would you be willing to share books or poems with your favorite or even pretty writing / prose? thank you 😊
oh Absolutely
books!
A Moth to a Flame, Stig Dagerman
For Two Thousand Years, Mihail Sebastian
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The Waves, Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Sea, John Banville
The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney
Possession, A.S. Byatt
The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
The Book of Delights, Ross Gay
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
i am lewy, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
Seiobo There Below, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
The Carpenters Pencil, Manuel Rivas
Books Burn Badly, Manuel Rivas (full disclosure: the language in this book is HARD)
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, Saša Stanišić
From A to X: A Story in Letters, John Berger
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Mark Doty
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Paris, When It's Naked, Etel Adnan
A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Four Bare Legs in a Bed: Stories, Helen Simpson
South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind
The Things We Don't Do, Andrés Neuman
We Love Glenda So Much and Other Tales, Julio Cortázar
Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke
All We Saw, Anne Michaels (poetry)
Collected Poems of Vasko Popa, Vasko Popa (poetry)
Barefoot Souls, Maram al-Masri (poetry)
Without an Alphabet, Without a Face, Saadi Youssef (poetry)
poems!
"In Spite of Everything, the Stars" by Edward Hirsch
"I Can Tell You a Story" by Chuck Carlise
"The Roses of Saadi" by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
"The Stare" by Sujata Bhatt
"Stolen Moments" by Kim Addonizio
"Moonlight Sonata" by Yannis Ritsos
"No Title Required" by Wislawa Szymborska
"I Sleep A Lot" by Czeslaw Milosz
"Prayer for the Mutilated World" by sam sax
"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski
"I Cannot be Known" by Paul Eluard
"The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje
"Filling Spice Jars as Your Wife" by Kai Coggin
"Persimmons" by Li-Young Lee
"This Room and Everything in It" by Li-Young Lee
"When We With Sappho" by Kenneth Rexroth
"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong
"Not Even This" by Ocean Vuong
"Elegy of Fortinbras" by Zbigniew Herbert
"Wedding Poem" by Ross Gay
"Transformations of the Lover" by Adonis
"Cloves" by Saadi Youssef
"Punishment" by Seamus Heaney
"I've Dreamed of You So Much" by Robert Desnos
"Bleecker Street, Summer" by Derek Walcott
"Cave Dwellers" by A. Poulain Jr.
"De Humani Corporis Fabrica" by John Burnside
"The Great Fires" by Jack Gilbert
"The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" by Jack Gilbert
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