Here's the concept: Each of us has a small cache of books we know and esteem that even other readers like us likely don't know—our discoveries, books we feel a special need to keep out of the clutches of oblivion. I invite you to recommend one.
The details:
One per subscriber [for now].
Tell us why, in one sentence.
When there's enough for a list, I'll post.
You can have your name attached, or not—up to you.
I'll keep post this note [and the Birth Year Project] below my main posts.
The Other Side of the Mountain, by Michel Bernanos. A slow-churning, progressively gripping, surreal journey into the wilderness of the human heart whose ending stills mine with each reading.--Ron Antonucci
I suspect it's out of print but Jim Harrison's excellent poetry collection LETTERS TO YESENIN. Read this in graduate school in the '90s and loved it. Still think about it often.