#Mikhail Kaminsky

[gundamfight]

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[bringmygunplatolife]

#gundam #gunpla #kampfer #hg #custom build #bandai #mobile suit #Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket #Mikhail Kaminsky #mecha #gunplabuilder #digital art #model kit

[soracities]

what are your suggestions for starter poetry for people who dont have strong reading/analysis backgrounds

I've answered this a few times so I'm going to compile and expand them all into one post here.

I think if you haven't read much poetry before or aren't sure of your own tastes yet, then poetry anthologies are a great place to start: many of them will have a unifying theme so you can hone in based on a subject that interests you, or pick your way through something more general. I haven't read all of the ones below, but I have read most of them; the rest I came across in my own readings and added to my list either because I like the concept or am familiar with the editor(s) / their work:

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times (ed. Nick Astley) & Being Alive: The Sequel to Staying Alive (there's two more books in this series, but I'm recommending these two just because it's where I started)

The Rattlebag (ed. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes)

The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (ed. Ilya Kaminsky & Susan Harris)

The Essential Haiku, Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa (ed. Robert Hass)

A Book of Luminous Things (ed. Czesław Miłosz )

Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns by Robert Hass (this may be a good place to start if you're also looking for commentary on the poems themselves)

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World(ed. Pádraig Ó'Tuama)

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (ed. Kevin Young)

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing (ed. Kevin Young)

Lifelines: Letters from Famous People about their Favourite Poems

The following lists are authors I love in one regard or another and is a small mix of different styles / time periods which I think are still fairly accessible regardless of what your reading background is! It's be no means exhaustice but hopefully it gives you even just a small glimpse of the range that's available so you can branch off and explore for yourself if any particular work speaks to you.

But in any case, for individual collections, I would try:

anything by Sara Teasdale

Devotions / Wild Geese / Felicity by Mary Oliver

Selected Poems and Prose by Christina Rossetti

Collected Poems by Langston Hughes

Where the Sidewalk Endsby Shel Silverstein

Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez

Revolutionary Letters, Diane di Prima

Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr

Rose: Poems by Li-Young Lee

A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor / Barefoot Souls by Maram al-Masri

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Tell Me: Poems / What is This Thing Called Love? by Kim Addonizio

The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins (Billy Collins is THE go-to for accessible / beginner poetry in my view so I think any of his collections would probably do)

Crush by Richard Siken

Rapture / The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail

Selected Poems by Walt Whitman

View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska

Collected Poems by Vasko Popa

Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas (this is a play, but Thomas is a poet and the language & structure is definitely poetic to me)

Bright Dead Things: Poems by Ada Limón

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire,

Nostalgia, My Enemy: Selected Poems by Saadi Youssef

As for individual poems:

“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

[Dear The Vatican] erasure poem by Pádraig Ó'Tuama // "The Pedagogy of Conflict"

"Good Bones" by Maggie Smith

"The Author Writes the First Draft of His Weddings Vows (An erasure of Virginia Woolf's suicide letter to her husband, Leonard)" by Hanif Abdurraqib

"I Can Tell You a Story" by Chuck Carlise

"The Sciences Sing a Lullabye" by Albert Goldbarth

"One Last Poem for Richard" by Sandra Cisneros

"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky

“I’m Explaining a Few Things”by Pablo Neruda

"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" //"Nothing Gold Can Stay"//"Out, Out--" by Robert Frost

"Tablets: I // II // III"by Dunya Mikhail

"What Were They Like?" by Denise Levertov

"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden,

"The Patience of Ordinary Things" by Pat Schneider

“I, too” // "The Negro Speaks of Rivers” // "Harlem” // “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes

“The Mower” // "The Trees" // "High Windows" by Philip Larkin

“The Leash” // “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance” // "Downhearted" by Ada Limón

“The Flea” by John Donne

"The Last Rose of Summer" by Thomas Moore

"Beauty" // "Please don't" // "How it Adds Up" by Tony Hoagland

“My Friend Yeshi” by Alice Walker

"De Humanis Corporis Fabrica"byJohn Burnside

“What Do Women Want?” // “For Desire” // "Stolen Moments" // "The Numbers" by Kim Addonizio

