From “A Drama of the Self: Louise Bourgeois as Printmaker” by Deborah Wye
Tag: writing
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life — not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.
Eileen Myles, “Universal Cycle.” The Importance of Being Iceland. (via winesburgohio)
The poet’s gift is never for the poet’s self, but for another: ‘Hush, hush. All injury / is feeling.’
Allen Grossman, from “Poet’s Sampler: Joanna Klink,” Boston Review (1 April 2000)
Frank O’Hara
Blanchot, from “Literature and The Right to Death” (full text here)
Anne Carson, from “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent” by Anne Carson, A Public Space, Issue 7 / 2008 (full text here)
Susan Sontag from “The Aesthetics of Silence”
Rembrandt, Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar, 1659
Francis Bacon, Self Portrait, 1973.
Anne Carson, from Nox
Louise Gluck from Proofs & Theories
Anne Carson, from “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent” by Anne Carson, A Public Space, Issue 7 / 2008 (full text here)
Jorie Graham, “Introduction” to The Best American Poetry of 1990
Fanny Howe interviewed by Leonard Schwartz, transcribed by Angela Buck
Little Bristling Soul 