Mnemagogos

[antigonick]

For those of you who asked, here’s a list of some of my favourite poems:

Soleil et Chair (Sun and Flesh), Arthur Rimbaud Litany, Rebecca Linderberg A Myth of Devotion, Louise Glück L’Après-Midi d’un Faune (The Afternoon of The Faun), Stéphane Mallarmé Fever 103°, Sylvia Plath It’s No Use, Sappho (tr. Barnard) Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes, Rainer Maria Rilke The Glass Essay, Anne Carson Alchimie du Verbe (Alchemy of the Word), Arthur Rimbaud I Will Wade Out, E. E. Cummings Mrs. Beast, Carol Ann Duffy Elsa au Miroir (Elsa at The Mirror), Louis Aragon To Fanny, John Keats The First Elegy, Rainer Maria Rilke Persephone The Wanderer (I), Louise Glück Mad Girl Love Song, Sylvia Plath He Seems to Me, Sappho (tr. Carson) F. de Samara to A. G. A., Emily Brontë Pietà, Rainer Maria Rilke (and its many translations) To Proserpine (Orphic Hymn), Anonymous The Unicorn, Angela Carter Saying Your Names, Richard Siken Apparition, Stéphane Mallarmé The Tiger, Pablo Neruda Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath Clair de Lune, Roland Leighton I Like My Body When, E. E. Cummings When We With Sappho, Kenneth Rexroth Look On This Picture and On This, Christina Rossetti Nacciyar Tirumoli, Andal (tr. Sarukkai Chabria) Zuleikha, Rumi Marathon, Louise Glück The Red Poppy, Louise Glück The Concert of Hyacinths, Odysseus Elytis (tr. by Kimon Friar) Song for an Ancient City, Amal El-Mohtar Prayers in a Temple, Yusuf al-Khal (tr. by Abdullah al-Udhari) The Convent Threshold, Christina Rossetti Letter to Husband, Emily Berry my love, E. E. Cummings Glanmore Sonnet X, Seamus Heaney Plead for Me, Emily Brontë

[ariasdefunctchildhood]

Dies Irae Playlist

Symphonie Fantastique- Berlioz

Through its movements, it tells the story of an artist's self-destructive passion for a beautiful woman. The symphony describes his obsession and dreams, tantrums and moments of tenderness, and visions of suicide and murder, ecstasy and despair.

The Planets- Holst

The work is based on astrological signs, which fascinated Holst, and not on the astronomical planets, which explains why Earth does not appear. Although Pluto was discovered and named a planet...he had absolutely no interest in adding a movement.

Danse Macabre- Saëns

The piece begins with twelve repeated notes from the harp, signifying a clock striking midnight. The violin scratches out a series of imperfect fifths that do not resolve as they should in well-mannered tonal music. The devil is warming up to play a diabolical dance in a fast waltz time...

Suite Symphonique- Bloch

Bloch's exquisite...Suites portray, in the composer's own words, "…the complex, glowing, agitated soul that I feel vibrating through the Bible…the freshness and naiveté of the Patriarchs, the violence of the prophetic Books; the Jew's savage love of justice; the despair of Ecclesiastes; the sorrow and the immensity of the Book of Job; the sensuality of the Song of Songs…it is all this that I endeavour to hear in myself, and to translate in my music."

Six Peices for Piano- Brahms

Perceived as a secret love letter to Clara Schumann, this is one of the most tear-jerking pieces of classical piano repertoire, with love, reminiscence and sense of longing all constellated in one single piece of music.

Totentaz- Listz

Franz Liszt's Totentanz is a diabolical concerto for piano and orchestra, filled with dark, dramatic energies. The piece reflects Liszt's fascination with death and the macabre - the title is German for "Dance of Death"! The piece also showcases Liszt's inventive new ideas about how the piano and orchestra are used and combined.

Requiem in D Minor- Mozart

Mozart was not in the best state of mind when he received an anonymous commission to compose a Requiem Mass. His health was deteriorating and he believed he had been cursed to write a requiem as a ‘swansong’ for himself, because he was sure he was about to die.