“Hummingbird” // "For Tess" by Raymond Carver

"The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin

“Bleecker Street, Summer” by Derek Walcott

“Dirge Without Music” // "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Digging” // “Mid-Term Break” // “The Rain Stick” // "Blackberry Picking" // "Twice Shy" by Seamus Heaney

“Dulce Et Decorum Est”by Wilfred Owen

“Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition”by Wislawa Szymborska

"Hour" //"Medusa" byCarol Ann Duffy

“The More Loving One” // “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden

“Small Kindnesses” // "Feeding the Worms" by Danusha Laméris

"Down by the Salley Gardens” // “The Stolen Child” by W.B. Yeats

"The Thing Is" by Ellen Bass

"The Last Love Letter from an Entymologist" by Jared Singer

"[i like my body when it is with your]" by e.e. cummings

"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski

"The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje

"Last Night I Dreamed I Made Myself" by Paige Lewis

"A Dream Within a Dream" // "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe (highly recommend reading the last one out loud or listening to it recited)

"Ars Poetica?" // "Encounter" // "A Song on the End of the World"by Czeslaw Milosz

"Wandering Around an Albequerque Airport Terminal” // "Two Countries” // "Kindness” by Naoimi Shihab Nye

"Slow Dance” by Matthew Dickman

"The Archipelago of Kisses" // "The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel

"Mimesis" by Fady Joudah

"The Great Fires" // "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" // "Failing and Flying" by Jack Gilbert

"The Mermaid" // "Virtuosi" by Lisel Mueller

"Macrophobia (Fear of Waiting)" by Jamaal May

"Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong" by Ocean Vuong

"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

I would also recommend spending some times with essays, interviews, or other non-fiction, creative or otherwise (especially by other poets) if you want to broaden and improve how you read poetry; they can help give you a wider idea of the landscape behind and beyond the actual poems themselves, or even just let you acquaint yourself with how particular writers see and describe things in the world around them. The following are some of my favourites:

Upstream: Essays by Mary Oliver

"Theory and Play of the Duende" by Federico García Lorca

"The White Bird" and "Some Notes on Song" by John Berger

In That Great River: A Notebook by Anna Kamienska

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

"Of Strangeness That Wakes Us" and "Still Dancing: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky" by Ilya Kaminsky

"The Sentence is a Lonely Place" by Garielle Lutz

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty

Paris, When It's Naked by Etel Adnan

#ask #anonymous #beginner guides

[metaphrasis]

Any books and essays you’d recommend?

Fiction:

(Ideal for the darker, colder months)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Steppenwolf and Demian, Hermann Hesse

Just Kids, Patti Smith

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Death & the Dervish, Meša Selimović

Macbeth, Shakespeare

Essays:

On language:

Nobel Lecture (1993), Toni Morrison 

How Words Fail, Cathy Park Hong

Politics and the English Language, George Orwell

Of Strangeness That Wakes Us, Ilya Kaminsky

The Meanings of a Word, Gloria Naylor

Mother Tongue, Yoojin Grace Wuertz

Borrowing a Simile, Walt Whitman

Word Order, Lewis H. Lapham

Four Essays, Mikhail Bakhtin

Nature: Chapter IV Language, Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Strange Persistence of First Languages, Julie Sedivy

What Do You Lose When You Lose Your Language? Joshua Fishman

Here is a list of essays on translation I have recommended on a former blog

Other:

A Defence of Poetry, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Art Objects, Jeanette Winterson

Preface to the History of The Renaissance, Walter Pater

The Laugh of the Medusa, Helene Cixous

Ways of Seeing, John Berger

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin

Portraits: John Berger on Artists, John Berger

Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, James Elkins

Resources for essays: Lapham’s Quarterly, The Paris Review, Poetry Foundation

#personal

[kabillieu]

Something both annoying and wonderful about my university is that GTAs have complete creative control over the classes we teach. Yaaaayyyy!!! But also class planning feels like the Wild West. There are no boundaries, structures, or templates. Also, there's a culture of using online materials instead of expensive textbooks, which is great, but I feel very pressured to come up with 100% of my course materials on my own.

