Nelson Rose

“Life is many days. This will end.” Not a writer, not a critic, not an academic, just a lay reader!

[Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh]

James Merrill. “No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today’s / Dusk room aglow / For the last time / With candlelight. / Faces love lit, / Gifts underfoot. / Still to be so poised, so / Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.”

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

@bartlebytaco For more great Cheever Christmas writing see the opening chapter of The Wapshot Scandal—an uneven book as a whole but has its moments!

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

@rayfp @MarcSessler

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

“today I
decided to write
a long
thin
poem

employing certain
classical considerations”

A good day to start this book!

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

@NickPinkerton That’s just what he told people, he was real goal was in the next room…

[💜💜🎀 ȶɦɛ ȶɦɨռӄɛʀ🎀 💜💜 @NickPinkerton]

Jalen Hurts wouldn't allow himself to climb Philadelphia's famous "Rocky steps" until he won the Super Bowl. This was a powerful motivator, as he was dying to see Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even at the world-class Philadelphia Museum of Art.

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

@TheLuisPanini I think I started with Northanger Abbey, because it was her first completed novel (though published later). But I’m sure you can’t go wrong!

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

@aliner M. Satie

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

“Solitary music teachers, themselves bred on toil, leading the young by way of pain and discipline to their own honorable impasse, teaching in that way the scales of disappointment.”
-Elizabeth Hardwick, SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

[valerie @valplusseven]

strong contender for best song of all time https://t.co/GFmsm1yCAj

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

John Ashbery

[Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh]

Schuyler's elegy for O'Hara, and one of the most beautiful poems I know: "new needles / on the spruce, new seaweed / on the low-tide rocks / other grass and other water / even the great gold lichen / on a granite boulder / even the boulder quite / literally is not the same"

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

Hammershoi

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

two favorite poems on dailiness, schuyler and berrigan—

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

@bartlebytaco Schuyler, the king of dailiness

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

@rob_rubsam I’ve heard rumors of a Hammershoi exhibit coming to Chicago in the somewhat near future…

[Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh]

This is the speech that @Ruwa4Georgia and the @uncommittedmvmt wants to give at the DNC. (Source: https://t.co/9N17STfTtp)

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

Elizabeth Bishop going off on Salinger in a letter to Pearl Kazin in 1959…

“How can they let him do it?”

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

@Glenn__Kenny “Was it the movie or the making of Fitzcarraldo
Where someone learned to love again?”

https://t.co/GEc06Cw6vE

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

From the collected letters, which are great

[Nelson Rose @NelsonRose1808]

Elizabeth Bishop’s reading list from 1953 in Brazil, including Dickens, Trollope, Freud, and “innumerable works on compost.”