Isles of the Dead- Rachmaninoff

This work was inspired by the painting by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin. Böcklin's haunting painting depicts an island, in front of which stands a barricade of stones. Further out from it, jutting high out of the sea, is a huge rock, within which are large chambers for the dead. A boat can be seen on the waters operated by a black-clad helmsman, whose white-robed passenger stands ghost-like.

Symphony No. 103- Haydn

Between the two high-profile London residencies that marked the peak of Haydn’s long career, he took on a brash new composition student from Bonn named Beethoven...Within weeks they both realized the futility of the experience—a clash of personalities and a battle of wills, undermined, even in its best moments, by the unspoken fact that Haydn was really Beethoven’s second choice, since Mozart had died the previous December.

From the Middle Ages Suite- Glazunov

Literally couldn't find anything but some weird anecdotes from his wiki page

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https://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/berlioz-symphonie-fantastique.html

https://www.wrti.org/post/story-about-gustav-holsts-planets

https://music.allpurposeguru.com/2018/02/danse-macabre-camille-saint-saens/

https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.557757&catNum=557757&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English

https://interlude.hk/brahms-late-piano-works-klavierstucke-op-118/

http://www.favorite-classical-composers.com/totentanz.html

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/guides/mozart-requiem-full-works-concert-highlight-week/

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/the-isle-of-the-dead-symphonic-poem-op-29-mc0002367200

https://cso.org/uploadedFiles/1_Tickets_and_Events/Program_Notes/ProgramNotes_Haydn_Symphony103.pdf

[soracities]

Best books you've read written by women? I hate reading stuff written by men lately...

Fiction(ish)

The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa

A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Paris, When It's Naked, Etel Adnan

Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill

My Sister, The Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite

Possession, A.S. Byatt

Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood

The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney

The Doll's Alphabet, Camilla Grudova

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

The People in the Room, Norah Lange

Água Viva, Clarice Lispector

Collected Stories, Clarice Lispector

The Empty Book, Josefina Vicens

Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson

The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

White Teeth, Zadie Smith

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

The Waves and Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Non-Fiction:

Second-hand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Svetlana Alexievich

A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

Bluets, Maggie Nelson

Living, Thinking, Looking, Siri Hustvedt

Feel Free: Essays, Zadie Smith

The Need for Roots, Simone Weil

Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg

An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

Little Weirds, Jenny Slate

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Women Who Run with Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton

Poetry:

The War Works Hard, Dunya Mikhail

Barefoot Souls and A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor, Maram al-Masri

Tell Me and Wild Nights, Kim Addonizio

What the Living Do, Marie Howe

What We Carry, Dorianne Laux

Extracting the Stone of Madness, Alejandra Pizarnik

Poppies in Translation, Sujata Bhatt

The Neverfield: A Poem, Nathalie Handal

Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women

View with a Grain of Sand, Wislawa Szymborska

The Black Unicorn, Audre Lorde

[soracities]

a few more!

Alligator & Other Stories, Dima Alzayat (everyone & their mother read this please)

They: A Sequence of Unease, Kay Dick

Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link

The Lonely City, Olivia Laing

The Fourth Island, Sarah Tolmie

On Photography, Susan Sontag

The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories, Angela Carter

The Sadeian Woman, Angela Carter

My Brilliant Friend, ElenaFerrante

Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels

All We Saw: Poems, Anne Michaels

[thingsfromthedirt]

The Party on the Stairs by Adelaide Claxton (c. 1875)

[antigonick]

For those of you who asked, here’s a list of some of my favourite poems:

