Mina Shaw

A writer of poetry and a post-postmodern post-it. Sometimes Romantically metamodern. My book, “The smell of commitment”, is available from Amazon.

[Mina Shaw @minamalism]

My book is out now on Alien Buddha Press.

[Alien Buddha Press (open for submissions) 🍉 @thealienbuddha]

'The smell of commitment (Grief therapy for the soul: A fictional biography in verse)' by Mina Shaw (@minamalism) is now available. Check out the link below where you can read 4 selections. Below that is a link to the paperback.

https://t.co/yD8limC6dQ

https://t.co/EunT2d8y61

[Lacan sans contexte @Lacan_nocontext]

The whole ambiguity of the question that arises around the object can be summarized as -- is the object real or not?

[The Yale Review @yalereview]

Why are Edgar Allan Poe's stories so disturbing and yet so relatable? In our fall issue, Emily Ogden on Poe's perverse imagination.
https://t.co/Ecj6GS8u2K

[Westerns & the Old West @DavidLambertArt]

Happy Birthday to Fred MacMurray, born 118 years ago today

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"What threatens us today is fear. .. Our danger is the forces in the world today which are trying to use man’s fear to rob him of his individuality, his soul, trying to reduce him to an unthinking mass."

—William Faulkner

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

In case anyone needs it, to have the ‘mubble-fubbles’ (16th century) means to have a fit of despondency or low spirits, such as the end-of-summer blues.

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

Designing Desire: Pedro Almodóvar.

In Almodóvar’s films, interiors shape the emotional narrative with their vibrant colors, iconic furniture and structured layouts. In this visual collection, we spotlight the very best of Almodóvar’s production design 🌹❤️

[Ed Sweetman @humanpilot]

Our Mothers and Grandmothers were cool as fuck...

London, England: 1955. From the series of photographs made by Ken Russell of "Teddy girls".

[Ed Sweetman @humanpilot]

"The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people."

~ Aldous Huxley

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“The ideal subject of totalitarianism... is people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”

— Hannah Arendt

[Classic Horror Films @HorrorHammer1]

Ad for DRACULA, which was released on Valentine's Day in 1931–unusual because the ad shows Dracula's three brides, seen in the film only briefly.

[L'uomo degli abissi @Fanrizio21]

life’s a joke
Havana Cuba 2019

Steve McCurry

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

"Happenstance" by Chancellor Emeritus Rita Dove, born #OTD in 1952.

Read more: https://t.co/KidEbuJm1r

[Lacan sans contexte @Lacan_nocontext]

We might remember that while language is essentially blah blah blah, it is nevertheless from language that having and being derive.

[🌐 @felxbr]

maybe the most iconic final line in cinema

[Lacan sans contexte @Lacan_nocontext]

Love is two half-sayings that do not overlap. This is what gives it its fatal character.

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“For the thinking person there is no such thing as idleness... By contrast, one might say that the thinking person is at his most active when he is supposedly doing nothing. This is beyond the comprehension of genuinely idle people”

~ Thomas Bernhard

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

Is it possible that existence
is our exile
and nothingness
our home?

~ Cioran

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

"Untitled [Lord,]" by James Baldwin, born #OTD in 1924.

Read more: https://t.co/jhpKufh7Ho

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

“The Night is Darkening Round Me” by Emily Brontë, born #OTD in 1818.

Read the poem: https://t.co/P5CKuc7rpB

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”

― Tennessee Williams