Charles Bukowski, “The Poet,” From Slouching Toward Nirvana

Death and the Maiden.

Marianne (Preindlsberger) Stokes.

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Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955

[Text ID: I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.]

Explodingly Yours, Chen Chen

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Frank Papé illustration for Thaïs, Anatole France, 1890

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photo: David Castenson

from a reprint of the 1976 picture book Takeru by Masakane Yonekura

“When you left you took almost everything. I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be.”

— Charles Bukowski

Kokoshnik is a traditional Russian headdress worn by women and girls to accompany the sarafan, primarily worn in the northern regions of Russia in the 16th to 19th centuries.

Кокошник -  (от слав. «кокош», обозначавшего курицу и петуха,старинный русский головной убор в виде гребня (опахала, полумесяца или округлого щита) вокруг головы, символ русского традиционного костюма.