#shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities

[luthienne]

Olena Kalytiak Davis, from Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities; "she (as sonnet)"

[Text ID: I was so weighed down: anchor-hearted, lead-souled.]

[calamitydaze]

hell was the journey but it brought me heaven: welcome home, george.

georgenootfound // why three is the magic number // dream, on soulmates // dream team discord icons // home, edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros // correspondence, albert camus to maria casarès // the kids aren’t alright, fall out boy // sapnap and dream // friedrich nietzsche // george and sapnap // dreamygeorgenap // shattered sonnets, love cards, and other off and back handed importunities, olena kalytiak davis // dream and george // first day of my life, bright eyes // georgenotfound // today is the first day of the rest of my life, john denver // on the drive home, NIKI // beetlejuices // in the café of lost youth, patrick modiano // dream, sapnap, and georgenotfound // flesh of mine, novana venerable

[northwindow]

What are your favourite ever books

❤️ oof such a hard question! i have a strong recency bias, and almost never re-read anything. but here are some favorites:

the topeka school by ben lerner

the glass eye by jeannie vanasco

the idiot (and either/or) by elif batuman

pilgrim at tinker creek by annie dillard

amrita by banana yoshimoto

chilean poet by alejandro zambra

the outline trilogy by rachel cusk

dalva by jim harrison

shattered sonnets, love cards, and other off and back handed importunities by olena kalytiak davis

the wild iris by louise glück (goat— rip ❤️)

frank: sonnets by diane seuss

another country by james baldwin

hot milk by deborah levy

cassandra at the wedding by dorothy baker

pilgrim bell by kaveh akbar

the story of my teeth by valeria luiselli

motherhood by sheila heti

madness rack & honey by mary ruefle

the poetics of space by gaston bachelard

all of it singing by linda gregg

from from by monica youn

[25shadesoffebruary]

"I have cleared this space for you, for you, for you." -Olena Kalytiak Davis, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities.

KinnPorsche (2022). Dir. Khom Kongkiat

[unalteredgraces]

on joel & ellie and love;  

cardigan (voice memo) by taylor swift / clocks by coldplay / x /  make of it by half alive / x / cocaine jesus by rainbow kitten surprise /  shattered sonnets, love cards, and other off and back handed importunities by olena kalytiak davis / killer by phoebe bridgers / white ferrari by frank ocean

[metaphorformetaphor]

O, to be stung by an errant bee. O, to sting. O, to see you again. Covered in spring.

Olena Kalytiak Davis, from “in the clear long after,” Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities (Bloomsbury USA, 2003)    

[weltenwellen]

Olena Kalytiak Davis, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities

[saintsebastiensbf]

Olena Kalytiak Davis, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities

Sharon Olds, True Love

Stephen Crane, In The Desert

Cameron Awkward-Rich, Meditations in an Emergency

ANTIGONE: The fields were wet. They were waiting for something to happen. The whole world was breathless, waiting. I can’t tell you what a roaring noise I seemed to make alone on the road. It bothered me that whatever was waiting, wasn’t waiting for me.

Jean Anouilh, Antigone

Etel Adnan, The Spring Flowers Own & The Manifestations of the Voyage

I’m trying to give you everything I have. But I can’t find it; I can’t find it yet.

Alice Notley, In The Pines

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

& if I were to forgive you (& I know I could)

who would be left

who would be left

to forgive me?

Hieu Minh Nguyen, Afterwards

Mahmoud Darwish, Mural

Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost

“You kiss the back of my legs and I want to cry. Only / the sun has come this close, only the sun.”

Shauna Barbosa, GPS

Mahmoud Darwish, Mural

Forough Farrokhzad, Another Birth

repetition in poetry // part i

(part ii) (part iii) (part iv) (part v)

[llovelymoonn]

on love

audrey niffenegger the time traveler’s wife \\ brooklyn (2015) dir. john crowley \\ nizar tawfiq qabbani green lantern on damascus' door \\ ron hicks indian summer \\ sharon olds true love \\ ron hicks kisses and coffee (2014) \\ olena kalytiak davis shattered sonnets, love cards, and other off and back handed importunities \\ daniel gerhartz with you (2015) \\ jessie burton the miniaturist

kofi

[indecisivegloom]

Olena Kalytiak Davis, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities

[seaanimalonland]

from dear reader, flannelled and tulled | Olena Kalytiak Davis

Reader unmov’d and Reader unshaken, Reader unseduc’d and unterrified, through the long-loud and the sweet-still I creep toward you. Toward you, I thistle and I climb.

Olena Kalytiak Davis, from “dear reader, flannelled and tulled,” Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities (Bloomsbury/Tin House, 2003)

via memoryslandscape

[luthienne]

Olena Kalytiak Davis, from Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities; "in the clear long after"

[va-lhalla]

Did I mention my first kiss was extracted by someone who never should have been that lucky?

Olena Kalytiak Davis, Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities

[lifeinpoetry]

I JUST WANTED TO SAY MEADOW ONCE AND REALLY MEAN IT TO SAY ( C)LOVER ONCE AND MAYBE ONCE SAY (S)UN AND (PL)UCK I JUST WANTED TO GO ON WITHOUT WHISPERING: SOUL SOUL SOUL CAUSE, SO WHAT SOUL, SO FUCKING WHAT?

— Olena Kalytiak Davis, from “another sign off,″ Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities

[luthienne]

Olena Kalytiak Davis, from Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities; "in one of my lives—"

[luthienne]

Olena Kalytiak Davis, from Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities; "the true repertory of the wrack and redemption of sir olena kalytiak davis”