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poetry pieces/literary quotes that remind me of AshEiji: a thread
So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne.
Paul Eluard, “Gabriel Péri”, Selected Poems (trans. Gilbert Bowen)
Chungmi Kim, from “Allow Me”, Glacier Lily
Paul Eluard, “Liberty”, Selected Poems (trans. Gilbert Bowen)
Anna Akhmatova, The Road is Black
from Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women’s Poetry
Walt Whitman, “Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd”, Leaves of Grass
Etel Adnan, from ‘Five Senses for One Death’, Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (ed. & trans. Kamal Boullata)
Vladimir Nabokov, letter to his wife Véra (1926), Letters to Véra (ed. Brian Boyd & trans. Olga Voronin)
Mahmoud Darwish, from “When You Are With Me,” in Almond Blossoms and Beyond, tr. Mohammad Shaheen
Walt Whitman, “When I Heard at the Close of the Day”, Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman, “Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances”, Leaves of Grass
Faraj Bou al-Isha (b. 1956), “Wait”
translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
in: “Poems for the Millennium. Book of North African Literature”, edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour
translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
in: “Poems for the Millennium. Book of North African Literature”, edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour
Henry Dumas, Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas; “Valentines”
Anis Mojgani, In the Pockets of Small Gods
Margaret Atwood, from “Corpse Song,”, Selected Poems, 1965-1975
to end this thread here's an Excerpt from a letter from Tove Jansson to Tuulikki Pietilä, published in Letters From Tove, trans. by Sarah Death; Sort of Books, 2019
