1. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
2. Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
3. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
4. The Royal Family - William Vollmann
5. In a Shallow Grave - James Purdy
6. Sutree - Cormac McCarthy
7. Ida - Gertrude Stein
8. Souvenirs Entomologiques - Jean Henri-Fabre
9. Blood Oranges - John Hawkes
10. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
11. Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - Bruno Schultz
12. Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schultz
13. St. Mawr - DH Lawrence
14. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
15. The Collected Kafka
16. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
17. Light in August - William Faulkner
18. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
19. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - William Gass
20. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
21. Black Hole - Charles Burns
22. The Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
23. Lorca's Collected Poems
24. Philip K Dick is dank
25. So is Tolstoy
26. And Flannery O' Connor
27. Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter is possibly the dankest short novel of all time
28. Except maybe for Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West
29. Paradise Lost is the HELLA DANKEST POEM OF ALL TIME
30. Hart Crane is dank
31. I only meant to put like ten books up here, sorry
32. swag
The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm
by Wallace Stevens
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The words were spoken as if there was no book,
Except that the reader leaned above the page,
Wanted to lean, wanted much to be
The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The house was quiet because it had to be.
The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page.
And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In which there is no other meaning, itself
Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there.
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