4.48 Psychosis, Sarah Kane
The Anchored Angel, Jose Garcia Villa
Altazor, Vicente Huidobro
Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Emmett Williams (ed.)
Ark, Ronald Johnson
The Auroras of Autumn, Wallace Stevens
The Black Riders and Other Lines, Stephen Crane
Breathturn, Paul Celan
The Bridge, Hart Crane
The Cantos, Ezra Pound
Dictee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Dialectic of the Enlightenment, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
The Eclogues, Virgil
Eureka, Edgar Allan Poe
The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot
I, the Worst of All, Estela Lamat
Illuminations, Walter Benjamin
Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud
Impressions of Africa, Raymond Roussel
The Inventor of Love, Gherasim Luca
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance, Stéphane Mallarmé
Leaves of Grass (1860), Walt Whitman
The Magnetic Fields, André Breton and Philippe Soupault
Margins of Philosophy, Jacques Derrida
The Matrix, Norman Pritchard
Memories, Guy Debord (with Asger Jorn)
Men and Women, Robert Browning
Metamorphoses, Ovid
Milton, William Blake
Mythologies, Roland Barthes
Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
The Narrow Road to the Interior, Matsuo Bashō
Oulipo Compendium, Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie (eds.)
Oxford English Dictionary, J. Simpson and E. Weiner (eds.)
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Paradise Lost, John Milton
The Poetry of Surrealism, Michael Benedikt
The Single Hound, Emily Dickinson
Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
Solar Throat Slashed, Aimé Césaire
Spring and All, William Carlos Williams
Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein
Trilce, César Vallejo
The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
Vathek, William Beckford
The Waves, Virginia Woolf
White Album, Kitasono Katue
Editor’s Note: This list is part of Big Other’s Tribute to William H. Gass’s 88th Birthday.
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