Alina Stefanescu Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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On this Emily Dickinson birthday, I’m thinking about @katiefar’s poetry chapbook and how the speaker has a long running Emily vs. Walt debate with the husband—and how these were some of my favorite love poems of 2021. https://t.co/VD8Nxg3uIJ

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"No dignity is perfect which does not at some point ally itself with the mysterious." - Thomas de Quincey, "The English Mail Coach"

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RT @robinschaer: Who wants a book review of Olga Tokarczuk's forthcoming novel "The Books of Jacob"? — or who at least can slip me a galley…

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Reiner Stach on how Kafka treated Felice's letters: https://t.co/BjGCit95kI

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Donald Barthelme referencing Beckett's "long sonata of the dead" (from "Not Knowing") https://t.co/kaWjtnyD5l

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Re-reading Ursula Le Guin’s THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS with the teen and feeling grateful for the way it lets us talk about androgyny and the physicality of reproductive burdens. And how LG was haunted by her decision not to use gender neutral pronouns in 1964.

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Danilo Kis translated by Ralph Manheim in a book of essays edited by Susan Sontag. https://t.co/TCEHgBiS1v

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Re-reading this long narrative poem by Nikkey Finney titled “Linea Nigra” today. Highly recommend—this is just a small part of it. https://t.co/U5CHpaaKsa

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We’re doing the usual summer family-read aloud and our book of the month is May Sarton’s THE FUR PERSON— about how a Gentleman Cat grows into a genuine Fur Person. It’s lovely, tender & meowy. I miss that old tabby, The World’s Most Vociferous Yowler, who also went by Sampson. https://t.co/YztY9LuVdN

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"Little by little the light changed," the Roman emperor, Hadrian, says in Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian," where the aging ruler marks the passage of time in its changed relation to light, or the prospective one reads into the world. Age as a relation to light.