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Trashcanman

Bluets | Maggie Nelson

“I‘m not interested in longing to live in a world in which I already live”

Someone please hit the reset button.

mcctrish I‘m all for a reset button 2w

Trashcanman @mcctrish Hi Patricia! How have you been? 2w

Deblovestoread If only …. 😬 2w

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Trashcanman @Deblovestoread If the world isn‘t worth flooding now I can‘t imagine the way it was back then when that famous story said the angry “man” flooded the earth. 2w

mcctrish I‘m so happy to see you post! You are always on my mind. Right now I‘m happy to live in 🇨🇦 although a federal election is being called tomorrow so ….. 2w

Trashcanman @mcctrish I wish I lived in Canada. The shit over here is disturbing, embarrassing, and cause for despair. 2w

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GatheringBooks

Twenty Prose Poems | Charles Baudelaire

#PoetryMatters Day 3: #Unbending

TheSpineView

TheSpineView 💜💜💜 10mo

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GatheringBooks

Twenty Prose Poems | Charles Baudelaire

#PoetryMatters Day 3: #Unbending

TheSpineView

TheSpineView Beautiful poem 11mo

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Bibliobear

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | Elizabeth Smart

“How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.”

Remembering Elizabeth Smart on her birthday.

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Robotswithpersonality

Bluets | Maggie Nelson

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Amazing how exhausting less than a hundred pages can be. Feels like someone trying to journal through heartbreak/loss and unsuccessfully distract themselves with musing on the significance of a colour.
While blue has associations with sadness, depression, it almost feels like the author could have chosen any colour and meandered off into reflections and neat or disturbing trivia about it. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Writing does get 'blue' in parts but it doesn't make the overall project more interesting.
I'm a little suspicious of the amount of this spare text that's actually (credited) quotations from other people.
There are pretty word pictures, but to a certain extent it's a deeply personal catharsis that means more/makes more sense to the writer than it ever will to the reader. 1y

Robotswithpersonality 3/? As much as it's cute as a small book, I think considering how art-conscious the subject matter can become, I could see it being a more appealing object if it was heavily coffee-table-booked: each page in different shade of blue, images of different blue art pieces/objects in facing pages, one two-page spread for each of these numbered snippet-essays. 1y

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 Presumably her disabled friend knew she was featured in the passages of this work, but I wish we hear more from her directly, it's not quite voyeuristic or exploitative or objectifying, but something about the writing in reference to her friend felt weird to me.

⚠️Suicidal ideation, depression, r slur 1y

The_Book_Ninja I‘m here mostly for reviews and this one is excellent. 1y

Robotswithpersonality @The_Book_Ninja Thanks! 1y

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Robotswithpersonality

Bluets | Maggie Nelson

Wh- Okay... I have learned a new thing.

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AllDebooks

The Trees, the Trees | Heather Christle

#Naturalitsy #Midwintersolace

I'm 💯 a tree sprite. Are you?

Soubhiville I very much am. And if I can find a creek/ stream/ waterfall in the woods, that is my heaven! 1y

AllDebooks @Soubhiville yes 🌲❤️🌲 1y

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Kshakal

The Trees, the Trees | Heather Christle

#trees #humbleharvest @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs I want to be there-*sigh 1y

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love 🧡 1y

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Leftcoastzen

Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell | Charles Simic

#idiominsight of course #ADimeADozen means more like , I had so many ripe zucchini at harvest time , I couldn‘t even get a dime a dozen for them.😄But I thought of old Dime stores like Woolworth‘s or Sprouse-Reitz where a kid with some change could find a toy or cheap candy. I swooned over the paperback book racks and the comic rack!

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs This image!!!!! They had the coolest cheap toys and dolls, ah 1956… 2y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love this!! 2y

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