I had to have some way to filter my poetry writing class, or I was just going to continue to stupidly flounder, so I settled on the theme of "home" and broke up my semester into three subcategory units: homeland, hearth and home, and home as place. This has been a very helpful organizational device for my brain, and has allowed me to generate lots of ideas about poets who write broadly in these themes. Picking out poems for us to read has been a lot of fun.

Here are a few of the poets I'm excited to read this semester: Mahmoud Darwish, Ilya Kaminsky, Li-Young Lee, Dunya Mikhail, Hugh Martin, Victoria Kelly, Hayan Charara, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Bruce Snider, Mary Oliver, Lucille Clifton, Anne Sexton, Natasha Trethewey, Marilyn Nelson, Ada Limón, Sharon Olds, Jamaal May, Maggie Smith, Ruth Stone, Aracelis Girmay, Wendell Berry, Ross Gay, Robert Hayden, Terrance Hayes, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Adam Zagajewski, W.S. Merwin, and James Wright.

I'm sure I'll think of many more as the semester continues. I feel moderately well-read in contemporary poetry for pretty much the first time ever, so it's a good time to teach my first poetry class.

[bobbyinthegarden]

Bobby’s 2033 Reading Challenge - Nine Months Update

Here is my original post outlining this challenge

And here is my three month update

So far, I’ve read 16/25 books, so I’m making good progress and am on track. I've been slacking on my write-ups, but I will catch up soon.

Poetry: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (Full Review Here)

Essays: Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Full Review Here)

Non-Fiction: First They Killed My Father by  Loung Ung  (Full Review Here)

Fantasy: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin (Full Review Here)

Vampires: The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Full Review Here)

Re-imagined Classic: Alec by William di Canzio (Full Review Here)

Mystery: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (Full Review Here)  

Children’s Lit: The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (Full Review Here)

Audiobook: The X Files: Cold Cases by Joe Harris, Chris Carter and Dirk Maggs (Full Review Here)

Superheroes: Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins (Review Incoming)

Popular Classic Novel: Monkey (Journey to the West) by Wu Cheng'en, abridged translation by Arthur Waley (Review Incoming)

Humour / Satire: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Review Incoming)

Hero's Quest: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (Review Incoming)

Rerreading a Favourite: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Review Incoming)

Stand-alone novel: Beloved by Toni Morrison (Review Incoming)

Graphic novel: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi (Review Incoming)

#bobby's 2023 reading challenge #bobby speaks

[metamorphesque]

do you have any book recommendations? also thank you for taking time to post such beautiful posts, you're an inspiration<3

Thank you 🌼My curious friend, you should've been more specific about what genre you're more interested in for the list seems to be never-ending. I've written down the names according to different colors you might be feeling.

Shades of blue

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Swimming in the Dark, Tomasz Jedrowski

Letters to a young poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

The Castle, Franz Kafka

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Shades of green

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab

Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

Maurice, Howard’s End by E. M. Forster

Call Me By Your Name, Find Me by André Aciman

Shades of brown

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

The Metamorphosis and other stories, Franz Kafka

If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun

Golden

The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

Circe, Madeline Miller

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

Shades of yellow

Almond, Won-pyung Sohn

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yōko Ogawa

Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura

Shades of purple

Luster by Raven Leilani

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Shades of Black, White, Grey

Fish in Exile, Vi Khi Nao

The Trial, Franz Kafka

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai

1984, George Orwell

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

Shades of pink

Where Angels Fear to Tread, E. M. Forster

Death with Interruptions, José Saramago

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

Shades of red

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

Damage, Josephine Hart

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Poetry

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Crush by Richard Siken

War of the Foxes by Richard Siken

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

When My Brother Was An Aztec by Natalie Diaz

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho (Anne Carson)

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

The Complete Collected Poems by Maya Angelou

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova

#book recs #poetry recs #literature

[qqueenofhades]

