no grace to go

Charlotte Brontë, from “Jane Eyre”

— Franz Wright, from God’s Silence: Poems; “The Beloved Illusory,”

Ipanema beach. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1961. Elliott Erwitt.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

Dorothea Lange, Untitled (Adele Boke), 1951, gelatin silver print photograph

B: William Bearhart, from At The Dinner Table With God And My Father

University Of Westminster Ba - Fall RTW 2020

— Cynthia Cruz, from “Fragment,” Hotel Oblivion

Alejandra Pizarnik, from Diana’s Tree

— Rosario Castellanos, tr. by Magda Bogin, in The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos; “The Splendor of Being”

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor and founder of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photographed by Robert Henri, 9 January 1975.

— James Baldwin, from, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” originally published in 1974

— Kaveh Akbar, from “Portrait of the Alcoholic with Moths and River,” in Calling a Wolf a Wolf

— T.S. Eliot, from The Cocktail Party (Mariner, 1964)

A group of people lying in a drunken heap in a living room, 1954. Photographed by Kurt Hutton.

Vincent van Gogh quoting Victor Hugo’s “L’année terrible” in a letter to Theo van Gogh, July 1888

— Anne Sexton, Clothes