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no bandages for that heartache // 3.10.17

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Skins UK, Generation One 2007-2008

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“This distance between my dreams and my capabilities makes me so furious that I want to die–to die from spite and also from grief.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Andonis Anemoyannis c. Feb. 1903

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“She is safer if she does not speak too much, write too much, feel too much; and yet she is dying this way, she is gently dying on a bed of roses.”

— Michael Cunningham, from “The Hours,” originally published c. 1998

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Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Richard Howard, from “The Rock Garden,” (edited)

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“I like to think that dying is like falling all the way back to where everything’s held to itself by memory.”

— Fleda Brown, from “Makeup Regimen,” featured in “When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women,”

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Kostas Varnalis, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “The Third Slave,”

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Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Stanley Kuntz and Max Hayward, from “To Death,”

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“You who are loved ecstatically by me alone,”

— Anna de Noailles, tr. by Norman R. Shapiro, from Poems; “Save Your Own,”

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Du côté de la côte (Agnès Varda, 1958)

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Can you make a huge list of book recommendations? I'm so excited for fall and I want to stock up on some good books

I’m not into lists a lot but it’s been ages since I’ve put together a big one so here we go, an autumnal list that contains prose, poetry collections, essays, drama, letters and journals.

“Report to Greco,” by Nikos Kazantzakis

“Only Prostitutes Marry in May: Four Plays,” by Dacia Maraini

“Atmospheric Embroidery: Poems,” by Meena Alexander

“Rien ne Va Plus,” tr. by Karen Emmerich, by Margarita Karapanou

“I am the Brother of XX: Essays,” by Fleur Jaeggy

“The Year of the Flood,” by Margaret Atwood

“Light Magic for Dark Times,” by Lisa Marie Basile

“The Voyage Out,” by Virginia Woolf

“The Tunnel,” tr. by Margaret Peden, by Ernesto Sabato

“Sin: Selected Poems,” tr. by Sholeh Wolpe, by Forough Farrokhzad

“The Woman Destroyed,” by Simone de Beauvoir

“A River Dies of Thirst,” tr. by Catherine Cobham, by Mahmoud Darwish

“On the border of Snow and Melt: Selected Poems,” by Georgy Ivanov

“First Draft: Poems,” by Nika Turbina

“The Complete Short Stories,” by Marcel Proust

“Tonight I Am Someone Else: Essays,” by Chelsea Hodson

“Master Letters,” by Emily Dickinson

“The Ravishing of Lol Stein,” by Marguerite Duras

“Notebooks: Complete Edition,” by Katherine Mansfield

“Grave of Light: New & Selected Poems,” by Alice Notley

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Secret thoughts #8