#maithuna

[ncagutierrezart]

The stars are brighter tonight

[ordoacephaliorientis]

oAo Sex Magik

[soracities]

Octavio Paz, ‘Maithuna’, A Tale of Two Gardens

[jynzandtonic]

Your bookshelf is beautiful!! Could you list some of your favorite books please? 💖

D’aww! Thank you, friend!  This... was the ask that ended me last night. I got down to the poetry bit, then drunk me decided it was extremely important to read “Maithuna” by Paz. RIP me. So, anyway. Here’s way more than you want!

I tend to read a lot of polysci/sociology and theory, but I’m going to ~avoid~ being like, “Ah! yes, my favorite books include Masculine Domination by Pierre Bordieu and all of this other completely insufferable bullshit!” 

Some all-time faves

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Collected Schizophrenias - Esme Weijun Wang

aint i a woman - bell hooks

The Bhagavad Gita - I really like Easwaran’s translation

When Women Were Birds - Terry Tempest Williams

The Chronology of Water - Lydia Yuknavitch 

Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde

Uses of the Erotic - Audre Lorde

AH FUCK I should put some fiction in here

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere - ZZ Packer

The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Babette’s Feast - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

I have a metric fuckload of poetry recs, so I won’t get too deep into it BUT

Selected Poems (1984) - Octavio Paz 

Spring and All - William Carlos Williams

Deaf Republic - Ilya Kaminsky

100 Love Sonnets: Cien Sonetos de Amor - Pablo Neruda (IMPORTANT: get the ENGLISH AND SPANISH EDITION translated by Stephen Tapscott, do not fuck around with other versions, the ISBN is 0292760280)

[arjuna-vallabha]

Maithuna ( Loving Couple) probably Rajasthan

[besitosconsaboracoco]

Anoche

En tu cama

Éramos tres:

Tú yo la luna.

Octavio Paz

[finita--la--commedia]

My eyes discover you naked and cover you with a warm rain of glances

Octavio Paz (1914 - 1998), from “Maithuna” in: “Octavio Paz. Selected Poems”. Edited by Eliot Weinberger

[octaviopaz-world]

Octavio Paz. Maithuna. Hacia el comienzo. [08]