discovered a snippet of this poem when i was 12 and on tumblr, but rediscovered the entire 45 page epic more recently and it's so much better than the three lines about forgiveness that were on my #deep board, would love to rummage around his mind whenever
Feb 9, 2024
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aria aber read it with her own amazing poem on the new yorker poetry pod & i havenāt stopped thinking about it sinceā¦ bidartās recording is constantly playing in my head
Jan 18, 2025
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The framing meta narrative as a biting critique of literary criticism makes it an interesting and funny read but the poetry itself is also beautiful and Nabokov has a way with words like none otherā¦
āI was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.
And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate
Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate:
Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass
Hang all the furniture above the grass,
And how delightful when a fall of snow
Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so
As to make chair and bed exactly stand
Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!ā
Also recommend reading poetry out loud (to get a feel for its rhythmic nature) and subscribing to the poetry newsletter of The Paris Review they send you a poem every day!!
Apr 1, 2024
This is embarrassing I Googled To Absence to just post it again and this linked rec I posted previously was the second resultā¦ anyway I adore his poetry! a lot of his poems are addressed to abstract concepts or inanimate objects and he has such a gift for restraint and economy of language
Jan 28, 2025
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if you think youāre the smartest person in your friend group youāre weird and annoying. the best friendships come out of mutual awe and respectability. be friends with people who make you want to know more things.
Jan 29, 2024
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i will never be in a situationship in the same way i will never be in the land of oz--it's just not real. i think using the word doesn't let you self-reflect in a way that is truly helpful. i was telling my friend about the awkwardness of seeing an exhook up in a relationship bc i thought we had mutual feelings and she said "oh your exsituationship" and i thought (for the first time) no, we had clear boundaries i just got my hopes up. my point is that instead of using situationship as a catch-all for not quite dating or wtv failed prospect, take it as a moment to reflect on what exactly went wrong. idk if this is profound or not
Jan 30, 2025
iām averaging 14,000 steps a day for the past year, why? i walk everywhere. at one point i was averaging 16,000 (this is my flex). you get to explore a city and now when people ask me for directions i can actually tell them bc iāve gotten really good at knowing where i am. if it takes less than an hour for me to walk from a to b, i will walk. if i have enough time iāll walk 2+ hours just to see someone. just put on a good playlist/pod and go go go!!
Jan 29, 2024