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I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race and class struggle, plus stuff like wine, baseball and music.
So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year and maybe one poetry collection.
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Steven Ray rated The waste land and other poems: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Night Sky with Exit Wounds: 4 stars
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr. Vuong’s new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds…possess …
Steven Ray rated Year of the Monkey: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated The Dharma Bums: 4 stars
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts …
Steven Ray rated The Odyssey: 4 stars
The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, …
Steven Ray rated On the Road: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated Shakespeare's sonnets: 4 stars
Shakespeare's sonnets by William Shakespeare (The Arden Shakespeare)
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, …
Steven Ray rated Twenty love poems and a song of despair: 4 stars
Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda (Penguin classics)
First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda’s most popular work. Daringly …
Steven Ray rated Howl and Other Poems: 4 stars
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
"Howl", also known as "Howl for Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in …
Steven Ray rated The Fellowship of the Ring: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: 4 stars
Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt …