Chelsea Dingman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“It has come to seem there is no perfect ending. Indeed, there are infinite endings. Or perhaps, once one begins, there are only endings.” —Louise Glück, from “Faithful and Virtuous Night”

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“when the world treats you well, you sometimes come to believe you are deserving of it.” —Sandra Lim, from THE CURIOUS THING #TheSealeyChallenge https://t.co/ZIYHiKBNZg

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“Here flowers and flesh don’t wither. Here you will never leave me. Here poetry will save the world.” Revisiting QUEEN OF A RAINY COUNTRY by Linda Pastan today. https://t.co/pH50DTsLfK

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“how pure your love felt before it severed me clean from this world, Amen.” —Sara Eliza Johnson, from VAPOR https://t.co/nGHkTFVHvR

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When the note on a poem is a poem itself. From Tishani Doshi’s A GOD AT THE DOOR. https://t.co/0b5WPOsnrZ

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Agha Shahid Ali, from ROOMS ARE NEVER FINISHED. https://t.co/fLaUBuMrPv

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@monpereloves @wwnorton The Selected Works of Audre Lorde. More specifically, the essay “A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer.”

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—Saeed Jones, from ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (& the year) https://t.co/uNYWW27Yeg

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“never again are we the ones we love” —Jorie Graham ✨ https://t.co/eWH986akok

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“The inquiring quality of this collection comes from its exploration of different ways of looking at the speaker’s loss” Thank you to @heeeyberta for this lovely, thoughtful review of THROUGH A SMALL GHOST (@UGAPress ), & to Kristina Marie Darling for including it. https://t.co/EJ9kcurBGn