— Hilda Hilst, from With My Dog-Eyes

— Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (tr. Jan van Heurck)

Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. by Elaine Feinstein from, “It’s not like waiting for post.”

— Dunya Mikhail, from ‘The Chaldean’s Ruins’, The War Works Hard (trans. Elizabeth Winslow)

— Franz Wright, from “The Leaves”, Earlier Poems

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Self Harmageddon — dandelion hands

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟼 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

— A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara  (via honeymelancholy)

— George Sand, from a letter to Gustave Flaubert featured in The George Sand & Gustave Flaubert Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from The Selected Works; “Memoirs of Martynov,” (x)

Isolation

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star