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1A.  Required Texts

1. Richard Reynolds & John Stone, ON DOCTORING (3rd ed., 2001) (anthology) (Simon & Schuster, $35), ISBN 0-7432-0153-1
2. THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE: MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Thomson/Arden, reprinted 2003, (c) 1965 – ISBN 1-903436-44-3 (pbk)
3. John Irving, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (reprint ed., 1994) (novel) (Ballantine, $7.99, paper), ISBN 0-34538-765-1
4. Brian Clark, Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1978) (play) (Dramatic Publ. Co., $5.95, paper), ISBN 0-87129-329-3
5. Margaret Edson, Wit (1999) (play) (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, $13, paper), ISBN 0-571-19877-5
6. Margaret Wise Brown, THE RUNAWAY BUNNY (Oct. 1997) (Harper Trophy, $5.99, paper), ISBN 0-06-443018-9

1B.  Recommended Texts

1. Mary Oliver, A POETRY HANDBOOK (1995) (Harvest Books, $13, paper), ISBN 0-15-672400-6 (user-friendly introduction to the techniques of poetry) -- this has been included in the course book order

Any good guide to poetry might be helpful. I like Oliver (above) because it’s short and easy to get into.  I also recommend:

2. Ted Kooser, The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets (2005, $19.95), ISBN 0803227698) (sage advice in a very accessible form from the current Poet Laureate of the U.S.)
3. Mark Strand & Eavan Boland, THE MAKING OF A POEM (2000) (more detail than Oliver, but very accessible)
4. Helen H. Vendler, POEMS, POETS, POETRY (2nd ed., 2002) (an excellent college-level intro/anthology)
5. X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY (9th ed. 1998) (a very good college-level intro/anthology)
6. Mary Kinzie, A POET'S GUIDE TO POETRY (1999) (for the truly ambitious)
7. John Hollander, RHYME'S REASON (3rd ed., 2000)
8. Paul Fussell, POETIC METER & POETIC FORM (rev. ed., 1979)
9. Frances Mayes, THE DISCOVERY OF POETRY (2001)
10. PERRINE'S SOUND AND SENSE (Arp, ed.) (9th ed., 1997)
11. Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux, THE POET'S COMPANION (1997)
12. Judson Jerome, THE POET'S HANDBOOK (1980)
13. Marc Polonsky, THE POETRY READER'S TOOLKIT (1998)
14. Last but not least, you could do worse than Nikki Moustaki's THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO WRITING POETRY (2001) or The Poetry Center's POETRY FOR DUMMIES (2001)

1. Introduction, MEDICAL HUMANITIES: A PRACTICAL EDUCATION, Deborah Kirklin & Ruth Richardson, eds. (Royal College of Physicians of London 2001)
2. Introduction to the Student, from James Boyd White, THE LEGAL IMAGINATION (Little, Brown 1973)
3. Benjamin DeMott, English and the Promise of Happiness, from TEACHING -- WHAT WE DO: ESSAYS BY THE AMHERST COLLEGE FACULTY 1-11 (Amherst College 1991)
4. Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry," from SAILING ALONE AROUND THE ROOM (Random House 2001)
5. John Stone (I), “Even Though,” from IN ALL THIS RAIN (LSU Press 1980)
6. Carl Sandburg (I), "Lawyer"
7. Sue Miller, THE GOOD MOTHER (excerpt) (1986)
8. Ernest J. Gaines, A LESSON BEFORE DYING (excerpt) (1993)
9. Harper Lee (I), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (excerpt) (1960)
10. Herman Melville, BILLY BUDD (excerpt) (1891)
11. Carl Sandburg (II), "The Lawyers Know Too Much"
12. Villanelle, from THE NEW PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POETRY AND POETICS  1358 (1993)
13. Ward Just, About Boston, from TWENTY-ONE (Houghton Mifflin 1990)
14. Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers" (1917)
15. Joyce Carol Oates, AMERICAN APPETITES (excerpt) (1989)
16. Norval Morris (I), Ake Dah, from THE BROTHEL BOY AND OTHER PARABLES OF THE LAW  (Oxford Univ. Press 1992)

17. Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973)

18. John Donne, Holy Sonnets VI, IX, X
19. John Stone (II), "The Truck," from IN ALL THIS RAIN (LSU Press 1980)
20. Norval Morris (II), The Veraswami Story, from THE BROTHEL BOY AND OTHER PARABLES OF THE LAW (Oxford Univ. Press 1992)
21. Richard Selzer, DOWN FROM TROY: A DOCTOR COMES OF AGE, ch. 13 (Morrow 1992) 
22. Jane Kenyon, "The Sick Wife," from The New Yorker (April 22, 1996)
23. Donald Hall, "The Ship Pounding," from The New Yorker (April 22, 1996)
24. Perri Klass, OTHER WOMEN'S CHILDREN (excerpt) (1990)
25. W.H. Auden,"The Hidden Law" from COLLECTED POEMS 262-64 (Edward Mendelson, ed., 1991)
26. Harper Lee (II), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (excerpt) (1960)
27. Raymond Carver, “A Small Good Thing” (1983)