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Even after her head was struck off she behaved so beautifully
Hi, folks! This is post 3 of Deal me In. For more about this project & my previous posts on it, go here: Reading Plans | Weeks 1 | 2 | 3… Read more “Even after her head was struck off she behaved so beautifully”
Mary de Morgan
Mary de Morgan (Mary Auguste De Morgan, 24 February 1850 – 18 May 1907) was an English writer. She was born to a family of intellectuals: her… Read more “Mary de Morgan”
But leave me the machine of blue colors
Four poems by Alfonsina Storni: one from the anthology Nine Latin American Poets, ed. and tr. Rachel Benson (1968); two from the collection Alfonsina Storni: Selected Poems,… Read more “But leave me the machine of blue colors”
Commonplace book
“It is best for us to continue in the belief that Eve actually ate an apple, and immediately ruined Adam in consequence! I like this belief, too, it speaks so well for the progressive power of women.” – 26 July 1857, ‘Early journalism’, in The Morgesons and Other Writings
The sadness of others one should leave alone. It is a small garden, a fragile delicate Arcadia, one should not disturb it. – I Am the Brother of XX
Menagerie of Authors
Mary de Morgan - Mary de Morgan (Mary Auguste De Morgan, 24 February 1850 – 18 May 1907) was an English writer. She was born to a family of intellectuals: her… Read more "Mary de Morgan"
Alfonsina Storni - Alfonsina Storni (29 May 1892 – 25 October 1938) was an Argentine author. She was born in Switzerland to an Italian-Swiss family. When she was four years… Read more "Alfonsina Storni"
George Egerton - George Egerton (pen name of Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright; 14 December 1859 – 12 August 1945) was an Australian-born Irish writer. She was born in Melbourne, Australia,… Read more "George Egerton"
Mririda N’Ait Atiq - Mririda N’Ait Atiq (c. 1900 – c. 1940) was a Moroccan Berber Shilha poet. Little is known about her life. Born in the village of Megdaz, in… Read more "Mririda N’Ait Atiq"
Carolina Nabuco - Carolina Nabuco (née Maria Carolina Nabuco de Araújo. February 9th, 1890 – August 18th, 1981) was a Brazilian author. Daughter of the statesman Joaquim Nabuco, Carolina was… Read more "Carolina Nabuco"
About
About this [blank] garden
“I am younger each year at the first snow.”
– Anne Sexton, in a letter to W. D. Snodgrass, in 1958.
A Self-portrait in Letters, (2004)
This is my blank space. A white page, as good as a garden covered in snow, not yet cultivated, but with some strong Spring hidden within; something simple, clean, yet to be stained; a seed with some flower all curled up inside, first waiting, then slowly unraveling.
