Melissa Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Melissa

@nonsuchbook Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets. Stach's Kafka biography.

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Thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak, And placed it by thee on a golden throne,- -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese. https://t.co/MGNVkNFMpF

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"I feel no sense of caution or restraint, nor do I have any doubts, finally. Something has come full circle. I commit the same errors as in the past but they are no longer errors. There is only beauty, passion, desire." -Annie Ernaux, "Getting Lost" (tr. A. Strayer)

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...and your love comes to prefer your scent above all... -Lorna Goodison, "Balm" Her "Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems" from @Carcanet is a wonderful read. https://t.co/vkYrKOOXtY

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@poemakontsa I got a pristine copy of Charles Wright's Oblivion Banjo!

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"Innocent reading is an instinct we never entirely lose. From an early age we surrender to stories and resent interruptions even for meals and bedtime; we recline in improbable positions for hours without getting cramps." -Michael Schmidt, "The Novel: A Biography"

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Thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak, And placed it by thee on a golden throne,- -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese. https://t.co/MGNVkNFMpF

Melissa

Thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak, And placed it by thee on a golden throne,- -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese. https://t.co/MGNVkNFMpF

Melissa

Love's time's beggar, but even a single hour, bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich. We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch. -Carol Ann Duffy https://t.co/W5AW7Y80hk

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@neonpajamas Sharon Olds "Odes" are funny. Alexander Theroux has some hilarious poems. And Ogden Nash is very tongue-in-cheek.

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