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woundgallery · 2 days

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Anne Carson

#anne carson #poetry #beasts #text

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imminent-danger-came · 1 day

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Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend.

Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood.

Theseus: Stain them, I don't care.

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jondrettegirls · 2 days

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hi i was wondering where u found translations of euripides’ plays by anne carson?? like if u have them as pdfs or anything!! :)

!!!! there’s this pdf of carson’s an oresteia, which includes “orestes” by euripides !! unfortunately i couldn’t find a pdf of grief lessons which is the other anne carson euripides’ stuff i’ve read :(( but posting this in case someone else has one!!

#EDIT: apparently grief lessons is available on archive.org !!!#oh also if anyone has a pdf of h of h playbook. i want that bcuz hercules is scrunkly to me #my own.#asks.#<-was that my asks tag.. who’s to say #anne carson #euripides #also yes euripides slaps esp his essay at the end of grief lessons but. highlight of an oresteia is sophokles’ elektra

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eternal--return · 21 hours

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CHORUS: Your sob has a name.

Anne Carson · “Pinplay: A Version of Euripides' Bacchae.” Float (2016)

#anne carson #pinplay: a version of euripides' bacchae #float #bookshelf #fav

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whetstonegirl · 3 months

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the way somebody comes back but only in a dream

1.)Hannah Lock, Not Quite Here / 2.)Wendell Berry, “A Meeting” / 3.)Euripides, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, tr. Anne Carson / 4.)Leila Chatti, “I Dreamed I Forgot” / 5.)Anna Akhmatova, Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems, tr. Lenore Mayhew & William Mcnaughton / 6.)John Berger, A Seventh Man / 7.)Euripides, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, tr. Anne Carson / 8.)Xie Lei, Blow / 9.)Frank Bidart, “Light” / 10.)Li Qingzhao, “Tune: Pertridge Sky,” tr. Jiaosheng Wang / 11.)The Dog Island. Ubisoft, 2007 / 12.)Elisa Gonzalez, “After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad” / 13.)Ōtomo No Yakamochi, Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese, tr. Kenneth Rexroth / 14.)@/solavey, indigo / 15.)Louise Glück, 12.6.71

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sleepytimegal777 · 2 months

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1. A Primer for the Small Weird Loves - Richard Siken / 2. The Crane Wife - CJ Hauser / 3. Automat - Edward Hopper / 4. Red Doc> - Anne Carson / 5. Melancholy - Edvard Munch / 6. The Village (2004) / 7. So We Must Meet Apart - Gabrielle Bates and Jennifer S. Cheng

#the terrible loneliness that comes with refusing to be vulnerable…..#parallels #web weave #web weaving #poetry #words #art #richard siken #cj hauser #edward hopper #anne carson #edvard munch #the village #gabrielle bates #jennifer s. cheng

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metamorphesque · 6 months

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not to me. not if it’s you.

― Anne Carson (Euripides), Dead Poets Society (Final Script), Extraordinary Attorney Woo (Ep. 10), Anne Carson (H of H Playbook)

#i couldn't help it #web weavings #parallels #anne carson #euripides #h of h playbook #quotes #literature #classic literature #dead poets society #extraordinary attorney woo #kdrama #romantic academia #not to me not if it's you #love #on purpose #i'm gonna love you on purpose

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crushing-on-nico-di-angelo · 2 months

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and I'm sorry I left, but it was for the best my little dove...

absolute solitude: selected poems, dulce maria loynaz (tr. james o'connor) // the glass essay, anne carson // litany in which certain things are crossed out, richard siken // @uglyfruit // yves olade // hunger, harry styles // a not admitting of the wound, emily dickinson // no surprises, radiohead // fourth of july, sufjan stevens

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showcasedisplaysofsanity · 1 year

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ON PURPOSE, I'M GOING TO LOVE YOU ON PURPOSE

Jenny Slate // Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue // Pleiades, Anne Carson // Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // @oriley42 and @earth167 (and a half) on Tumblr // Jodi Picoult from The Book Of Two Ways // The Night Vale, Episode 100, The Toast // Adam Melchor, I Choose You // Kierston White, The Chaos of Stars

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lelif · 7 months

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How do I look away now that I have seen you?

on being seen and known and understood

Rachel Mennies, from "April 18, 2017", The Naomi Letters//Rick Riordan, Mark of Athena//picture: Mihaly Zichy "romantic encounter", quote: Micah Nemerever "These Violent Delights", edit @promqueendyke // Micah Nemerever, "These Violent Delights"//Marie Howe, "The Affliction"//Anne Carson, "Red Doc>"//NA//Taylor Swift, "Daylight"//Elizabeth Gilbert, "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage"//Little Women (2019)

#How do I look away now that I have seen you?#to be loved is to be understood #web weave #on being seen #on being loved and understood #understanding #web weaving #quotes #spilled ink #poetry #taylor swift #little women #these violent delights #micah nemerever #anne carson #virginia woolf

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tenderfaery · 2 months

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Aeschylus, Agamemnon (trans. Anne Carson)

#so true of her #she’s just experiencing the agonies of girlhood #aeschylus #anne carson #agamenon

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woundgallery · 4 hours

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Anne Carson

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Kiki Smith, Untitled, 1987-90

#anne carson #poetry #text #god #kiki smith #fluids #brainsex paintings #art #contemporary art

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texaschainsawmascara · 5 months

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Andalusia - Lisa Marie Basile / Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn / Runs in the Family - Amanda Palmer / unknown / Hate To Feel - Alice In Chains / The Lion In Winter - James Goldman / Letter To My Rage: An Evolution - Lidia Yuknavitch / Rupi Kaur / The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera / Amanda Palmer / Easier Than Lying - Halsey / Playing God - Paramore / Nancy Lee / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong / Enough - Suzanne Buffam / Antigone (Sophocles / trans. Anne Carson) / The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch / Untitled, Jasmin R. / When Doves Cry - Prince / I AM ANGRY BECAUSE OF MY FATHER - Halsey / Courtney Love prays to Oregon - Clementine Von Radics / unknown

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jondrettegirls · 3 months

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[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

#my own.#sorry the formatting on this is weird theres a page break bleh #anne carson #euripides #quotes #herakles #theseus #herakles&theseus #i just thought ab this play again and god… like a little boat being towed along by a big boat……#quoteblr #wordblr #euripides was rlly into this huh. w/ orestes & pylades ‘not to me not if its you’ like. he was rlly into this specific dynamic

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eternal--return · 2 days

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she dies in April 2010 of alcohol and indescribable longing

Anne Carson · “Powerless Structures Fig. II (Sanne).” Float (2016)

#anne carson #powerless structures fig. ii (sanne)#float #bookshelf #poem

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whetstonegirl · 4 months

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hunger → (obsession) → anger

Anne Carson, Plainwater / Half-Light, Frank Bidart / Gut Feminism, Elizabeth A. Wilson / @wormbus-art / “The Aliens Seek to Understand Pain, ” Kristina Erny / “Everyone You've Loved,” Susannah Irene / Blood, Tin, Straw, Sharon Olds / Lisa Marie Basile, “I Put the Coffin Out to Sea” / We Inherit What the Fires Left, William Evans

#comp #mine #paralells #comparatives #anne carson #plainwater #half light #frank bidart #sharon olds #web weaving #half-light #william evans

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