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Probably the most important collections I've ever read. Every Australian should read this

The Red House: Grief not a wound to cauterise, or blood left to stain; but as love, eternal. It is not a brand, but a beacon

"An hour weaving plastic string into friendship charms beneath the gaze of an old, dead Furby on Yesi's nightstand, Mayra asked if there was anything else to do. [...] I used to spend the stretch of weekdays counting down hours until I could sit in that bedroom and watch Firby chirp nonsense from its round little beak. But in that moment, like Mayra, I found myself asking, is that all?"

Emily Wilson is an incredible translator oh my god

"[Convulsive writing] carries the past in the present and the present in the past, confuses the bodies of mother and daughter, overturns established roles, tranforms the poison of female suffering into a real poison that involves animals, confuses them with animals and kills them, [...] makes threatening or suffering or lethal or salvific trees, cicadas, a rough sea, haptins, dolls, beach worms."

"...and words have all these rules. How can anything so limited touch something as big as whatever the fuck a 'Higher Power' is? How can it get rid of the big ball of rot inside me? It feels like this giant sponge sucking away anything in the world that's supposed to feel good. What words can touch that?"

I can guarantee this will be a new banned book in the US

CACKLING. This is so perverse

Not to get ahead of myself but this is the best book I've read and probably will read all year

Beginning to grasp why this is so widely recommended - the prose, and the story!? I'm intrigued

Already sobbing after 1 chapter god fucking damn it 😭

This is terrible and Alina is still a coward, but STURMHOND. MY LOVE. He is Thomas Brodie-Sangster in my mind

24 pages in and I’m already disappointed

I cant believe this jackass Mr Strane gave Vanessa FUCKING LOLITA

i’m so salty why does this translation not even RHYME
I PAID SO MUCH FOR IT

vol 2!!
okay def the hobbit only. these poems i’ve never seen before though wow!!!! again, marvellous illustrations. i adore them

Vol. 1 was so ☹️☹️☹️
It was a little collection of some of the poems (and thus some of the songs from the movie) and riddles from the hobbit and lotr. I expected different poetry but alas!! So cool!! But but oh my gosh the illustration are by Tolkien himself, i adore them. Tattoo worthy mayhaps mayhaps

i cried over a poem about the amazon history of a former nail salon worker
it had no right to be so sad

I FUCKING LOVE OCEAN VUONG SO MUCH

marvellously weird :>