Lidia Yuknavitch, from Letter to My Rage: An Evolution
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Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess / Salman Rushdie, East, West / Sleeping at Last - Heirloom // Lidia Yuknavitch, Letter to My Rage: An Evolution / Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir / Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Louise Bourgeois, He Disappeared into Complete Silence / Yiyun Li, “What Gardening Offered After a Son’s Death” / Heidi Priebe, “As Long As There Is Love, There Will Be Grief” / Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted”
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mom, am i still young? can i dream for a few months more?
unknown / Maia Baia / Ethel Cain Family Tree / Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest / @/honeytuesday (on tumblr) / Lorde Writer in the Dark / Lidia Yuknavitch Letter to My Rage: An Evolution
i. unknown
[ "My mother is where it begins. / She and I are at war. / Our relation is hatred." ]
ii. Maia Baia
[ "Mother / Eat me and give birth to me again // This time around I'll make you proud" ]
iii. Ethel Cain, Family Tree
[ "I'm just a child but I'm not above violence / My mama raised me better than that" ]
iv. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
[ "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, that is his." ]
v. @/honeytuesday
[ "mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each otehr: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be." ]
vi. Lorde, Writer in the Dark
[ "I am my mother's child, I'll love you 'til my breathing stops / I'll love you 'til you call the cops on me" ]
vii. Lidia Yuknavitch, Letter to My Rage: An Evolution
[ "Or was my rage my mother's? Or her mother's? Or hers? An inherited creature?" ]
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electra, sophocles (trans. anne carson) // enough, suzanne buffman // letter to my rage: an evolution, lidia yuknavitch // the ghost is dead, long live the ghost, mara avoth // the importance of being earnest, oscar wilde // i didn’t always salivate over skeletons, blythe baird // persephone the wanderer (ii), louise glück // sharp objects, gillian flynn // the carnivorous lamb, agustín gómez-arcos (trans. william rodarmor) // how to wear your mother’s lipstick, warsan shire.
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I. The Reluctant Bride - Auguste Toulmouche
II. Letter to my Rage: An Evolution - Lidia Yuknavitch
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because i am my mother's son. / cassian andor & maarva andor.
Paul Tran, Taint / my mother would be a falconress - bending the bow (1968, robert duncan) / Letter to My Rage: An Evolution, by Lidia Yuknavitch / Aria Aber, Can You Describe Your Years in Prison? / Victoria Chang, from Obit / Eugenia Leigh, from “The Morning I Abandoned My Father, Angels,” Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows / Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein / Andor, Disney+
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HOTD as generationa trauma
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Part 1
1) Untitled, Jasmin R.
2) On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
3) Letter To My Rage: An Evolution - Lidia Yuknavitch
4) Rupi Kaur
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