Devin Gael Kelly Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Devin Gael Kelly

For my newsletter today, I wrote about a beautiful poem from John Keene’s “Punks,” which is a really great book. I wrote about love, too. The complex everything-ness of it. https://ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/john-keenes-beatitude

Devin Gael Kelly

This paragraph from Barry Lopez’s posthumous “Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World” feels like such a generous blueprint for how to move through & among the world https://t.co/dXbXiAj0ac

Devin Gael Kelly

“I have had no success, only the usual feeling of walking into yet another empty green field and realizing once again that the absence of an answer was the answer...” — Maria Stepanova (from “In Memory of Memory,” translated by Sasha Dugdale) https://t.co/YWvC0IYB8B

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“Does it have to be true, that everything / we touch, we break a little?” — Robert Wood Lynn (@RobertWoodLynn) https://t.co/g0tVs1dCDF

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Barry Lopez, from “Horizon” https://t.co/VnF2tURzrf

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Love this moment from Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment” — https://t.co/qXFr99fwKm

Devin Gael Kelly

On James Baldwin’s birthday, a few favorite sentences from Giovanni’s Room, a perfect novel — “the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.” https://t.co/1D2QlgAHDM

Devin Gael Kelly

Love this moment from Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment” — https://t.co/qXFr99fwKm

Devin Gael Kelly

For my newsletter today, I wrote about a poem from Kayleb Rae Candrilli's "Water I Won't Touch," & the way it reminds me of the beauty that comes when you attempt to do small things with great care & intention. https://t.co/FDWki5Em04

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RT @Bud_Smith: On my novel, Teenager “There is a typo on page 14. Other than that, this book is perfect.” —Bill Callahan