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The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
 
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Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan; Poems, Letters, and Other Writings – Ryokan, Ryuichi Abe & Peter Haskel, translators (Ryōkan Taigu is the ordained name of Yamamoto Eizō (1758–1831). Taigu means great fool. He is my favorite Japanese poet.)
 
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What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire - Charles Bukowski
 
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White Paper - George Starbuck

This is a book of poems. It contains my favorite poem of his, Of Late. (The link is to the POETRY FOUNDATION website.

I love the last two lines: "It is a strange sect … under advice to try the whole of a thought in silence, and to oneself."


 
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Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - James Yates
 
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