Alina Stefanescu Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Alina Stefanescu is a poet and book reviewer. poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. romanian-alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.

Poems
Emily Dickinson
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
Paperback, 2022
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Joan of Arc: And Other Selections From Thomas De Quincy. I. Joan of Arc. Ii. the English Mail Coach (Abridged). Iii. Levana and Our
Thomas de Quincey
"No dignity is perfect which does not at some point ally itself with the mysterious." - Thomas de Quincey, "The English Mail Coach"
Paperback, 2023
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher’s book, capitalist realism, is excellent, but his posthumously published lectures on post-capitalist desire are a must.
Paperback, 2022
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Kafka: The Decisive Years
Reiner Stach
Reiner Stach on how Kafka treated Felice's letters: https://t.co/BjGCit95kI
Paperback, 2013
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Frank: Sonnets
Diane Seuss
RT @kjavadizadeh: Diane Seuss, from frank: sonnets. “I’ve lived with death from the beginning, at the edge / of its villages.” https://t.co…
Paperback, 2021
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Where the Stress Falls: Essays
Susan Sontag
Danilo Kis translated by Ralph Manheim in a book of essays edited by Susan Sontag. https://t.co/TCEHgBiS1v
Paperback, 2002
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Condition of Secrecy
Inger Christensen
When a great truth triumphs in the market place, you may be sure that a great lie has contributed to its victory. - Nietzsche In this condition of secrecy, the poet stands at the center of a universe that has no center. - Inger Christensen
Paperback, 2018
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Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes
Jazmina Barrera
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
Paperback, 2023
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The Fur Person
May Sarton
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
Paperback, 2014
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Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
"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.
Paperback, 2005
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