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“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.”

— Roberto Bolaño

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Roberto Bolaño, April 28, 1953 – July 15, 2003.

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“Now all I read is poetry. Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game. I don’t know if you follow me, Professor. Only poetry—and let me be clear, only some of it—is good for you, only poetry isn’t shit.”

—Roberto Bolaño, 2666

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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Frances

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This is what I am writing at the moment. Shaping dreams, memories, and fantasies into a compelling narrative.

#bookstagram #sneakpeek #newbook #writersofinstagram #writerslife #readersofinstagram #beatgeneration #beatnik #literaryfiction #literature

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Bats play an essential role in pest control, pollinating plants and dispersing seeds. Recent studies estimate that bats eat enough pests to save more than $1 billion per year in crop damage and pesticide costs in the United States corn industry alone.

I’m heading to the desert ranch this weekend to plant palm trees for the western yellow bat…and shade !! 🥵

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FH painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff

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dedicated post to the most underrated beat poet Elise Cowen 🥀 Emily white witch of Amherst “The shy white witch of Amherst killed her teachers with love i’ll rather mine entomb my mind”

I've started studying a few schools of poetry and will continue self-studying Latin and Middle English again. I've been distancing myself from thesis stuff because I kind of got angry, and then I realized I should definitely do a holiday in my own city. This means I can restudy my university things to get back to what I'm most good at analysing poetry and books connected with historical symbolism. I discovered Elise Cowen while on a few pages written on beat generation’s characteristics. It’s been one of my favourite schools of poetry due to their freeing yet agitated voices, that reflects the foundation of postmodern poetry: liberation, rejection of literary norms, and rejection of materialism. That part always spoke to me, even though I kind of disliked studying post-1900s literature during uni. I ended up falling in love with some of the artistic movements. This poem reflects the dark beauty of Dickinson’s writing style as well as what poetry means. Through the destruction of no longer existing teachers, poets like Dickinson can move forward in a freeing form to produce something unbound by accepted norms. As if digging through the mudded earth, Cowen and Dickinson rejected the authoritarian concepts about ways of living as poets. I hope you also check her other works because I definitely need to read her other poems in the future!

ig: @merueiledreams

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Closing Time by Tom Waits Asylum 1973 Jazz / Blues / Piano Blues / Singer-Songwriter / Pop / Ballad / Folk / Beat Poetry / Torch Songs

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Ginsberg Stamp

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I hosted a cocktail night for a few of my friends last night and I felt a lot like a 1950’s New York Beat poet with my liquor and my cocktail shaker and my yellow camels. I too feel like a 1950’s New York Beat poet this morning with my headache and my misery. Allen Ginsberg would be proud.

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Feeling very Naked Lunch (1991)

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“ A Supermarket in California “.- Allen Ginsburg.