WOW that ivan proposal was everything 🥺🥺🥺 him being like, “it’s exile or me” and then immediately being like nvm its actually me AND exile, him just being like fuck it and doing a spontaneous proposal in his gym clothes, and the moment when he scooted forward and buried his head in fedyor’s stomach got me because he seemed so scared. ugh he’s so far gone on fedyor. im so weak for how precious they are in your modern au. your writing kills me, thank you for your service

while we are using fictional characters to ignore all our real world problems (which 1 — good luck on your interview!!!!!! And 2 — im here to provide enablement for my hcs to ignore real life), here’s some random questions for you about them in phantom! verse — did they just have like a court marriage or did they like actually plan something more? do they still keep in touch with fedyor or ivan’s family? are there any hcs you have for them that you’re like screaming about but don’t fit into phantom/any of the asks so far? (Also feel free to ignore any of these if you address it in your fic!)

It's like Ivan, oh honey, did you really think you were fooling ANYONE when you tried the "rah rah choose me or exile!!!" Because he felt terrible about it the instant he said it, panicked, couldn't think how to take it back, and then spent the next week in a total state of Oh My God I've Ruined Everything. Because as he says, he's willing to go pretty much anywhere (even America, ew) as long as it means that he can be with Fedyor. And yes, I likewise had the Feelings about him just being like fuck it I can't wait, proposing in his gym clothes, and kneeling in front of Fedyor and burying his face into his stomach because he can't possibly contemplate the idea of losing him. Even if it means going way way WAY out of his comfort zone and everything he has ever known, because it's easy when it comes down to it.

Anyway. Yes. I love them.

As for the phantomverse questions, they got legally married soon after they arrived in New York and dealt with the various paperwork/asylum stuff, and it was just a quiet courthouse thing. This is where they first met high-powered Manhattan lawyer, son of murdered Russian oligarch Pyotr, Nikolai Lantsov, who will also be appearing in PEL. Nikolai helped them get their legal papers and their right to remain and introduced them to the Russian emigre community in Brighton Beach, which was where they settled down. They haven't had any more of a wedding ceremony than that, because they are still holding out hope (however vainly) that they can one day return to Russia and do it properly with their friends and chosen family.

On that note, they're still in sporadic contact with Fedyor's birth family. His parents know about his sexuality and that he's married to Ivan, and they're not that thrilled, but they've gotten to the place of grudging acceptance. Sometimes Fedyor's mom, Lyudmila, pulls out the "here's how you giving me grandchildren can still win" conversation, which mortifies him, but he also is touched by it, because that means she's at least accepting his life as it is. Fedyor has an older sister, Katerina, who is also generally supportive, and they email each other occasionally. His dad mostly just tries to pretend that the whole living in America/married to a man situation doesn't exist, which is hard for Fedyor, but Mikhail is secretly proud of Fedyor for his activist work and his bravery, and has resisted pressure from the extended family to disown him. Fedyor's parents sometimes send money and every once in a blue moon they will talk on the phone. Lyudmila does keep trying to convince him to move back to Russia, but Fedyor won't agree.

Unfortunately, they don't have any contact with Ivan's birth family. Part of the reason he changed his last name to Kaminsky when they got married was to be a traditional family unit, and to symbolize the break from his past and the stuff he went through with his father and brothers, who were.... not in the least understanding of the gay thing, alas. Ivan left Krasnoyarsk at least in part to get away from his oldest brother (he has four, and no sisters) who was threatening the whole "we'll show you what we do to queers around here" routine. So no, Ivan and Fedyor don't talk to them at all, but they have lots of friends in Brooklyn now (or really, Fedyor has friends that Ivan more or less tolerates) and they're happy there.

Fedyor likes to go out in New York City and see the wider world and his friends and so forth, while Ivan (who still doesn't speak much English since pretty much everyone in Brighton Beach can speak Russian) is happier staying close to home. He patiently accompanies Fedyor to whatever he wants to do, as ever, but he, in true Ivan fashion, still has about .0001 patience for anyone who isn't Fedyor. They have spent ages cleaning out and renovating their apartment after getting it from the Russian spinster hoarder who lived there for fifty years and never threw anything away, and it's now getting pretty nice. They have a rooftop terrace that looks over the sea, for when they don't feel like going down to the beach (though they like that too). They like the fact that Brighton Beach feels like Russia but that they can sit on the beach with Fedyor in Ivan's lap and watch the sun go down, they can openly hold hands on the street, and go to NYC Pride. (Yes, Fedyor dragged Ivan there; yes, Ivan was Grumpy Cat the whole time but secretly loved it; yes, he insisted all photos be destroyed.)

