I am often asked for recommendations of books and resources on feminism, poetry, spirituality, and related topics. Here are some of my special personal favorites--the ones I find myself recommending repeatedly to friends.
For more book recommendations, see my Goodreads page. For website recommendations, see Witchy Links. For book and film reviews and commentary, see the Poetry Witch Blog.
EMPOWERMENT
The Untouched Key by Alice Miller
Getting Our Bodies Back by Christine Caldwell
The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
HEALTH
Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss
The PMS Self-Help Book by Susan Lark
Heal Your Body by Louise Hay
The Complete System of Self-Healing, Internal Exercises by Dr. Stephen T. Chang
GODDESS SPIRITUALITY AND WITCHERY
When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor
Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines by Patricia Monaghan
Dreaming the Dark by Starhawk
FEMINISM
Women's Reality by Anne Wilson Schaef [This is the book that made me a feminist].
Through the Flower by Judy Chicago
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
The Skeptical Feminist by Barbara Walker
MATRICULTURE
Matriachal Societies by Heide Goettner-Abendroth
The Red-Haired Girl From the Bog by Patricia Monaghan
The Serpent and the Goddess by Mary Condren
LIVING
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff [on parenting]
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Passionate Marriage by David Schnarch
INSPIRATIONAL READING
Tao de Ching by Lao Tzu
The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit by Patricia Monaghan
Outrageous Openness and The Change Me Prayer by Tosha Silver
Return of the Great Goddess by Burleigh Muten
RITUAL
Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions by Starhawk, Anne Hill, and Diane Baker
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
The Goddess in the Office by Z. Budapest
Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions by Starhawk, Anne Hill, and Diane Baker
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
The Goddess in the Office by Z. Budapest
POETICS
The Founding of English Meter by John Thompson
Versification: A Short Introduction by James.MacAuley
Poetry for the People by June Jordan
Poetic Closure by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
And my own books and anthologies of poetics, of course!
POETRY
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
Selected Poems by William Butler Yeats
Mirror of the Heart by Sara Teasdale
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
Collected Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Original Love by Molly Peacock
Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker
Fields of Praise by Marilyn Nelson
The Bridge by Hart Crane
