Bianca Stone illustration from Anne Carson’s Antigonick
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Phaedra | Seneca: Six Tragedies | Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Emily Wilson
Jenny Holzer | Survival
Phaedra | Seneca: Six Tragedies | Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Emily Wilson
Lisa Robertson | Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip
Phaedra | Seneca: Six Tragedies | Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Emily Wilson
Io transformed into a heifer – Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound – 1930 Delphic Festival autochrome by Maynard Owen Williams
As is well known, the return of the beloved
does not correct
the loss of the beloved
Persephone the Wanderer – Louise Glück
(via ghostwithbones)
In the Iliad, there is no natural death —
everything comes about by intent
… All that violence
out of somebody’s error.
—Susan Stewart, “In the Western World,” in Red Rover (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 79.
anne carson
from autobiography of red
anne carson
[Ibykos fr. 286, Poetae Melici Graeci]
In spring, on the one hand,
the Kydonian apple trees,
being watered by streams of rivers
where the uncut garden of the maidens [is]
and vine blossoms
swelling
beneath shady vine branches
bloom.
On the other hand, for me
Eros lies quiet at no season.
Nay rather,
like a Thracian north wind
ablaze with lightning,
rushing from Aphrodite
accompanied by parching madnesses,
black,
unastonishable,
powerfully,
right up from the bottom of my feet
[it] shakes my whole breathing being.
From Anne Carson’s translation of Herakles, by Euripides. Published in Grief Lessons from @nyrbclassics
Little Bristling Soul 