Poetry person. Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (@Pennedinthem). Screen (Paper Tigers Books). Limit.less_an assembly of the sick (@LitmusUK). ed @frmkpoetry
Birthmarks on newborn babies used to be called "longing-marks" and were believed to take on the shape of something desired by the mother. Pouring a drink and wishing I'd asked the mom who marked me with desire what on earth she'd been desiring.
“We cannot get around silence. We can only go through it.
The mind is unable to think the mind.”
— Edmond Jabès
(A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book, tr. R. Waldrop)
everyone is participating in the "what to do about young men" debate without actually discussing the book that figured out what needs to happen 52 years ago, we need to stop them from continuing to get oedipized over and over again by patriarchal systems
I don't study politics, but I do study culture, and here are some of the signs that a cultural shift has been brewing for years in America that most of the professional political analysts just completely missed.
Some of these may seem absurd, but hear me out. 🧵
We'll start with this one:
Deleuze: For Proust, to write is to “read the inner book of these unknown signs… There is no logos, there are only hieroglyphs. To think is therefore to interpret, is therefore to translate.”
— Ricardo Piglia, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi (tr. Robert Croll)
“…in the end, a poet was someone for whom the world didn’t even exist, because, for him, there was only the radiance of the eternal outside.”
— Enrique Vila-Matas, The Illogic of Kassel (tr. McLean and Milsom)