{"id":62,"date":"2025-04-18T10:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bills-books.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2025-04-18T10:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:34:26","slug":"the-poems-in-my-bookshelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bills-books.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/the-poems-in-my-bookshelf\/","title":{"rendered":"The poems in my bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some contrived, some entirely accidental. They make a kind of &#8216;poetic&#8217; sense. The brain can\u2019t help but make associations. I think of them as unruly haikus. (They are way off the required syllable count.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cod<br>Very Like a Whale<br>but beautiful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White Goddess<br>Weeds<br>New Grub Street<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Friends<br>Waiting for the Barbarians<br>In Patagonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philosophy 1<br>Metaphysics<br>The Inland Voyage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black Swan Green<br>Loving<br>Cony Catchers and Bawdy Baskets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Long March<br>Death at Intervals<br>Rule of the Bone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bills-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-poems-in-my-bookshelf-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bills-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-poems-in-my-bookshelf-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bills-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-poems-in-my-bookshelf-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bills-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-poems-in-my-bookshelf-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bills-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-poems-in-my-bookshelf-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bills-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-poems-in-my-bookshelf-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucy<br>Interpreter of Maladies<br>On the Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Junky<br>Annie John<br>At the Bottom of the River<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonnie and Clyde<br>Trout fishing in America<br>Cooking for Crowds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What We Talk About When We Talk About Love<br>French Cheeses<br>The Adventures of Dougal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ulysses<br>Surfacing<br>One Moonlit night<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All my Sons<br>Wild<br>Mosquitos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House of Whacks<br>Sex Habits of American Women<br>A Study in Scarlet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bandits of Cisterna<br>Alamut<br>The Magick of Thelema<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rabbit Rich<br>V.<br>Rigadoon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ratman of Paris<br>In the Skin of a lion<br>Eisenstein<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wide Sargasso Sea<br>Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid<br>Mimes et po\u00e8tes antiques<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Red Widow Murders<br>The White Priory Murders<br>Forbidden Colours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Painted Word<br>Nederlands zilver<br>The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Prefer Nettles<br>Training the young horse<br>Cults: faith, healing and Coercion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desperate characters<br>On Chesil Beach<br>Beyond Desire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We Fought them in Gunboats<br>Mr Stone and the Knights Companion<br>Lord Malquist &amp; Mr Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Witch\u2019s Daughter<br>Reading the Cantos<br>Being good<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colette<br>A Girl at the Helm<br>Innocent Libertine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Long Song<br>Nothing Like the Sun<br>In the Heart of the Sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Dead Man In Deptford<br>The Castle of Crossed Destinies<br>Conundrum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bluff<br>What Life Could Mean to You<br>The Politics of Jesus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Danger<br>A Lesson before dying<br>Terrorist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kidnapped King<br>The Prince<br>Dragon Captives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the Black Hill<br>The Yellow House<br>A Parcel of Trees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Moon Under<br>Sands of Mars<br>Desert Solitaire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People of the Deer<br>The Charging Buffalo<br>From Adversaries to Comrades-In-Arms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A History of Spanish Firearms<br>Comrades<br>Men without women<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucy<br>Save me the Waltz<br>The Price of my Soul<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hilbert<br>Working With Singing Bowls<br>Interaction Ritual<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A High Wind in Jamaica<br>A House Unlocked<br>Muses Are Heard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jane Steele<br>Girl, 20<br>Love&#8217;s Executioner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heed the Thunder<br>Signalman&#8217;s Apprentice<br>To Sunset and Beyond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marx<br>Cooking with Wine<br>Civilization and Capitalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Veiled Sun<br>Transparent Things<br>Pursuit of Signs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recipes from the White Hart Inn<br>Everlasting Syllabub and the Art of Carving<br>The Chef at War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graceland<br>Consumption<br>The Favourite Game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Great ship from Amacon<br>Bloody Sun at Noon<br>The Living and the Dead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tiger\u2019s Wife<br>Dreams from Bunker Hill<br>The Spoilt Kill<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Ritual to Romance<br>The Story of Juliette<br>The Elusive Embrace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Book of Ireland Folk<br>Tales of the Borders<br>The Gipsy&#8217;s Baby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Singing Sands<br>The Stones of Venice<br>The divers of Acapulco<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God Is Not Great<br>When You Are Engulfed In Flames<br>The Black Death<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guns, Germs &amp; Steel<br>Politics<br>Murder, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tiger&#8217;s Wife<br>No Beast So Fierce<br>Without Feathers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The English Opium-Eater<br>A Taste of the Sun<br>Narcopolis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Three Hostages<br>Theory of War<br>The Ideas behind the Chess Opening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Billiards at Half-Past Nine<br>41 Degrees<br>Fearless Symmetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British Museum is Falling Down<br>Picture<br>The Mermaids in the Basement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sun Came Down<br>Between the World and Me<br>I&#8217;m Gone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Access To History: The British Empire, 1815-1914<br>Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism<br>The Anatomy of Disgust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Troubles<br>Running in the Family<br>Way of the World<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Last of England<br>Lions and Shadows<br>1066 And All That<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henri Rousseau<br>Scenes from the Back of Beyond<br>The Jungle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pigeon<br>Flight to Arras<br>Distant Water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I, Leonardo<br>Borrobil<br>Shart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Monkey\u2019s wrench<br>Springhaven<br>The Catcher in the Rye<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pleasant Valley<br>Scenes of Clerical Life<br>The Blind Watchmaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Glass of Blessings<br>Cider with Rosie<br>Portable Utopia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clandestine in Chile<br>The French Lieutenant&#8217;s Woman<br>Envisioning Information<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tobacco Road<br>Nicotiana tabacum<br>Light Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hell&#8217;s Angels<br>A Long Way from Verona<br>O Pioneers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Porcupine<br>Views<br>His First Kangaroo<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emperor Julian<br>Spellbound<br>Soldier of the Great War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drunkard\u2019s Walk<br>Across the Common<br>The Bay Of Noon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman Rolf Fehlbaum<br>The Man who went into the West<br>Living With Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth and Essex<br>Fiesta<br>That Night<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Worm in the Bud<br>Ladies of Llangollen<br>Geography of the Heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radical Evil<br>Little cabbages<br>When Least Is Best<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All That Is<br>Wood and Stone<br>Labyrinths<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Peanut<br>A Single Man<br>The Outsider<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cock and Bull<br>Amazing Bone<br>Portnoy&#8217;s Complaint<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy<br>Sigmund Freud<br>Invitation To A Beheading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<br>The Black Book and the Mob<br>The Devil in the White City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life on Waller Creek<br>Soldiers&#8217; 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