How I did waste and exhaust my heart.
Anne Carson, Kinds of Water
Make much of me why don't you.
Matthea Harvery, Not So Much Miniature As Far Away
I believe in ending sentences with a preposition in order to give the ideas a way out.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
i) robert browning / eurydice to orpheus (1864) ii) w.a. mozart / “parto, parto” (la clemenza di tito, 1791) iii) jessica waldoff / recognition in mozart’s operas (2006) iv) c.w. gluck / orfeo ed euridice (1762) v) catherine maxwell / the female sublime from milton to swinburne: bearing blindness (2001) vi) gerald griffin / the collegians (1829) film stills from portrait de la jeune fille en feu (sciamma, 2019)
Tomorrow either I will murder you or you will rinse the knife in water
Garous Abdolmalekian, Flashback tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Despair recognizes its own ridiculousness
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
A bird pecks at the corroded corner of the sky
Garous Abdolmalekian, Long Poem of Loneliness tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
Sometimes, there seems to be a halfway point between where you've been and everywhere else, and we were there.
Ada Limón, Oh Please, Let It Be Lightning
An attempt to intensify the horror by containing it in symmetry.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book