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i hug you and breathe in your essence: ephemeral galaxies (planets, luminary and stars). you hold on to me with commensurate onrush to mine, trying to hold me, contain me, keep me intact, around us the sky falls, and constellations fall into the ocean whole. and the moon, the moon visibly laments, and mourns and deplores, because we are too fatuous to do it ourselves.
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when georges bataille wrote, “no greater desire exists than a wounded person’s need for another wound” & when gillian flynn wrote, “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” & when ocean vuong wrote, “sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined” & when lisa m. basile wrote, “did you inherit a sickness? did you blame god? do you believe in god? do you believe in yourself? are you still on fire? did you ever put out the fire?” & when stephen a. guirgis wrote, “why didn't you make me good enough so that you could’ve loved me?”
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here it is a collection of poems about hope and or holding on despite everything !
I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
Snowdrops by Louise Glück
Most Days I Want to Live by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Insha’Allah by Danusha Laméris
A Good Day by Kait Rokowski
Invitation by Mary Oliver
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
Tommorow is a Place by Sanna Wani
The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke
To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks
Night Walk by Franz Wright
Sorrow is Not My Name by Ross Gay
Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte
The Letter by Linda Greg
Testify by Eve L. Ewing
Every Day as a Wide Field, Every Page by Naomi Shihab Nye
I love this. I especially liked Insha’Allah, A Good Day, Instruction on Not Giving Up, the World Has Need of You, Night Walk, and Testify
The train is late and your family is dead
I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it. ― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking | The Mentalist season 1, episode 7: Seeing Red | Linda Pastan, The Five Stages of Grief | The Mentalist season 2, episode 23: Red Sky in the Morning | teashoesandhair, grief | The Mentalist season 1, episode 5: Redwood | Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (for Beatrice) | The Mentalist season 4, episode 23: Red Rover, Red Rover | The Mentalist season 5, episode 2: Devil's Cherry | Anne Carson, Glass, irony and god | Jamie Anderson | Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides | The Mentalist season 7, episode 13: White Orchids | Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
literally going insane. marianne i’m not a religious person but I do sometimes think god made you for me.
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what were your favourite quotes/those with the most impact that you read this year?
i’m expanding this to talk about poems and collections too because i am That Guy.
POETRY COLLECTIONS and CHAPBOOKS
NIGHT SKY WITH EXIT WOUNDS by OCEAN VUONG
[INSERT] BOY by DANEZ SMITH
BRIGHT DEAD THINGS BY ADA LIMÓN
UNSKITTISH by DALTON DAY
POEMS
“wandering around an albuquerque airport terminal” by naomi shihab nye (not everything is lost.)
“good bones” by maggie smith (this place could be beautiful, / right? you could make this place beautiful)
“tim riggins speaks of waterfalls” by nico alvarado (i want to walk into the heart of you / and never walk back out)
“untitled” by daedalians (my brain is moonless)
“when you tell me i’m beautiful i sometimes believe it by tangledghosts aka the light of my life (i say, “these are all the ugly parts that i am trying to hide.” you say, “show me your ugliness and i will show you your beauty.” we are both showing the same card)
“it’s not what it looks like” by exit152 (god or no god? / rhetorical question. / i’ve met the boundary. / i feel something holy in every trick of light)
twenty dollars & the moon by mason shreve (sometimes we float when we try to walk & sometimes, i swear, my hands are made of canyons)
QUOTES
“i myself have lots of repressed skies / but i do not kill stars” || kiki dimoula, “explosive finding”
“like any / unloved thing, i don’t know if i’m real / when i’m not being touched” || natalie wee, “loneliness”
“i thought / i would be someone else / by now. the rain starts flinging itself / against the pavement. my face / is a lost glove, missing / for days. my face / is on vacation, call back / another time.” || marty mcconnell, “still life with tattoo gun and umbrella”
“god is the night / i must not creep into” || cynthia cruz, “joe the lion ii”
“how lonely to be something that nothing wants to kill” || jeremy radin, “so i locked myself inside of a star for 20 years”
“you cut up a thing that’s alive and beautiful to find out how it’s alive and why it’s beautiful, and before you know it, it’s neither of those things, and you’re standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.” || clive barker, the damnation game
“i am sick of haunting myself / from within / like an old house” || erica jong, “bitter herb”
“how strange we are. how different we are from how we think we are. we fall out of love only to fall in love with a duplicate of what we’ve left, never understanding that we love what we love and that it doesn’t change.” || sara majka; saint andrews hotel
“i sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / i am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn’t have at dusk.” || joy harjo, “the first day without a mother”
“the sycamore of loneliness they call it / daydreams while the ax is still afraid / of being alone” || frank stanford, “nobody is going to touch me”
“you think i can’t tame that? i always come home. always. / ravenous. loaded. you know better than anybody: / i’m bigger than god.” || jeanann verlee, “the mania speaks”
“i will not / let this river break me just so god / can have something to heal.” || allie long, “self-injury”
“a small catalogue of things i’ve lost: my heart down a sink drain. my voice in the dungeon of language. my body to the great gripping fists of men.” || alicia catt, “when i put bluebeard’s keys in my pocket they stain my dress & i hope you don’t notice
“nothing knows the sound of abandonment like a highway does, not even God.” || hanif abdurraqib, “when we were 13, jeff’s father left the needle down on a journey record before leaving the house one morning and never coming back
“the sounds in the air / agreeing not to be birds.“ || alexis almeida, “elegy (figure in light)
“i have wanted / many unfair things. / what is most unfair/ is that the earth is still okay / with me being here / i think, and even / encourages it.” || melissa broder, “satisfy the desolate”
“you don’t want to hear the story / of my life, and anyway / i don’t want to tell it, i want to listen / to the enormous waterfalls of the sun. / and anyway it’s the same old story— / a few people just trying, / one way or another, / to survive. / mostly, i want to be kind.” || mary oliver, “dogfish”
“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
— Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” Deaf Republic
“No soul ever goes dark enough for you.”
— Anne Carson, from Plainwater: Essays and Poetry; The Anthropology of Water.
“What part of yourself did you have to destroy in order to survive in the world this year? But most importantly: what have you found to be unkillable?”
— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness,” published in The Poetry Project
how long have you been feeling like this
how long have you been feeling
how long have you been like this
how long have you been this
— Amy Saul-Zerby, from “Trust the Process,” published in Queen Mob’s Tea House
Currently reading:
I was always more sympathetic to Katherine Howard more than any of them, oddly enough.
I’m an English Literature major. And I still spent that one summer in 2005 obsessed with reading Dan Brown books.
Not that the man is technically gifted. Of course he is not.
But I absolutely get what one reviewer said about The Da Vinci Code:
“Look, it’s terrible. But you can’t put the bloody thing down.”
Question for my followers: Books you changed your mind on after reading a second time?
I’ll start: The Mezzanine by Nicholsen Baker.
I remember reading it when I was 18 and thinking it was the most pretentious, annoying post-modern shit ever. The “fancy” stuff they make you study at college. I found it boring.
Then I read it again at 25: Oh, it is a work of complete genius about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.’
271 | “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
233 | I asked twitter which book I should read next and it looks like Great Expectations was the answer
