undergroundrockpress:

Thin Lizzy on stage at St. George’s Hall, Bradford on 24th November 1977.

alrauna:

Martin Podt (@martinpodt)

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Samuel Beckett, letter to Morris Sinclair (March 4th, 1934), The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol. I: 1929-1940 [ID’d]

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Michael Dickman, “‘It’s all so strange, writing poems’: A Conversation with Michael Dickman,” curated by Kristina Marie Darling, Tupelo Quarterly (2018) [ID in ALT]

sleep is the first house

1. (excerpt) Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
2. Ferdinand Hodler, “Night” (detail) // Pierre Jahan, Nu Plain-chant (1947)
3. (excerpt) Eileen Myles, “Universal Cycle”, The Importance of Being Iceland
4. Sara Stout, “Paris Bed” // Alex Venezia
5. (excerpt) Adrienne Rich, Twenty One Love Poems (“Poem XII”)
6. Mark English, “Couple” (1933) // Kenney Mencher, “A Married Couple”
7. (excerpt) Walt Whitman, “When I Heard at the Close of Day”
8. Łukasz Stokłosa, “Untitled” (2014) // Matt Lambert for Dazed
9. (excerpt) Jeanette Wintersion, “Disappearance I”, The World and Other Places

soracities:

“She was to be a shooting star; she flickered briefly in the void, she continued the inevitable trajectory of the meteor, downward.”

— Angela Carter, from “The Cabinet of Edgar Allen Poe”, Black Venus

soracities:

“Now sometimes in the evenings, I am lonely / with dread.”

— John Ashbery, from “Proximity”, Wakefulness: Poems

luthienne:

soracities:

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“Absolutely no one comes to save us but us.”

Ismatu Gwendolyn, “you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)”, from Threadings, on Substack [ID’d]

updated link

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Dunya Mikhail, from “The Iraqi Nights”, The Iraqi Nights (trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid) [ID’d]