I'll Eat You Up, I Love You So
A Primer For the Small Weird Loves, Richard Siken | The Embrace II, Ron Hicks | Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love,” The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (@theoptia) | the night belongs to lovers, Ilaria Ratti | Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems, Linda Hogan (@feral-ballad) | Intimacy, Angelica Alzona | Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across, Mary Lambert (@synbeam) | The Kiss, Edvard Munch | Summer Morn in New Hampshire, Claude McKay
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THE WORLD IS GONE, I MUST CARRY YOU
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Richard Siken, ‘You are Jeff’
bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Angelica Alzona, Creophagy
Mary Oliver, ‘West Wind’
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Jeffrey McDaniel, ‘Archipelago of Kisses’
Graham Dean, Couple
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
Paul Celan, ‘Vast, glowing vault’
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Angelica Alzona
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Angelica Alzona’s illustration of Charles Portis for Casey Cep’s piece on the new Library of America collection in this week’s New Yorker magazine.
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i wanna make you fall in love as hard as my poor parents teenage daughter / she'll be the best you ever had if you let her
Sylvia Plath from a letter to Ann Davdiow-Goodman written 1951; Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956 / Jeanette Winterson excerpt from Lighthousekeeping / Rosamund Hodge excerpt from Cruel Beauty / unknown / image: Angelica Alzona Intimacy (2012) words: The National Daughter of the Soho Riots (2005) / Tathève Simonyan A Prayer / @/FAUNTHEKiD (pinterest) / Victoria Chang Foghorn; Six poems / image: unknown words: Richard Siken excerpt from Crush / Hala Alyan I'm Not Speaking First
i. Sylvia Plath, letter to Ann Davdiow-Goodman
[ "I know I'll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia - and a great deal of love." ]
ii. Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
[ "This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in." ]
iii. Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty
[ "You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them ever loved you, because none of them ever knew you." ]
iv. unknown
[ "and you've cried once more because recognition feels like forgiveness, which is a burning furnace that can't stand on its own. love is a feast but you've learned to abstain. there is a sickness that follows the shame of giving with love only to be met with slaughter." ]
v. Angelica Alzona, Intimacy / The National, Daughter of the Soho Riots
[ Surrealist painting of a man and a woman kissing as their faces blend together. Red outlines of hands reach up around them. "BREAK MY ARMS / AROUND THE ONE I LOVE" ]
vi. Tatheve Simonyan, A Prayer
[ "Rage, that is love - rotten! / Rage, that is desire - rotten! / Rage! - like a prayer, unanswered, ricocheting from your ceiling and landing right onto your eyes, never quite reaching where it was meant to." ]
vii. FAUNTHEKiD
[ "being in close proximity to you / is being led to the slaughter / if that the lamb is aware is alive is accepting / if that the slaughter is love love love" ]
viii. Victoria Chang, Foghorn
[ "The great mystery / is whether I love you or / I just love mourning. / The absence of a laugh just / gone, and the air that fills it." ]
ix. unknown/Richard Siken, Crush
[ Silhouette of a boy looking downwards. Red streaks from the background spread outwards from the middle. "I'll be your / slaughterhouse, / your killing floor, / your morgue / and final resting" ]
x. Hala Alyan, I'm Not Speaking First
[ "Nothing's Freudian anymore. A cigar's a cigar. I want to love something / I want to love something without having to apologize for it. Please don't tell." ]
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The wolf and the lamb, the killer + the sound.
— aise & joon.
1. soul eom, kiss, hug and die // 2. ashley blanton, arteries // 3. theskeletonprior // 4. unknown // 5. ethel cain, strangers // 6. fatimah asghar, how’d your parents die again? // 7. angelica alzona, intimacy // 8. lauren collis, let me rest in peace // 9. unknown // 10. luna lu, anatomy of a hug // 11. ethel cain, dog days // 12. unknown // 13. kim jakobsson, i won't become // 14. ethel cain, strangers // 15. unknown // 16. ethel cain, strangers // 17. unknown
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love as consumption of the other
you are the apple, lady lamb / untitled, unknown / intimacy, angelica alzona / nocturne, i.s. jones / breezeblocks, alt-j / bloodsport, yves olade / the notebooks of malte laurids brigge, rainer maria rilke / girl with the heart, edvard munch / give me a god i can relate to, blythe baird / hansel and gretel, anne sexton.
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