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Holly’s 2024 Year in Books
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I knew this would be a thoughtful and practical guide to add to my collection of books on the practice of writing, and I expected I'd want to share it with my creative writing students. What I've discovered, so far, is a rich resource to support my p
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“... but poetry teaches us that, as with love and death, it is the devotion that lies within our power, now the object.”
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“The meaning of a poem, like the meaning of a life, must be intrinsic to the nature of the thing, arising from within it, as opposed to imposed from without.”
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“To be a poet, then, is no more or less than to be fully human and to translate and distill that experience into language so meticulously as to evoke and redeem something of life itself." from On the Edge of Motherhood and Poetics”
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Every sentence is interesting. Every observation is unique. All of these stories are original in form and content: no one else writes like Sejal Shah. I marvel at how this book was put together and, because I am a poet who teaches poets, I study its ...more |
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“Maybe all this longing will snag itself
on the reeds or dissolve quick
as the waves weaving this shore.”
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on the reeds or dissolve quick
as the waves weaving this shore.”
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“Heart weeps.
Head tries to help heart.
Head tells heart how it is, again:
You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday.
Heart feels better, then.
But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart.
Heart is so new to this.
I want them back, says heart.
Head is all heart has.
Help, head. Help heart.”
― Varieties of Disturbance
Head tries to help heart.
Head tells heart how it is, again:
You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday.
Heart feels better, then.
But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart.
Heart is so new to this.
I want them back, says heart.
Head is all heart has.
Help, head. Help heart.”
― Varieties of Disturbance
“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the antelopes stretching over the palings, beauty sprang instantly. To watch a leaf quivering in the rush of air was an exquisite joy. Up in the sky swallows swooping, swerving, flinging themselves in and out, round and round, yet always with perfect control as if elastics held them; and the flies rising and falling; and the sun spotting now this leaf, now that, in mockery, dazzling it with soft gold in pure good temper; and now again some chime (it might be a motor horn) tinkling divinely on the grass stalks—all of this, calm and reasonable as it was, made out of ordinary things as it was, was the truth now; beauty, that was the truth now. Beauty was everywhere.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“No one feels good at four in the morning.
If ants feel good at four in the morning
—three cheers for the ants.”
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If ants feel good at four in the morning
—three cheers for the ants.”
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