A hull made to touch
the arctic shoulder of the vacant
sea.
Alan Felsenthal, “Lowly”
Tag: currently reading
Currently Reading: Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric, 2014.
Do Not Sell at Any Price
Amanda Petrusich, Do Not Sell at Any Price, 2014.
Made to Break
D. Foy, Made to Break, 2014.
On Immunity
Eula Biss, On Immunity: an Inoculation, 2014.
From the Mouth of the Whale
Sjón, From the Mouth of the Whale, 2008, translated 2011.
Living with a Wild God
Barbara Eherenreich, Living with a Wild God, 2014.
“[I]f you’re not prepared to die when you’re almost sixty, then I would say you’ve been falling down on your philosophical responsibilities as a grown-up human being.”
Carl Theordor Dreyer and Ordet
Jan Wahl, Carl Theordor Dreyer and Ordet: My Summer with the Danish Filmmaker, 2012.
The Chronology of Water
Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water, 2011.
Bluets
Inspiration: Karl Ove Knausgaard
[T]hat is what you do when you breathe, you trespass,
again and again you trespass on the world.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle, Book One, p 341.