…with today’s post we conclude our summer reading recommendations. Certainly, there will be book recommendations from time to time right here on Odyssey Online, but we’ll also get back to blogging about the SLU Libraries, libraries in general, information technology, academics and the internet, and of course reading and readers. So for you readers (by way of summer gone and autumn upon us) who wish to have a book on the side, one to compliment the reading being done in the name of an academic pursuit, here are four books of poems, no thematic constant, only that within them are poems that catch one’s attention, dare I say, hint at truth:
- A Gilded Lapse of Time by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
- Florida Poems by Campbell McGrath
- Red Lacquered Chopsticks by Betty Warrington-Kearsley
- Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac, edited by Regina Weinreich
Yes, that Jack Kerouac, the man who wrote On the Road. Any of these are perfect to escape with, the days assigned reading done…