#poets square

[bestbookcover]

round 1, poll 316

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which cover do you like best?

Poets Square A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life Essays by Samantha Irby

Voting ended onJan 20

remember, you're voting for the cover, not the author or the book!

[buecherei]

Feral, for all the wildness it implies, just means that an animal was abandoned by the system that created it.

— Courtney Gustafson, Poets Square

[reneees]

The lover of ease champagne.

In the sea of blood rucksack.

In the sign of Hollywood.

Tell them rue.

Ask the word of star.

In the season of summer, he is the sun.

If he only loved us.

All I want.

I fell.

In the dance bloom I.

In the car attics of sonatas.

In the time essays of lure.

In the dance lightsaber.

I.

Dance roses

Sunidhi

[kammartinez]

The casual misogyny of cat rescue wasn’t new to me. It was the same misogyny I had experienced when I worked at the front desk of a mostly male gym, the same sexism as the office politics at my desk job, just another variation of the low-level fear I kept with me anywhere I walked alone. There was nothing shocking about it. What I didn’t expect was the way the misogyny was directed at the cats themselves. I was used to hearing human women slut-shamed; it was new to me that men would call cats sluts.

-- from Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson

[kamreadsandrecs]

It was a simple fact of capitalism, an open secret, that most of us would not succeed. … In reality, any sense of community felt antithetical to all of it. There could only be one of us.

-- from Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats

By Courtney Gustafson.

[kammartinez]

I hated the implication—that men didn’t like cats, or would begrudge their partner the tenderness it took to sit all night in the driveway, petting the tiny heads of the kittens that kept being born. Or that it mattered, that the most important factor in trying to save the lives of abandoned animals was my boyfriend’s approval. That I would stop if he asked.

-- from Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson

[kammartinez]

I never learned what to expect from love. What are we supposed to tolerate? What do we deserve in return?

-- from Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson