November 2009
Reasons to Survive November
November like a train wreck – as if a locomotive made of cold had hurtled out of Canada and crashed into a million trees, flaming the leaves, setting the woods on fire. The sky is a thick, cold gauze – but there’s a soup special at the Waffle House downtown, and the Jack Parsons show is up at the museum, full of luminous red barns. – Or maybe I’ll visit beautiful Donna, the kickboxing queen from...
October 2009
My Poet →
A fantastic essay by my friend and teacher, Naeem Murr (who also won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) on what it means to love a poet.
“Hold on, man. We don’t go anywhere with “scary,”...”
– From Scooby-Doo
“Proof of our society’s decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight...”
– David Kirby
“I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds...”
– It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. By Colin Nissan (via joshisinfinite)
inothernews:
hold you in my arms | ray...
“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a...”
– Charles Bukowski (via blackironprison) (via libraries)
“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via dondante)
ewilcox:
Matthew Rohrer reading “Morning Glory...
Laureate Ex Machina: How John Ashbery Composes... →
Christopher Robinson’s hilarious take on the method of poet John Ashbery. (Plus, the inimitable Peter Stitt is mentioned. Hi, P!)
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out — Cat Stevens
...
How perilous it is to choose not to love the life we’re shown.
-Seamus Heaney
thefranticsearch:joshisinfinite:anaisescobar:oldhol...
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via bbones) (via dondante)
“concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is but one elementary...”
– (via augustbach)
- Goethe
Let me be the first to reblog you, Mr. Bach. Welcome to Tumblr. For anyone who doesn’t know, August is an amazing visual artist whom you should all follow immediately. And, he is an infinite goof.
And now back to your regularly-scheduled program.
I Have News for You There are people who do not see a broken playground swing as a symbol of ruined childhood and there are people who don’t interpret the behavior of a fly in a motel room as a mocking representation of their thought process. There are people who don’t walk past an empty swimming pool and think about past pleasures irrecoverable and then stand there blocking the sidewalk for...
certain-songs:
The Cave Singers - “Beach...
What I'm Working With
A student (college student) emailed me at 3am to ask me for my email address so that he could send me his paper that is already two days late.
Student: Hey profesor, culd u send me ur email address so I can sned u my paper? thanks.
Me: No.
“The thing that is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people...”
– John Irving (via bblove)
We were just debating Irving the other night, whom I love despite his graphic nature and occassional tendency toward offensively written female characters. And now I love this quote.
(via beenthinking)
joshisinfinite:
An interview with Leonard Cohen...
First Love
They say the first love is the most important. That’s very romantic but it’s not the case with me. There was something between us yet there wasn’t. It transpired and expired. My hands don’t tremble, when I stumble upon small mementos or a stack of letters wrapped in twine —not even a ribbon. Our only meeting after all these years is a conversation between two chairs at a cold table. Other loves...
“Five years of my life and the dream that I had of myself, all down the tubes...”
– Junot Diaz - via paperbackgirl (via walkwhilereading)
Most poets, it may be, are heroes spoiled; they know somewhat of the unknown, and suffer from it; the usual measure of their esoteric worth must still be the measure of their mundane impracticability: like Hamlet, they have seen spirits, and forswear deeds for phrases. Artists and thinkers, in fact, must outwardly follow the profession of the queen bee, not as yet with honor, nor by general...
The way a person can burn through you, making scrap and ruin of a whole year of your life, sucking four seasons’ worth of oxygen out of your dreams and desires, eating you like barbecue, flame-licking their fingers with hot tongues of what feels like spite, killing in the short term, but in the long, somehow saving the deeper growth, the forest as a whole - the idea, but maybe not the...
happy birth(day), e.e. cummings
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching...
30 GOP Senators defend rape, basically. →
It is stunning that 30 Republican members of the United States Senate would vote to protect a corporation, in this case Halliburton/KBR, over a woman who was gang raped. The details from Think Progress:
In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food,...
“Let this leave me so something else can land.”
– Siken (via dondante)
Run outside during a thunderstorm, that downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration, that’s what unlonely is like.
— rumi (via scribble-scribbles via suzywire)
