November 2011
12 posts
yes, maggie nelson's BLUETS still does it for...
“…blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire…”
WANT
how cruel is it that it means both: to be necessary or needed, to desire, to have an inclination to and to wish for, to LACK? it means both to need and to not have. how can four such tiny letters contain such a staple of the human condition?
“…light is a liar, telling old truths…”
– ADEM “You and Moon”
Seriously, this guy is a drug I CANNOT STOP LISTENING TO HIM
Quote from "Stoner" by John Williams
So it was himself that he was attempting to define as he worked on his study. As he sanded the old boards for his bookcases, and saw the surface roughness disappear, the gray weathering flake away to the essential wood and finally to a rich purity of grain and texture - as he repaired his furniture and arranged it in the room, it was himself that he was slowly shaping, it was himself that he was...
fab opening line
“He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.”
From Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
I’m long due for a re-read…
“I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I...”
– Gut Symmetries
Jeanette Winterson
Official Custody/Arrest Bulletin Christmas Eve,...
On Christmas Eve, 1997, West Des Moines authorities arrested an “unidentified juvenile” at Valley West Mall for protesting sweat shop labor. Check out what was listed as my official “property:”
chapstick, green jacket, shirt, 1 rope necklace, 1 string necklace, 1 Bart Simpson watch, 4 rings, 1 braided bracelet, 2 earrings, wallet with $5.60
Awesome. I was SO in high...
The album “Homesongs” by Adem was my...
“Medicine, I said, begins with storytelling. Patients tell stories to describe...”
– The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Remember last year when I was telling y’all to read this? Well, it’s still true. Do it now so we can talk about it.
Some more gems from 3rd-grade Emily, 1990
“I like about any kind of store, except grown-up stores.”
“This potato does not have very many eyes. It smells like fishing lewers.”
“I am a football and I always get jamed into the star’s stomach and I don’t like it!”
“What is the quietest thing I can think of? Hair growing, brains thinking, mud flowing, people reading in a library, ants...
Gems from 1st-Grade Emily, 1989
“If I wasn’t me I’d like to be a pocket folder so I could hold papers and notes!
If I wasn’t me I’d like to be a vowel because I would be in alot of words!
But most of all I like to be me.”
“I have lots of bears and they are very, Very, cute! I have three favorite favorite bears. Their names are Browney, Grasshopper, and Ned. One night I had a party for...
