literature

"The word "devotion," as I am using it, need not refer to the embodiment of a specific religious form. Rather, it is the opening or the inte...

I can't get enough of spring. Dandelion fluff floats in the grass-sweetened air. I almost inhale it. I like the thought of the dandelion par...

Started reading Edith Södergran's Modern Woman , published by World Poetry Books The following poems are not from the collection, but they g...

"To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, ...

Erika Giovanna Klien - "Diving Bird" (1939) Erika Giovanna Klien - "Kinetische Figur" (1927) Erika Giovanna Klien - "Rhythm of Bird Flight" ...

It was a good mail day. My Criterion Collection blu-rays for Birth , Testament , and All That Heaven Allows arrived! Birth is one of my all-...

There were snow flurries today! I live in the South, and it never snows here. I tried to capture some of the snow, but it doesn't show up to...

Art by Christiane Ritter , created when she spent a year in the Arctic with her husband in the 1930s. She later published A Woman in the Pol...

Marguerite Duras The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf Ariel by Sylvia Plath The Ravishing of Lol Stein...