#sumita chakraborty

[llovelymoonn]

some of my favourite poems i've read this month:

emily jungmin yoon bell theory

sumita chakraborty dear, beloved

s.j. fowler violence on the internet

david bromwich separate dwelling

a.m. sullivan symbols for deceit

g.e. murray arts of a cold sun: "long story short"

john murillo upon reading that eric dolphy transcribed even the calls of certain species of birds,

tory dent the moon and the yew tree

alice fulton personally engraved

#words #poems #emily jungmin yoon #sumita chakraborty #s.j. fowler #david bromwich #a.m. sullivan #am sullivan #sj fowler #ge murray #g.e. murray #john murillo #sylvia plath #tory dent #the moon and the yew tree #alice fulton #poetry list

[violettesiren]

When does the moon turn full? When I tell it stories of love. When does the moon begin to wane? When I stop speaking of love. What do you look like in the dark? A horned, lit, and petrified tree on a shore. To whom do you turn when in pain?

Night Questions by Sumita Chakraborty

#Sumita Chakraborty

[solvaaya]

Dear, beloved by Sumita Chakraborty. Text ID under cut.

[Text ID: Lover, each time I kiss you I name after you a sickly feeling in my own body, as if each ailing is a previously undiscovered moon orbiting a planet that can only sustain the strangest of life-forms.]

#literature #poetry #poems #quotes #desi poetry #desi poets #indian poets #indian poetry #sumita chakraborty

[souppilgrim]

sumita chakraborty, from arrow

#sumita chakraborty #poetry #literature #south asian literature #existential poetry

[distort-opia]

Sumita Chakraborty, The B-Sides of the Golden Records, Track Five: “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” // Detective Comics (2016) #1000 -- The Batman's Design // Meghan O’Rourke, Sun in Days // Batman (2011) #48 -- Superheavy // Mary Oliver, from “Hum, Hum”, A Thousand Mornings // Batman (2016) #68 -- Knightmares // Hereditary (2018) // Detective Comics (2016) #999 -- Mythology // Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist // Detective Comics (2016) #1027 -- The Gift //Jihyun Yun, from "The Leaving Season," Some Are Always Hungry //

#collection of Bruce moments I need to expel from my head #batman #bruce wayne #bruce wayne meta #web weaving #my comic panels #long post

[selenival]

Photo: Eleni Vasilaki

"Dears. Beloveds. You’ve been asleep a long time, but we all return to the waking world someday. "

Sumita Chakraborty

https://youtu.be/rDQ25eyOamY

#self portrait

[vvienne]

To read/currently reading:

Books:

Priory of the Orange Tree

Station Eleven

Annihilation

Mo Du

JWQS

Comics:

Batgirl 2000

Green Lantern Corps 1990

Hellblazer

Poetry:

Finishing Sumita Chakraborty’s Arrow

My collection of translated Rilke

#open to recs if anyones got any

[oakfern]

6, 14, 15 for the book asks :]

6. what books have you read in the last month?

only one novel but a lot of poetry books!

Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren. it was fine. it was a romance novel, and i like romance novels. this one had a very abrupt ending.

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 – 1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated by Yvette Siegert. extremely highly very recommend. content warning for death and mental health issues - Pizarnik was extremely suicidal and it is obvious in pretty much every poem she writes.

Arrow by Sumita Chakraborty. also recommend.

Invocation to Daughters by Barbara Jane Reyes. also recommend. content warning for discussion of violent misogyny and assault. portions of the poems are in Tagalog and Spanish.

You Darling Thing by Monica Ferrell. meh.

Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón. considering how much praise this book has gotten, i expected it to be much better than it actually was. it's fine, i guess. there are definitely some very quotable lines. no poems stood out to me.

14. do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?

i underline in textbooks. i used to dog ear books but not much anymore. mostly i use sticky notes to mark up books.

15. recommend and review a book.

i realize i reviewed all the books above but. here's another review anyway

The Ghost Network by Catie Disabato. this book has mixed reviews but it's one of my favorites. i do think it appeals to like, a very specific subset of people tho. if you enjoy: trains/public transit, elaborate frame stories, geography, obscure theoretical constructs, and/or dadaism, this book is for you. i enjoy all of these things, but also elaborate frame stories are especially my shit. (please recommend me books with elaborate frame stories. the more frame stories the better.)

also there's queer characters i guess! the queerness of the characters really has nothing to do with the plot.

#e #ty!!

