I drew upon a broad range of reference sources for information and inspiration. Several readers have asked me for a bibliography, so here it is. Click here to print a copy and go to Recommended Reading for additional suggestions.

 

Beston, Henry.
The Outermost House. New York: Reinhart & Company., Inc., 1949.

Bogan, Louise.
"Putting to Sea," The Blue Estuaries, Poems 1923-1968. New York: The Echo Press, 1977.

Brownmiller, Susan.
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.

Buchwald, Emilie, Pamela Fletcher and Martha Roth.
Transforming a Rape Culture. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1993.

Clifton, Lucille.
"trying to understand this life," The Book of Light. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993.

Conroy, Pat.
The Prince of Tides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

Creeley, Robert.
"The Hero," For Love, Poems 1950-1960. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962.

Dillard, Annie.
"To Fashion a Text," Inventing the Truth, edited by William Zinsser, Boston: Houghlin Mifflin, 1987.

Estrich, Susan.
Real Rape: How the Legal System Victimizes Women Who Say No. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Evans-Wentz, W.Y.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Foley, Helene P.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Freud, Sigmund.
Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, translated by J. Strachey. London: Hogarth Press. 1962.

Goleman, Daniel.
Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantom Books, 1995.

Groth, Nicholas, and Jean H. Birnbaum,
Men Who Rape: The Psychology of the Offender. New York: Plenum Press, 1979.

Herman, Judith Lewis.
Trauma and Recovery. New York: BasicBooks, 1992.

Jaynes, Julian.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghlin Mifflin, 1990.

Jung, C.G.
- Collected Works. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967.

Kerenyi, Karl.
Essays on a Science of Mythology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963.

Kolk, Bessel A. van der.
Psychological Trauma. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1987.

Kunitz, Stanley.
"The Layers," The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978. Boston: Little, Brown. 1979.

Lewis, Michael.
Shame: The Exposed Self. New York: Free Press, 1992.

Merwin, W.S.
"Second Psalm: The Signals," The Second Four Books of Poems. Port Townsend, WA: The Copper Canyon Press, 1993.

National Victim Center and Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center.
Rape in America: A Report to the Nation, 1992.

Newby, Eric.
A Book of Travellers’ Tales. New York: Viking, 1986 .

Mann, Thomas.
The Magic Mountain, translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. New York: Vintage Books, 1969.

Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar.
Cabeza de Vaca’s Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, translated by Cyclone Covey. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.

Heywood, Thomas.
Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid’s Ars amatoria. University of Michigan Press, 1999.

Paglia, Camille.
Sex, Art, and American Culture. New York: Random House, 1992.

Remarque, Erich Maria.
All Quiet on the Western Front. Fawcett Books, 1995.

Roethke, Theodore.
Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.

Shapiro, Francine.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures. New York: The Guilford Press, 1995.

Shengold, Leonard.
Soul Murder: The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.

Stevens, Wallace;
"The Man with the Blue Guitar" and "Of Mere Being," The Palm at the End of the Mind, ed. by Holly Stevens. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

Swenson, May.
The Love Poems of May Swenson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Te Paske, Bradley A.
Rape and Ritual: A Psychological Study. Toronto, Canada: Inner City Books, 1982.

Terr, Lenore.
Too Scared to Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

Thoreau, Henry David.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. New York: AMS Press, 1982.

Wilkinson, Tanya.
Persephone Returns: Victims, Heroes and the Journey From the Underworld. Berkeley, CA: PageMill Press, 1996.

Woolf, Virginia.
The Voyage Out. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World., 1920.

Wrangham, Richard W., and Dale Peterson.
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

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