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Isla McKetta
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All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood
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Clear Out the Static in Your Attic
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Soul's Road: A Fiction Collection
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Polska, 1994
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What Doesn't Kill Her: Women's Stories of Resilience
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Pitkin Review, Spring 2010
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Wisława Szymborska’s The Acrobat and the Strength of Simplicity
I have a thing for Wisława Szymborska. There’s something about her clarity and the way she stands to the side of other poets, chalking a space on the sidewalk that’s just enough for her where she can be herself. So when I was offered the chance to read an advance copy of The Acrobat: Essential Poems, translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak, I leapt at it.
While most of the poems in th
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| I'd heard about this book for ages but never read it. Now I'm glad I did. I may never actually get through Proust, but I appreciated the selections and analysis presented in this book and it enriched my conversations all week long. ...more | |
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| A wonderful addition to my shelf. This book collects poems I mostly had, but places them together in new ways that made me see new things in the work. It's a great read for anyone looking for an introduction to Szymborska's work. Full review here. ...more | |
“And, thinking of this judgment I would no longer be able to change, I suddenly felt a kind of relief, as if peace could come to me only after the moment when there would be nothing to add and nothing to remove in that arbitrary ledger of misunderstandings, and the galaxies which were gradually reduced to the last tail of the last luminous ray, winding from the sphere of darkness, seemed to bring with them the only possible truth about myself, and I couldn’t wait until all of them, one after the other, had followed this path.”
― Cosmicomics
― Cosmicomics
“To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means… I went down into the void, to the most absolute bottom conceivable, and once there I saw that the extreme limit must have been much, much farther below, very remote, and I went on falling, to reach it.”
― Cosmicomics
― Cosmicomics
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
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“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley: Guitar Chord Songbook | Reggae Guitar Songbook with Lyrics, Chord Symbols and Guitar Chord Diagrams | Nearly 40 Classics for Acoustic or Electric Guitar | Strumming and Singing
― Bob Marley: Guitar Chord Songbook | Reggae Guitar Songbook with Lyrics, Chord Symbols and Guitar Chord Diagrams | Nearly 40 Classics for Acoustic or Electric Guitar | Strumming and Singing
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ”
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Icess wrote: "Can't wait for the book to come out! Congrats friend. Onward and upward!"Thanks, Icess! So excited!!!
Can't wait for the book to come out! Congrats friend. Onward and upward!
Helen wrote: "When will you read all the books on your list? Some how I know you will eventually - you are amazing there girl. I'm such a slow reader - it takes me long hours to finish books. My list is overw..."You're a doll, Helen! I am a very fast reader (sometimes, on a great day, I can read three shortish books), but I never remember ANYTHING. I envy slow readers who absorb and enjoy. My process is more of a driving obsession. Some books, like those on my physical to read shelf, will eventually be dispensed with. Others will serve as reminders of things I meant to think about. And the rest will haunt me until I read them and check them off the list.
When will you read all the books on your list? Some how I know you will eventually - you are amazing there girl. I'm such a slow reader - it takes me long hours to finish books. My list is overwhelming for me. You rock girl.