[lifeinpoetry]

I no longer love. // To prove this, I have cut off my hands.

— Sumita Chakraborty,  “O Spirit,” Arrow

#quote #Sumita Chakraborty #poetry #Arrow #out of my collection #O Spirit

[firstfullmoon]

Sumita Chakraborty, from “Night Questions”

[text ID: When does the moon turn full?

When I tell it stories of love.]

#w #poetry #sumita chakraborty #the earth was made for lovers

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of december

a.r. ammons collected poems: 1951-1971: "dunes"

jennifer robertson shrill shirts will always balloon

n. scott momaday in the presence of the sun: stories and poems, 1961-1991: "the delight song of tsoai-talee"

ted berrigan the collected poems of ted berrigan: "bean spasms"

natalie diaz when my brother was an aztec: "abecedarian requiring further examination of anglikan seraphym subjugation of a wild indian rezervation"

greg miller watch: "river"

joanna klink excerpts from a secret prophecy: "terrebonne bay"

dorothy dudley pine river bay

brenda shaughnessy our andromeda: "our andromeda"

frank lima incidents of travel in poetry: "orfeo"

lehua m. taitano one kind of hunger

no'u revilla kino

linda hogan when the body

paul verlaine one hundred and one poems by paul verlaine: a biligual edition: "moonlight" (tr. norman r. shapiro)

mahmoud darwish the butterfly's burden: "the cypress broke" (tr. fady joudah)

mahmoud darwish the butterfly's burden: "your night is of lilac"

amir rabiyah prayers for my 17th chromosome: "our dangerous sweetness"

sara nicholson the living method: "the end of television"

charles shields proposal for a exhibition

ginger murchison a scrap of linen, a bone: "river"

tsering wangmo dhompa virtual

anne carson the beauty of the husband: "v. here is my propaganda one one one one oneing on your forehead like droplets of luminous sin"

muriel rukeyser the collected poems of muriel rukeyser: "the book of the dead"

anne stevenson stone milk: "the enigma"

david tomas martinez love song

robert fitzgerald charles river nocturne

thomas mcgrath the movie at the end of the world: collected poems: "many in the darkness"

linda rodriguez heart's migration: "the amazon river dolphin"

donald revell the glens of cithaeron

sumita chakraborty dear, beloved

angela jackson and all these roads be luminous: "miz rosa rides the bus"

kofi

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[geryone]

Arrow, Sumita Chakraborty

#poem #poetry #quotes #quite #sumita chakraborty

[solvaaya]

Dear, beloved by Sumita Chakraborty. Text ID under cut.

[Text ID: You’ll have to leave me. Or else I’ll leave you, because my body, it invents definitions for the word sadness, like noun, the feathers on a bird’s back. You’ll do nothing for me. On my mountain, it’s midafternoon, and the wheeling birds are landing steadily, even though no stable ground is here to be found. When they sing, it is a song that I, who know no prayers, imagine to be gospel. A man comes up the mountainside and sings along with them as he walks in circles on the rock.]

#literature #poetry #poems #quotes #desi poetry #desi poets #indian poets #indian poetry #sumita chakraborty

[brokenheartedcubscout]

web-weaving: love and the moon

margaret atwood / adonis / frank o’hara  / slyvia plath / antonio machado / mahmoud darwish / sumita chakraborty / richard siken 

#ooooooo a girl is tired #like she is so so tired but she was determined to make this #web weaving #web-weaving #margaret atwood #adonis #frank o'hara #slyvia plath #antonio machado #mahmoud darwish #sumita chakraborty #war of the foxes #poetry #prose #literature #dark academia #parallels #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #light academia aesthetic #romantic academia #romantic academia aesthetic

[sleepingpoetry]

If it is the last thing I do, I’ll command you to be amazed. Seas rolling onto the shore, dried to salt. The dust of growing gorges. The eclipse. Fields of pines—no, full coasts—caught flame. Nebulae, dead, their starred knots unknotted, dispersed and flayed into the dark. Blurs of mackerel skies, horse-shaped clouds. The courses set into motion by each loss of life. The persistence of gravity.

– Sumita Chakraborty, If it is the last thing I do…

#poetry #poem #sumita chakraborty #arrow #2020 #nature #wonder #sky

[shores-of-esgalduin]

Image 004 by Sumita Chakraborty.

#poetry #poems #sumita chakraborty #haunted houses #horror #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #visual poetry #black and white #spilled thoughts #quotes #writing #female poets