#anonymous #ask #pel asks #heartrender husbands #ivan x fedyor

[shehriyana]

Moodboard: On Photography, Nation and Violence

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).

- Roland Barthes, Reflections on Photography

Caché (2005), Dir: Michael Haneke

Let us wash our faces in the wind and forget the strict shapes of affection.

Let the pregnant woman hold something of clay in her hand.

She believes in god, yes, but also in the mothers

of her country who take off their shoes

and walk. Their footsteps erase our syntax.

Let her man kneel on the roof, clearing his throat

(for the secret of patience is his wife’s patience).

He who loves roofs, tonight and tonight, making love to her and to her forgetting,

let them borrow the light from the blind.

There will be evidence, there will be evidence.

While helicopters bomb the streets, whatever they will open, will open.

What is silence? Something of the sky in us.

- Ilya Kaminsky, ‘Such is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air’, Deaf Republic

Death by Hanging (1968), dir. Nagisa Ōshima

I wanted to write an epic about suffering,

but when I found a tendril

of her hair among the ruins

of her mud house,

I found my epic there.

- Dunya Mikhail, from ‘Tablets IV’ (trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid)

#jacques derrida #roland barthes #moodboard #violence #nationwide #cinema photography #best cinematography #cinephile #cinepanettone #french cinema #cinemetography #postcolonial literature #literature quotes

[soracities]

Hello there <3 ive always admired your blog and i love it dearly. Can i possibly know who your fav authors are? <3

poetry: kim addonizio, yannis ristsos, ilya kaminsky, paul celan, vasko popa, saadi youssef, maram al masri, czeslaw milosz, john keats, mahmoud darwish, audre lorde, mary oliver, sujata bhatt, rainer maria rilke, paul eluard, octavio paz, dunya mikhail, wislawa szymborska

fiction: john berger, a.s. byatt, carmen maria machado, virgilio pinera, angela carter, stig dagerman, virginia woolf, andres neuman, enrique vila-matas, milan kundera, ali smith, yoko ogawa, ruth ozeki, mihail sebastian, fyodor dostoevsky, clarice lispector, manuel rivas, arundhati roy, gabriel garcia marquez

non-fiction(ish): george orwell, zadie smith, svetlana alexievich, john berger, alejandro zambra, albert camus, simone weil, martin buber, maurice merleau-ponty, rebecca solnit, siri hustvedt x

#i've forgotten so many probably but these are the ones i come back to #ask #anonymous

[laurent-ofvere]

Maya!!!!! Poetry recs: Dancing in Odessa, Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky // Averno, Faithful and virtuous night by Louise Glück // Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong // Crush by Richard Siken // The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail — I have tons more but these I’ve read most recently breaking into the poetry world and they’re mind-blowing. Each author has their own distinct style in writing and give off different auras and themes in their writing ♥️

will do, thank you my love!! 🤍

#asks

[incorrectwarinthepocket]

Garcia: I’m going to get soup.

Steiner: Be careful to not burn yourself, it’s hot

Garcia: *leaves rooms*

Garcia: Pfft, I’m not going to burn myself.

*30 seconds later*

Garcia: FUCK

Mikhail: He burned himself.

#0080 #gundam 0080 #gundam 0080: war in the pocket #war in the pocket #mobile suit gundam #gundam #garcia #steiner #mikhail #gabriel ramirez garcia #steiner hardy #mikhail kaminsky #garcia (gundam) #steiner (gundam) #mikhail (gundam) #cyclops team #team cyclops #cyclops #zeon #principality of zeon #incorrect quotes #incorrect gundam quotes

[bobbyinthegarden]

Bobby’s 2033 Reading Challenge - Six Months Update

Here is my original post outlining this challenge

And here is my three month update

So far, I’ve read 12/25 books, so I’m making good progress and am on track. I still need to do write-ups for a few of the books, but I shall get to them soon.

