Ocean Capewell
Goodreads Author
Born
in queens, ny
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
January 2008
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The Most Beautiful Rot
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2014
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high on burning photographs #3
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2008
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high on burning photographs #2/laminated hearts club
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2005
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Dionne's Story: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose for the Awareness of Violence Against Women
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2009
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"Couldn't put this one down. Newman writes poetry for real people and messy lives. This is what poetry is supposed to do... it's entertaining, it's relatable, it makes you feel alive and seen. I found myself eating cereal late at night while reading a"
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"I was born in Kherson, only 100 kilometers from the author. We are around the same age. Reading Strong Roots filled me with catharsis and allowed me to grieve a little deeper. It left me feeling as if I met a kindred spirit who guided me through a cu"
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“Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant
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“Poetry = Anger x Imagination”
― One Stick Song
― One Stick Song
“... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary”
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“I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.”
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“dykes were put here to tip the scales! we have a very important job and i wouldn't trade it for the world. give me a choice between breeding, accelerated aging, living with an orangutan, and maid duty for life...or, autonomy, black boots, multiple orgasms, cats instead of kids, people who say what they mean, and nothing stopping me from doing whatever i wanna do...and guess which one i pick?”
― The Complete Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist
― The Complete Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist
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