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— Susan Sontag, from a journal entry featured in Reborn: Journals & Notebooks (1947-1963)

— Franz Kafka, from a diary entry wr. c. January 1917 featured in “Diaries,”

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ya Xian, from a poem titled "Andante Cantabile," featured in A century of modern Chinese poetry : an anthology

rainer maria rilke, letters to a young poet

1. anne sexton (“the truth the dead know”), 2. anne sexton (“suicide note poem”), 3. mary oliver (“august”), 4. l.m. montgomery (“anne of the island”), 5. morgan parker (“the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth”), 6. found poems: sylvia plath / peter k. steinberg (“percy key among the narcissi”) artwork by hugo grenville

Albert Camus, from his novel titled "The Fall," originally published in 1956

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

A Middle-Earth Traveller, John Howe

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, from “And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes”

mahmood darwish, sylvia plath, v.e. schwab, ana mendieta

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath