Jack Spicer, “A Poem Without a Single Bird in It”
Tag: grief
Lightness of touch … Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Wawannaisa), 1991. Photograph: The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
“Untitled” (Last Letter). Photograph: The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Felix Gonzalez-Torres to Carl George, 1988
Dead visible Nusch invisible and harder
Paul Eluard
“I did not believe in the resurrection of the body but I still believed that given the right circumstances he would come back.” -_The Year of Magical Thinking_ by Joan Didion
Madness as a defense against terror.
Madness as a defense against grief.
Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (via vcandrewsbookclub)
Adam Tavel, Where His Lines Run
scraps of my poetry and images. for my friend Hunter Deely.
This afternoon I finished the first draft (of many) of my grief-book. By no means did I think that that grief would be contained in those poems, & so I wasn’t surprised when I finished this (kind of) sonnet & realized that it, too, was (sighing).
Little Bristling Soul 