March 2012
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''Our Whole Life' by Adrienne Rich
“Our whole life a translation the permissible fibs and now a knot of lies eating at itself to get undone Words bitten thru words ~~ meanings burnt-off like paint under the blowtorch All those dead letters rendered into the oppressor’s language Trying to tell the doctor where it hurts like the Algerian who waled form his village, burning his whole body a could of pain and there...
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tamburina: 8.Borgeby gard, Fladie, SwedenAugust... →
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Borgeby gard, Fladie, Sweden
August 12, 1904
I want to talk to you again for a little while, dear Mr. Kappus, although there is almost nothing I can say that will help you, and I can hardly find one useful word. You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. And you say that even…
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Watch‘The Hidden World of Shadi Ghadirian’
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‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the...
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‘Fade Into You’ - Mazzy Star
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“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman (from ‘Song of Myself’, v. 51)
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Watch‘Reasoning With Idols’ with Wang Guangyi
from Changing Genres by Dean Young
earlyfrost:
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, […] but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
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‘Candle Chant (A Tribute)‘ - DJ Krush...
“All I want from myself is to observe life. There’s a glass sheet between me and...”
– Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)