
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 1989; ISBN: 0521370957.
Buy it!
- Johnson, Howard and Martin Graham. High-Speed Digital
Design: A Handbook of Black Magic.Upper Saddle River: Prentice
Hall PTR, 1993; ISBN: 0133957241.
Buy it!
- Labrosse, Jean J. Embedded Systems Building Blocks: Complete
and Ready-to-Use Modules in C . New
York: CMP Books, 2000; ISBN: 0879306041.
Buy it!
- Nagle, Joan. Handbook for Preparing Engineering Documents:
From Concept to Completion . Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press,1996;
ISBN 0780310977.
Buy it!
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