2 April, 1937
Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
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89 Words
...words and words and words...
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955
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— fatima aamer bilal; coffin heart? bury me.
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Louise Glück, from Meadowlands; “Circe’s Power”
[Text ID: “I wanted only to hold you / I could hold you prisoner.”]
Louise Glück, from Meadowlands; “Telemachus’ Confession”
[Text ID: “hunger / How else address / that sense of being / insufficiently loved? Possibly / all children are / insufficiently loved;”]
Molly McCully Brown, from The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems; “While under”
[Text ID: “one bright morning / I’ll fly away”]
ms angelou i will never get over this
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Louise Glück, from Meadowlands; “The Dream”
[Text ID: “why couldn’t it go on longer? / Because it was a dream.”]
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— Sunrise, by Louise Glück
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Margaret Atwood, from a poem titled “Porcupine Meditation,” featured in Paper Boat: Selected Poems
Margaret Atwood, from a poem titled “Eurydice,” featured in Paper Boat: Selected Poems
Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems of Julia de Burgos; “Where You Begin,”
Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Robert Sherrod featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn
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Mary Oliver, from “Such Singing in the Wild Branches”
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Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation by Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong
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