#orpheus & eurydice: a lyric sequence
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Gregory Orr, from ‘Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence’
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When Eurydice saw him
huddled in a thick cloak,
she should have known
he was alive,
the way he shivered
beneath its useless folds.
But what she saw
was the usual: a stranger
confused in a new world.
And when she touched him
on the shoulder,
it was nothing
personal, a kindness
he misunderstood.
To guide someone
through the halls of hell
is not the same as love.
Gregory Orr, Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence (Copper Canyon Press, 2001)
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#Gregory Orr#Orpheus & Eurydice#A Lyric Sequence#It's winter#Orpheus#Eurydice#words#autumn#winter#twig#shrub#sparrow
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Could you maybe do something regarding being in a relationship but feeling like you can’t breathe? Like you’re being suffocated by it?
gregory orr orpheus & eurydice: a lyric sequence (via @derangedrhythms) \\ liana finck \\ fariha róisín who is wellness for?: an examination of wellness culture and who it leaves behind (via @feral-ballad) \\ victoria hannan kokomo \\ daniel segrove \\ james baldwin giovanni's room \\ richard siken crush: "litany in which certain things are crossed out"
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#on love#asks#on relationships#anonymous#gregory orr#mine#my webweaving#webweaving#web weaving#webweave#web weave#web#webs#ww#paralle#parallels#parallelism#compilation#compilations#intertext#intertextuality#comparative#comparatives#orpheus & eurydice: a lyric sequence#liana finck#fariha róisín#who is wellness for?: an examination of wellness culture and who it leaves behind#victoria hannan#kokomo#daniel segrove
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felix & locus; the object that keeps me alive is the one that will kill me
mitski, 'a pearl' // red vs blue 12x06 // gregory orr, orpheus & eurydice: a lyric sequence // red vs blue 13x16 // heather havrilesky, dear polly, 'he told me i was nothing!' // red vs blue 13x17 // the crane wives, 'tongues and teeth' // hera lindsay bird, 'mirror traps' // the mountain goats, 'no children' // air traffic controller, 'this is love'
#rvb#red vs blue#chorus trilogy#rvb felix#rvb locus#lolix#web weaving#samuel ortez#isaac gates#web weave#my stuff#poetry#felix & locus#hand in unlovable hand#codependency#webweaving#the last quote not a picture is from the blind assassin by margaret atwood
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do you have any poetry/anthology book recommendations? 🤍
- Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire
- Ariel by Sylvia Plath
- Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück
- Averno by Louise Glück
- Certain Magical Acts by Alice Notely
- The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon
- Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975 by Margaret Atwood
- Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
- The Moon Is Always Female: Poems by Marge Piercy
- Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik
- Cherry Blossom Epiphany: the poetry and philosophy of a flowering tree by Robin D. Gill
- I Always Carry My Bones by Felicia Zamora
- Howling at the Moon by Darshana Suresh
- The Black Unicorn: Poems by Audre Lorde
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
- Haruko: Love Poems by June Jordan
- The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
- Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
- Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence by Gregory Orr
- Crush by Richard Siken
- Rose by Li-Young Lee
- A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor: Selected Poems by Maram al-Massri
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To guide someone
through the halls of hell
is not the same as love.
