kenn!’s Reviews > The Argonauts > Status Update

“Silverman’s aperture does not seem wide enough to include an enjoyment that doesn’t derive from filling a void, or love that is not merely balm for a wound. So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself.”

being handed an index card and being told to squeeze a Homeric epithet onto it

a kentucky of mothers

What exactly is lost to us when words are wasted? Can it be that words comprise one of the few economies left on earth in which plentitude—surfeit, even—comes at no cost?

Because I do not yet understand the relationship between writing and happiness, or writing and holding.

cruelty of the argo

how can [pregnancy,] something so profoundly strange and wild and transformative also symbolize or enact the ultimate conformity?

“my pregnancy—is that inherently heteronormative? or is the presumed opposition of queerness and procreation more a reactionary embrace of how things have shaken down for queers than the mark of some ontological truth?