solitude

journal of a solitude

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from Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

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Louise Glück

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Helene Cixous, Angst

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Amelia Rosselli

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John Thorpe, “I Just Lost My Tension Again”

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Louise Glück

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John Thorpe, “I Just Lost My Tension Again”

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James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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Liliana Ponce

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throne of blood, cassandra troyan

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from Clover, Louise Glück

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Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

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Mona Sa’udi, from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (ed. & trans. Kamal Boullata)

[Text ID: “I shatter in all my dimensions I multiply I take on shapes like water.”]

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from ‘the cave’, loose sugar by brenda hillman 

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Louise Glück

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It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment—the poem embodying that sound, seems to exist somewhere already finished. It's like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims toward it, it backs away.

Louise Glück, from "Education of the Poet" in Proofs & Theories - Essays on Poetry

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I think language is beautiful. I even think insanity is beautiful (surely the root of language), except that it is painful. July 3, 1964 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977