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Oooh, I love these recs. Another one to add to the list: Água Viva by Clarice Lispector.
"I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself."
Thanks for these recommendations! Fully agree with you that reafing welll beyond the bounds of a chosen form is super important in terms of enriching overall practice - looking forward to getting stuck into some of these :)
Oops I mean epigraph* 😆
I'm a big Claire Keegan fan, I'd recommend her quirky short story collection 'Antartica.'
So needed.
Oooh, I love these recs. Another one to add to the list: Água Viva by Clarice Lispector.
"I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself."
Whew.
Thanks for these recommendations! Fully agree with you that reafing welll beyond the bounds of a chosen form is super important in terms of enriching overall practice - looking forward to getting stuck into some of these :)
Yes! Reading beautiful prose does wonders for our poetry practice - I've always found this to be the case.