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Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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Margaret Atwood, from “Late Poems”, Dearly

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desire is suffering

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘Dream Reveals in Neon the Great Addictions, Frank Bidart ( @wahabibi ) | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Vestiges, Ángel García | Blasphemia, Eliran Kantor | So We Must Meet Apart, Jennifer S. Cheng ( @yoursoethereal ) | Prigione di Lacrime, Roberto Ferri | Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Sunday, November 4th, Simone de Beauvoir ( @theoptia ) | Ludwig Drahosch | War of the Foxes, Richard Siken ( @elfreys )

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you are not a lover you are not a yearner you have a big gaping hole in the middle of your chest and you don’t know how to fill it you live in a state of perpetual spiritual greed you are a glutton and bursting at the seams with putrid filth. btw.

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I beg you, eat me up. Want me down to the marrow. And yet manage it so as to keep me alive. But I often turn about or compromise, because I know that you won’t eat me up, in the end, and I urge you: bite me. Sign my death with your teeth.

excerpt from "Love of the Wolf" by Hélène Cixous, trans. Eric Prenowitz

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‘anti-savior savior complex’, @/asoftepilogue (tiktok) // @/cgcpoems , instagram // ‘the sun is also a star’, nicola yoon // ‘father’, the front bottoms // ‘aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe’, benjamin alire saenz // ‘mirror traps’, hera lindsay bird // ‘and my father’s love was nothing next to god’s will’, amatullah bourdon // ‘woodtangle’, mary ruefle

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Jenny Holzer.

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getting over things is nonlinear. but you already knew that

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One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

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Moms will just say the most hurtful shit off the cuff randomly like you'd need to get me to sit down for a whole day to formulate something as mean and they'll just do that shit off the dome

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i’m printing this out and i’m putting it on the mirror so i can confront myself with it

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on being left

drift, alek olsen / cheryl strayed / u.k / u.k / trista mateer / rebecca malakai / u.k / marya hornbacher / jan heller levi

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Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home (translated by Megan McDowell)

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louise glück was an tremendous poet in her own life and also taught, advised, and nurtured uncountable other poets. her picking richard siken’s crush for the yale younger poets prize is a well known fact, but she selected a number of other poets for publication during her tenure as the contest judge that i think are worth knowing.

peter streckfus, cuckoo (2003)

richard siken, crush (2004)

jay hopler, green squall (2005)

jessica fisher, frail-craft (2006)

fady joudah, the earth in the attic (2007)

arda collins, it is daylight (2008)

ken chen, juvenilia (2009)

katherine larson, radial symmetry (2010)

poetry is a community! read her—and also read the poets she wanted to promote.