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socks, cicadas, and other frustrations
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I was beautiful, once
I was beautiful,
once,
for a summer,
and I would stare at my reflection,
and think about the eyes
that tore through my clothes
and never looked at my face
and I learned to believe that my body was cruel
and my lips were cruel and I had no one to blame
but myself.
So when you asked me if
I feel beautiful,
holding my face in your hands,
I couldn’t look in your eyes
because I am cruel
so I closed my eyes and tried not to see
my dirty reflection
or remember the way hands make me hollow
so I just touched my cruel lips
between your blue eyes
and I didn’t answer.
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After scrolling through hundreds of pictures of my own face, which looks strange and foreign to me now, Mikaela and I have finally decided on the content for #otherfrustrationsbook. We'll have more exciting updates about fundraising and release dates very soon! www.otherfrustrationsbook.com
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Final photo! A lot of paint and only a little vandalism. Stay tuned for important things like outtakes and release dates! #otherfrustrationsbook #VSCOcam @mikaela_hamilton @annathom_
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A first look at @annathom_ 's genius work. #otherfrustrationsbook "I was taught to be a certain kind of person, a piece to fit in a place" You can find Expectations in Sobotka Literary Magazine next month (hopefully)!
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This poem will appear in Sobotka Literary Magazine along with “Expectations” soon!
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My best friend wrote this incredible piece. Watch, share, and help raise awareness for victims of sexual assault and celebrate the bravery of those of us who survive. The Sexual Assault Center of Nashville changed my life. If you have the means, please help them continue to save and change lives of others in the future.
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"I have a story to tell you which is the worst story to tell that ever once I heard. What thickens my tongue? and has me by the throat? I gasp accursed even for the thought of uttering the word." From John Berryman's "The Old Poor" which was the basis for my poem "Dear Mr. Berryman" #otherfrustrationsbook @mikaela_hamilton @annathom_
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really excited to share more of this project over the next few months.
www.otherfrustrationsbook.com
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"It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so." - from Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara. Photo for my poem "I was beautiful, once" #otherfrustrationsbook #portrait #livefolk #thatsdarling
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Pushing our luck this Friday 13 by smashing a mirror for #art because we are #brave and #bold. @mikaela_hamilton @annathom_ #otherfrustrationsbook
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www.otherfrustrationsbook.com
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sneak peek: questions from the artist
”I deposit them on slips of paper-
my useless skill-
hoping to save enough to be valuable
and when I throw my box into a pool
of dead water
I will drown with them”
from “Questions from the Artist regarding Illth”
by Moriah Claud
#illth#questions from the artist#mikaela hamilton#other frustrations book#poem#poetry#photography#john ruskin#beautiful#valuable#art
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about the book
Socks, Cicadas, and Other Frustrations is a collaborative project using poetry, photography, and illustrations to tell a story from three unique perspectives. The book attempts to offer an interpretation of the experience of art by offering visual representations of each poem. The poet is the subject of the photographs, but has no input on the contributions of the other artists.
It seems equally relevant to briefly describe what the book is about. As the poet and the subject of the photographs, this book is about standing naked in the middle of a freeway singing a song you thought was Adele in the wrong key. Broadly, Other Frustrations is about everything that scares me. The book describes growing up, learning to understand pain, and accepting who you are outside of who you thought you'd be. More specifically, Socks, Cicadas, and Other Frustrations is about three artists trying to capture an image of what it looks like to be human.
#poetry#other frustrations book#mikaela hamilton#moriah claud#anna thompson#photography#illustrations
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