Gregory Orr, Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence
@ombre-ame
Feb 3/24
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Opened this Orpheus and Eurydice lyric sequence thingy up again and am feeling positively unwell
No particular reason
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Gregory Orr, His Lament. Orpheus & Eurydice: a Lyric Sequence
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#16
1. New Person, Same Old Mistakes - Tame Impala // 2. 2022 Azerbaijan GP - Clive Rose // 3. Azerbaijan GP: Charles Leclerc 'hurt' after Ferrari engine failure as Mattia Binotto urges patience - Sky Sports // 4. Supercut - Lorde // 5 + 6. 2021 Monaco GP - Mario Renzi, The Maiden's Lament - Horace Vernet // 7. Angels in America - Tony Kushner // 8. Organs - Of Monsters and Men // 9. H of H Playbook - Anne Carson // 10. 2022 Azerbaijan GP - James Gasperotti // 11. Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence - Gregory Orr // 12. 2022 Spanish GP - Manu Fernandez // 13. ‘We cannot afford for this to happen’ – Leclerc reflects on losing shot at Spanish GP win after power unit issue - Formula1.com // 14 + 15. 2021 Monaco GP - Clive Rose, Solitaire - Marina and The Diamonds
#charles leclerc#cl16#pc#rs#ww#many many thanks to k thepavementsings 🫶🏼#a measly little contribution to the wonderful sad charles poetry edits industry
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Bestie you seems to have great taste and i need to know what’s your favorite poetry books
aww thank you! i have pretty standard taste in poetry books, i dig a lot of the usual suspects, and i can't really list them all, but i CAN recommend two poetry books i read recently and really loved:
gregory orr, orpheus & eurydice: a lyric sequence ("everything had lost its voice and listened now inside,/ listened to Orpheus")
frederick seidel, evening man - the poem "boys" from this collection will always twist a knife in me, especially that last line "thank god for your daddy, boy"
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HADES
It hurt me to hear my subjects---
nothing but ghosts, nothing
but gray husks---groaning aloud.
His songs that blended anguish
and desire made their brows furrow,
their placid faces lose all repose.
In my dark realm, music’s painful
as first light to sleeping eyes:
white line above black trees,
dawn’s chalk scraped across the board.
Gregory Orr, Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence (Copper Canyon Press, 2001)
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My 2023 in books. Part IV
October
Big Swiss - Jen Beagin ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5
It is a witty, funny, very clever novel. It gives us the troop of messed-up female protagonists and I think it is very important to be able to empathize and love this type of protagonists. It is a book that you have to pick up and read at specific moments in life.
“It takes an enormous amount of energy—and courage—to free yourself, to follow the path of transformation without abandoning yourself, without fleeing from your pain and all the loss you’ve experienced.”
A visit from the goon squad- Jennifer Egan ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
I liked. It has a strange structure. It's not exactly a novel, it's several stories intertwined with each other. You live, you get old and you die. It breaks your heart a little but at the same time it's beautiful. If you like music you will also enjoy it.
“There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”
The Candy House - Jennifer Egan ⭐⭐⭐⭐4/5
It's a difficult book to describe, it's good. They are intertwined stories. It's about technology, very black mirror. It serves as a sequel to “A visit from the goon squad” but can be read on its own. What I like about Egan is that she takes the time to give each of his characters independence. This book shows that as humans we have the need to connect with each other and I think that is beautiful.
“Who could resist the chance to revisit our memories, the majority of which we’d forgotten so completely that they seemed to belong to someone else?”
Bakkhai - Translation Anne Carson - Euripides - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
I'm going to say it again... Anne Carson was born to translate Euripides. I read in a review “Anne Carson and Euripides where born for eachother” I love it. The Bacchae is a beautiful tragedy, even subversive I would say.
“Beginnings are special
because most of them are fake”
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories -Howard Phillips Lovecraft ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5
It's a reread, spooky october. Love it. I don't have much to say about it, I read it little by little before going to sleep every day to get in the mood. I would like to say that it was more transcendental for my life.
Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence - Gregory Orr ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
A beautiful collection of poems. It destroyed my soul. It is the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. I know the story by heart, even so every word hurt me. I loved it. I don't really read poetry, but this was a nice surprise.
“To guide someone
through the halls of hell
is not the same as love”
Electra- Other Version Translation by Anne Carson - Sophocles ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
Lines above I already declared my love for Anne Carson. I will declare my love for Electra by Sophocles. It is a wonderful tragedy. It shows that when injustice persists, when the laws do not work, there, within one, the most human thing that exists is born: resentment.
“As for me-
what harm can do it do
to die in words?”
“I live in a place of tears”
November
We Paint - Chloe Ashby ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
So sad. Written in a very beautiful way, another book about grief. But this time it is the grief of having lost a best friend. Somehow it brought back memories of the past. Heartbreaking.
