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Helen Vendler (from an old review in The New York Review of Books of Ashbery's A Wave), responding to the complaint that poems that seem to be "about poetry" are not "about life." nybooks.com/articles/1984/…

Mary Oliver today Be ignited, or be gone 🔥

I wonder if Denis Johnson’s ‘Man Walking to Work’ isn’t my all-time favourite poem

Some of my favorite digital archives Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view…… Walter Benjamin Digital: walter-benjamin.online Hannah Arendt's Papers: memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendtht…… NYPL Digital Collections: digitalcollections.nypl.org

It's the world as a burst intestine; the always of the slow alphabet of rain; the rhyme of 'memory' and 'emery' after the trickling from 'air' to 'hair'; and the interior of those final three lines, the sparking, the incredible harm.

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real. —James Baldwin [Happy 100th Birthday!]

So much about the immigration and asylum system is just completely unknown to people day to day. Some examples:

I haven’t done a thread in a while & I wanted to do one just to recap what Black & Asian people as well as immigrants have had to endure over the last week in the UK. Bookmark it 🧵

aimé césaire. this is really the whole thing isnt it. like if you can internalize this the rest will follow