Soleil et Chair (Sun and Flesh), Arthur Rimbaud Litany, Rebecca Linderberg A Myth of Devotion, Louise Glück L’Après-Midi d’un Faune (The Afternoon of The Faun), Stéphane Mallarmé Fever 103°, Sylvia Plath It’s No Use, Sappho (tr. Barnard) Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes, Rainer Maria Rilke The Glass Essay, Anne Carson Alchimie du Verbe (Alchemy of the Word), Arthur Rimbaud I Will Wade Out, E. E. Cummings Mrs. Beast, Carol Ann Duffy Elsa au Miroir (Elsa at The Mirror), Louis Aragon To Fanny, John Keats The First Elegy, Rainer Maria Rilke Persephone The Wanderer (I), Louise Glück Mad Girl Love Song, Sylvia Plath He Seems to Me, Sappho (tr. Carson) F. de Samara to A. G. A., Emily Brontë Pietà, Rainer Maria Rilke (and its many translations) To Proserpine (Orphic Hymn), Anonymous The Unicorn, Angela Carter Saying Your Names, Richard Siken Apparition, Stéphane Mallarmé The Tiger, Pablo Neruda Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath Clair de Lune, Roland Leighton I Like My Body When, E. E. Cummings When We With Sappho, Kenneth Rexroth Look On This Picture and On This, Christina Rossetti Nacciyar Tirumoli, Andal (tr. Sarukkai Chabria) Zuleikha, Rumi Marathon, Louise Glück The Red Poppy, Louise Glück The Concert of Hyacinths, Odysseus Elytis (tr. by Kimon Friar) Song for an Ancient City, Amal El-Mohtar Prayers in a Temple, Yusuf al-Khal (tr. by Abdullah al-Udhari) The Convent Threshold, Christina Rossetti Letter to Husband, Emily Berry my love, E. E. Cummings Glanmore Sonnet X, Seamus Heaney Plead for Me, Emily Brontë

[perro-sandia]

“heriré con luz tus cárceles tristes y oscuras”

— Fernando de Rojas . La Celestina

[perro-sandia]

“Mira qué piedras, y qué edificios’’ (…) “De cierto os digo, que no será dejada aquí piedra sobre piedra, que no sea destruida”

— Marcos 13:1 ; Mateo 24:2

[wedarkacademia]

[smoothwhisper]

[lunamonchtuna]

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (via lunamonchtuna)

[playlists-in-fall]

- songs for driving with the windows down, but give it a shitty attitude and make it fun (mostly rock variations)

alaska - magic bronson

baddest motherfucker in the beehive - the delta riggs

beta fish - vundabar

british bombs - declan mckenna

broken boy - cage the elephant

c’est la vie - weathers

the change - teen mortgage

changing - the airborne toxic event

cheap thrills - fake shark

chelsea dagger - the fratellis

citizen kane - hyukoh

close your eyes - mom rock

clouds & cream - sticky fingers

crash and burn - forty feet tall

the devil - the rapture

disaster - the blue van

do your worst - the happy fits

does this mean you’re moving on? - the airborne toxic event

don gon do it - the rapture

drugs - parrotfish

evil eye - franz ferdinand

exoskeleton - dan luke and the raid

hayloft - mother mother

hitchhiking - parrotfish

i don’t dance - I hate myself because

the implication - parrotfish

in one year - cage the elephant

lampshades on fire - modest mouse

luxury of self destruction - ttrruuces

miami - parrotfish

my way - mom rock

no hands - attica riots

nowhere - friday pilots club

old yellow bricks - arctic monkeys

panic - attica riots

stfu - ttrruuces

stupid girl - garbage

suzerainty - polite fiction

vampire disco - friday pilots club

xylophone - mom rock

walk the night - skatt bros

we don’t wanna talk - friday pilots club

whoo! alright - yeah…uh huh. - the rapture

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Vintage 1950s Penguin paperbacks with their original dustjackets

[academiaatitsfinest]

A throe upon the features- A hurry in the breath - An ecstasy of parting Denominated "Death" - — Emily Dickinson

[ancientsstudies]

Oscar Wilde’s Handwritten Edits to The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[danskjavlarna]

We wear orchids while we clean the toilet, too. 

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Archival advertisements reveal the trends of their time: here’s my collection of vintage ads.

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[fiere-violet]

The ‘Dance of the Wilis’ Giselle by Ran Chilipye