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How can you lose something that’s growing within you, like a tree?
Dear Karin, Crisis (tr. Amanda Doxtater, 2020. Original: Kris, 1934) is a book that resists being defined, a book that resists solidifying into a unified form of… Read more “How can you lose something that’s growing within you, like a tree?”
20 Books of Summer | 2020
Hello, folks! In the midst of Spring, we think of 20 Books of Summer! This is a reading event hosted by Cathy over at the 746 Books… Read more “20 Books of Summer | 2020”
Not everyone is true enough to hear the truth,
Dear Karin, Reading Kallocain (2019, tr. David McDuff. Original: 1940) feels very much like taking a small dose of Kallocain: it grows on us, building from the… Read more “Not everyone is true enough to hear the truth,”
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
Zora Neale Hurston - Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an African American writer. Born in Alabama, she moved with her family to Florida in 1894,… Read more "Zora Neale Hurston"
Charlotte Riddell - Charlotte Riddell (born Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan; also known as Mrs J. H. Riddell; 30 September 1832 – 24 September 1906) was an Irish writer. Born in… Read more "Charlotte Riddell"
Gamel Woolsey - Gamel Woolsey (née Elizabeth Gammell Woolsey, May 28, 1897 – January 18, 1968) was an American writer. She was the daughter of a cotton plantation owner and a Charleston… Read more "Gamel Woolsey"
Dorothy Bussy - Dorothy Bussy (née Dorothea Strachey, 24 July 1865 – 1 May 1960) was an English writer and translator. She attended the Marie Souvestre boarding school for girls at Les Ruches,… Read more "Dorothy Bussy"
Carmen Dolores (Emília Moncorvo Bandeira de Mello) - Carmen Dolores (March 11, 1852 – August 16, 1910) was the pen-name of Brazilian writer Emília Moncorvo Bandeira de Mello. She was born in Rio de Janeiro… Read more "Carmen Dolores (Emília Moncorvo Bandeira de Mello)"
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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.
