Mark Morris's Reading List

"I keep going back to the ceaseless, impossible longing of Eros in her wonderful book of history, translation and philosophy."

"Here's a great book: Ovid's "Metamorphoses." I recently re-re-read it… Each story is a shocker every time. So moving and tender and violent and personal."

"Oh, and I just remembered: "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony," by Roberto Calasso. Great!"

"Open it to any page and you are availed of the most amazing pictures and the most lucid analysis of world-cultures' dedication to making the world more beautiful, more satisfying."

"Harry Partch's "Genesis of a Music," at least the first half. After that, it is over my head."

"I remember adoring Pippi Longstocking, "Island of the Blue Dolphins"..."

"A little later, I was obsessed with Jules Verne and, yes, "The Lord of the Rings.""