“Better to be strangers for life, she must have thought, than to pick each other apart, one long, slow day at a time.”
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous- Ocean Vuong ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
Another of my favorite books I read this year. Damn Vuong writes with immeasurable talent. Gentle but strong. At times raw but at others soft. With such detail that each word is well calculated. I shed tears all the time. It is a perfect book.
“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
“I'm sorry I keep saying How are you? when I really mean Are you happy?”
Lanny - Max Porter ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
A fucking weird story. But I liked it. Max Porter has that power to leave me surprised every time. It was a quick read, I enjoyed it. It's like a fable. It reminded me of Latin American magical realism.
“False things, endings. Sustenance for fools and never what they claim to be.”
All the light we cannot see - Anthony Doerr ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5
When I read it I gave it 4 stars, in retrospect I give it 3. I did enjoy it a lot. I think it does a lot, it says a lot and it's a nice story, very sad tho. But I was left with a strange feeling, as if a piece was missing. It has very descriptive and beautiful prose.
“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
When all is said - Anne Griffin⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
Another sad but intricate book. Precious. It is narrated by a dying man who decides to talk to five important people in his life. Full of regrets and reproaches, the book presents a nostalgic story. I cried. I felt it very close to my heart.
“I’m here to remember – all that I have been and all that I will never be again.”
A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
Is it really any surprise that this book gets a 5/5? It's Suzanne Collins, it's THG. I think Collins knows how to write about his characters very well and knows how to write what is precise. That's why there are 4 books and no more. This book is exactly what it should be, the villain origin story.
“You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does.”
White nights- Fyodor Dostoevsky⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
Did i had to do this to myself? No. But I did it. Depressant. It's so…heavy. White Nights is a short story, quick to read but damn it leaves you paralyzed.
“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
December
A Pale View Of The Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
Beautiful story by Ishiguro. Again, Ishiguro knows how to write stories that break your heart. It is the story of a mother and her youngest daughter who talk about the suicide of their eldest daughter. A beautiful text. Worthy of shedding tears.
“As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things”
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love- Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver, terrible human being. There is no review about it for that reason. But good stories.
Cathedral-Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver, terrible human being. There is no review about it for that reason. But good stories.
The Burning God- R.F. Kuang ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5
The end. It destroyed me, there are no words. I closed the year with this book. It's a strange mix of relief and sadness. It is the devastation left by the acts of war but also the self-realization of what one has done. How are actions justified? It was a great closure to the saga.
“Take what you want. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you.”
“It doesn’t go away. It never will. But when it hurts, lean into it. It’s so much harder to stay alive. That doesn’t mean you don’t deserve to live. It means you’re brave.”
#books#2023#me#yo#reads#R.F. Kuang#girl#Kazuo Ishiguro#Fyodor Dostoevsky#Suzanne Collins#Anne Griffin#Max Porter#Ocean Vuong#Chloe Ashby#Jennifer Eagan
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roswell new mexico 1x02 // fallen angel by alexandre cabanel// orpheus & eurydice: a lyric sequence by gregory orr // roswell new mexico 4x10
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X-Men: First Class (2011) dir. Matthew Vaughn // Gregory Orr, from ‘Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence’
#I need to webweave with the worst quality screenshots you’ve ever seen btw#ok going to blick now I think I’ve temporarily exorcized myself kiss kiss#all my guys <3#no real tags lmao this is for me myself and my mutuals
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itachi & sasuke; love is stored in the butcher knife
traci brimhall, rookery // dazai osamu, the setting sun // gregory orr, orpheus and eurydice: a lyric sequence // david cronenburg, consumed // dante emile, after abel // the crane waves, never love an anchor // margaret atwood, speeches for dr. frankenstein
#itachi & sasuke#uchiha itachi#uchiha sasuke#web weave#web weaving#brothers#love in blood#thicker than water#naruto#my stuff#sasuke#itachi#oh i was cooking this for a while#itachi uchiha#sasuke uchiha
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