The books I have read so far are as follows (in no particular order):

Poetry: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (Full Review Here)

Essays: Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Full Review Here)

Non-Fiction: First They Killed My Father by  Loung Ung  (Full Review Here)

Fantasy: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin (Full Review Here)

Vampires: The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (Full Review Here)

Re-imagined Classic: Alec by William di Canzio (Full Review Here)

Mystery: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (Full Review Here)  

Children’s Lit: The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (Full Review Here)

Audiobook: The X Files: Cold Cases by Joe Harris, Chris Carter and Dirk Maggs (Full Review Here)

Superheroes: Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins (Review Incoming)

Popular Classic Novel: Monkey (Journey to the West) by Wu Cheng'en, abridged translation by Arthur Waley (Review Incoming)

Humour / Satire: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Review Incoming)

In addition to the books I’ve listed, my bingo card also has a few titles which are greyed out, these are books that I’m in the process of reading but haven’t finished yet, those books are:

Hero’s Quest: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. For some reason I always have to make this harder for myself, because I decided that wanted to read the whole series instead of just one of them, since technically, The Lord of the Rings, is supposed to be read as one book, despite coming in three volumes. I’ve finished The Hobbit and have started The Fellowship of the Ring, making my way through it slowly.

Rerreading a Favourite: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. I love this book a lot, and so I’m just taking my time with it, reading it very slowly, while reading other things in-between. Currently on chapter 24 of 32, so in the last third or so.

Popular Modern Novel: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Similar to The Master and Margarita in that I’m reading it pretty slowly, while simultaneously reading other books, I’m about half way through.        

More generally, I’ve read 33 books so far this year, some of which I’ve reading enjoyed, some I do not recommend at all, but I won’t go into too much detail about that, otherwise this post would be unnecessarily long.

#bookblr #Bobby speaks #bobby's 2023 reading challenge

[luthienne]

Hello , do you know any books/poems with anti war themes? (your blog is gorgeous by the way)

Thank you ♥♥♥ 

Some of these, particularly some of the poetry collections, I mention not bc I believe that the writer was expressly trying to publish anti-war sentiment, but bc they were living through war and you can see it in their writing—the horror + devastation that they experienced as a result of war/oppression/violence. Others such as Levertov, Rukeyser, Nye, etc. were (and are) absolutely and self-professedly anti-war. In either case, here a few suggestions that came to mind:

Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine:

“War’s never a winning thing. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it.”

Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless:

“She wanted an end to war. An end to cold and blackness and half the road gone silver with death.”

“A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings:

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”

“The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.”

Ilya Kaminsky, We Lived Happily During the War:

“And when they bombed other people’s houses, we / protested / but not enough, we opposed them but not / enough.”

Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters:

“Then this war, the worst bitterness of all (…). I have been shut up and cut off and violently refusing and unable to see or think; the rage over the past making it impossible to function in the present. It would be better to have an attack of amnesia and forget. Because there is only now; and no matter how this war came about, no matter how it is run, it belongs to us. ‘Because I am involved in mankind.’ And one must remain involved in all mankind, even uselessly, and even if one is intellectually conditioned to doubt and despair. Otherwise one might as well be dead.”

Mary Oliver, Red Bird: Poems:

“We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity.”

Anna Akhmatova, Complete Poems

Marina Tsvetaeva, Selected Poems

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems

Ilya Kaminsky, Dancing in Odessa

Carolyn Forché, Against Forgetting

Alice Notley, Certain Magical Acts

Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

Denise Levertov, To Stay Alive

Dunya Mikhail, The Iraqi Nights

Muriel Rukeyser, The Collected Poems

June Jordan, “A Song for Soweto”

Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

Naomi Shihab Nye, Words Under the Words

Tarfia Faizullah, Seam

Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem (texts)

Etty HIllesum, An Interrupted Life

Poems of Protest, Resistance, & Empowerment 

Wisława Szymborska, Map: Collected and Last Poems

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