always, to look life in the face

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[jeanettewintersons]

James Baldwin, from Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)

[jeanettewintersons]

“That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”

— Haruki Murakami, from 1Q84 (2009-10)

[girlmimesis]

details of armor of Emperor Ferdinand I (1549) at the MMoA

[jareckiworld]

Juhani Linnovaara (1934-2022) — The Gallery Guests [oil on canvas, 1985]

[jeanettewintersons]

Angela Carter, from The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)

[jeanettewintersons]

June Jordan, “Meta-rhetoric”

[jeanettewintersons]

Wisława Szymborska, excerpt from “Water”

[jeanettewintersons]

Herman Melville, from Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)

[terminusantequem]

Karen Black (Australian, b. 1961), World Apart, 2019. Oil on canvas, 152 x 122 cm

[jeanettewintersons]

Virginia Woolf, from Orlando (1928)

[jeanettewintersons]

Jeff VanderMeer, from Annihilation (2014) 

[jeanettewintersons]

Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963

[terminusantequem]

Mochtar Apin (Indonesian, 1923-1994), Senam, 1990. Oil on canvas, 88 x 59 cm

[jeanettewintersons]

Anne Rice, from Interview with the Vampire (1973)

[roserosette]

I Walked with a Zombie, 1943, Jacques Tourneur

[terminusantequem]

Jamil Naqsh (Pakistani, 1938-2019), Untitled (Yellow Nude), 1998. Ink and gouache on cardboard, 40.6 x 33 cm

[jeanettewintersons]

"And so poetry is not a shopping list, a casual disquisition on the colors of the sky, a soporific daydream, or bumpersticker sloganeering. Poetry is a political action undertaken for the sake of information, the faith, the exorcism, and the lyrical invention, that telling the truth makes possible. Poetry means taking control of the language of your life. Good poems can interdict a suicide, rescue a love affair, and build a revolution in which speaking and listening to somebody becomes the first and last purpose to every social encounter."

June Jordan