CURRENTS

— Anna de Noailles, tr. by Norman R. Shapiro, from Poems; “Spring Lullaby,”

“Please do not fear for me. I have no fear myself. The old monsters are gone. The old curses have echoed to silence. And if my immortal soul is lost to me, something yet remains. I remain.“ 

1) You can buy my book here 2) Email me at [email protected] or DM me here if you are interested in personalized poetry, help with an assignment, or whatever other need one may have in this world.  3) Or, if you have perhaps not hated my poetry over the years and feel like helping out, you can venmo me here thank you for your help, for reading my nonsense, for being here with me over these last (six? seven?) years. this has always been my haven, and I am eternally grateful for the friends I have made here. regardless of this, I am thankful for  my place here, for you, the one reading this now.  sincerely, Hag / eleanor 

— Lu Yun, from tr. by Burton Watson, “For Ku Yen-hsien, A Poem for Him to Give to his Wife,”

January ninth

— Margaret Atwood, from “The Tent,” originally published c. February 2006

My “moon” tag (you could also search through your phone for “moon” in my blog, I often post moon poetry here) 🌚🌙

I Believe in Unicorns (2014) dir. Leah Meyerhoff

— Anna de Noailles, tr. by Jethro Bithell, from Poems; “A Forest In Autumn,”

Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from “Maria Nephele: A Poem In Two,”

— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from “Maria Nephele: A Poem In Two,”

— Andrée Sodenkamp, tr. by Renée Linkhorn & Judy Cochran, from “Chinese Statuette,”

— Anna de Noailles, tr. by Jethro Bithell, from Poems; “In The Garden,”

— Lola Ridge, from To the Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge; “Hellish,”

— Anne Carson, “Totality, The Colour of Eclipse”, in Decreation (via antigonick)