right handed

Oliver Herford, “I Heard a Bird Sing”

incense burner in the shape of a praying mantis, gold and iron alloy, japanese c. 1800s.

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

reimagining shame, on writing and being seen

Samurai-Class Woman’s Purse (hakoseko) with Carp in Swirling Water, 19th century

René Lalique, Diadem of pearls, diamonds, gold and enamelwork, ca. 1903 (Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim)

Cashmere, John Singer Sargent, 1908

“Abundance” by Amy Schmidt, published in Rattle January 20, 2019

Jenny Hval, from Girls Against God

—Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to his wife Véra (1924), Letters to Véra

Sylvia Plath, excerpt from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 

Jane Hirshfield, from Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, "To Spareness"

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Zinaida Gippius

Paul Celan, from a poem titled "Twelve Years," featured in Selected Poems & Prose

Paris, July-August 1887