Ocean Capewell

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Ocean Capewell

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Born
in queens, ny
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Genre

Influences

Member Since
January 2008


ocean capewell used to get in trouble for answering the phone rudely when she was in the middle of writing a story. her parents’ friends were horrified at the snarled, "what??!!", not knowing what they were interrupting, not knowing how hard it is to get started again when you’re interrupted in the midst of inspiration. now she has a cell phone but misses being so completely wrapped up in writing that nothing came before it. she is trying to get back to that pure place: seven years old & writing in notebooks until her hand was sore, going so fast, trying to get it all down. genuinely not giving a fuck.

ocean capewell has been writing stories since 1987, poems since 1990 and zines since 1996. despite things getting thrown out, computers getti
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Average rating: 4.22 · 89 ratings · 18 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Most Beautiful Rot

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high on burning photographs #3

4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008
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Better Than The Best American Poetry by Dave Newman
"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" Read more of this review »
Strong Roots by Olia Hercules
"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" Read more of this review »
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this book was so much fun and I actually learned a lot!
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Dorothy Allison
“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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“... 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?”
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