#American lit

[artandchocolate]

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

#sylvia plath #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #dark academism #dark academic aesthetic #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia #literature #english literature #american lit #typography #typographyedit #lit #quotes #classic literature #books #female

[andrumedus]

There is an ache that begins in the sound of an old blues song. It becomes a house where all the lights have gone out but one. And it burns and burns until there is only the blue smoke of dawn and everyone is sleeping in someone's arms even the flowers even the sound of a thousand silences. And the arms of night in the arms of day. Everyone except me.

Joy Harjo, In Mad Love and War; “Summer Night”

#literature #poetry #joy harjo #in mad love and war #increments of longing #tender‚ delicate #loneliness of the lover #indigenous lit #american lit #m #x

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Some long-forgot, enchanted, strange, Sweet garden of a thousand years ago,"

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Interim"

via southerncrossreview.org

#edna st. vincent millay #quotes #literature quotes #literary quotes #lit quotes #quotations #literary quotations #fragments #20th century poetry #20th century literature #american literature #american lit #poetry #poem #american poetry #american author #poetry fragments

[llovelymoonn]

alice hoffman practical magic

kofi

#id in alt text #alice hoffman #practical magic #quotes #on self #on life #american lit #american literature #fragments

[newvision]

— Richard Siken, from ‘Birds Hover the Trampled Field’ in War of the Foxes

#wanted to use a bone saw on my skull so naturally I started rereading Siken #some poems will haunt me forever #Richard siken #crush #war of the foxes #poetry #queer poetry #queer books #queer lit #queer literature #american poetry #american lit #american literature #mine

[many-sparrows]

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, 2003

#emily Dickinson #poetry #his furniture is love #:) #god stuff #godblr #religion #queer christians #love #the love the love the love #the love (etc) #literature #american lit

[empirearchives]

Herman Melville on Napoleon’s love for Ossian

Context: Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian.

“I am rejoiced to see Hazlitt speak for Ossian. There is nothing more contemptable in that contemptable man (tho' good poet, in his department) Wordsworth, than his contempt for Ossian. And nothing that more raises my idea of Napoleon than his great admiration for him.—The loneliness of the spirit of Ossian harmonized with the loneliness of the greatness of Napoleon.”

Melville wrote this around 1862 in the margins of his copy of Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Comic Writers and Lectures on the English Poets

Source: Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography - Volume 2, p. 436

#Herman Melville #Melville #Napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #Hershel Parker #Herman Melville biography #Herman Melville: A Biography #Hazlitt #Lectures on the English Comic Writers #Ossian #romanticism #napoleonic era #napoleonic #american literature #American lit #american renaissance #Wordsworth #the poems of Ossian #celtic mythology #fingal #temora #british literature #Scottish #scottish literature #Scotland

[abracazabka]

"Why are some gays so obsessed with horror genres and why are the Hannibal queers so overcome by consumption of flesh as a metaphor for--" ask fucking Herman Melville. Go on. Resurrect him and ask. I want to know what was going on in that man's head.

#moby dick #herman melville #queequeg #ishmael #lit #american lit #literature #classic lit #homoeroticism #tw cannibalism mention #hannibal

[earlyamerica]

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. 1951.

#literature #books #american literature #american lit #jd salinger #the catcher in the rye

[pattern-53-enfield]

The most devastating part of buying these was the teller asking "did you watch the wendigoon video".

#blood meridian #american psycho #elmore leonard #books #american lit

[heinrichheineee]

Nathaniel Hawthorne writing about Herman Melville. Journal entry date: November 12, 1856

“It is strange how he persists — and has persisted ever since I knew him, and probably long before”

Source: Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, A Documentary Life of Herman Melville: 1819-1891, vol. II

#Nathaniel Hawthorne #Hawthorne #Herman Melville #Melville #american lit #american literature #literature #romanticism #1800s #19th century lit #19th century literature #1800s literature #journal #The Melville Log #jay leyda #leyda

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

My 2023 TBR (8/?) 

Assorted women’s lit. I love Erica Jong. I have read a few of her poetry collections and Sappho’s Leap. I finally got a copy of Fear of Flying. I’m determined to read it before I turn 30. Her protagonist is 29 and I just love it when I can coordinate with the characters’ ages. I read Persuasion for the first time when I was 28, the same age as Austen’s heroine Anne Eliot. And I think that made the story all the more powerful for me. Persuasion is now my favorite Austen novel because of that experience. 

I have been wanting to read both Anne Rice and Amy Tan for a long time as well. The Girl who Reads on the Metro was featured in one of Jack Edwards’ videos. Women in Their Beds (a short story collection) was up for a goodreads award I think within the last couple years- or it was nominated at least. I think that’s where I got it from. And I’ve heard good things about Come As You Are and it’s appeared on many suggestion lists for books on relationships, dating, and sex. 

#books #bookblr #tbr #tbr 2023 #owned books #fear of flying #erica jong #the joy luck club #amy tan #interview with the vampire #anne rice #women in their beds #gina berriault #the girl who reads on the metro #christine feret fleury #come as you are #dr. emily nagoski #women's lit #women writers #american lit #french lit #20th century #21st century #want to read #my chatter #I get my book recs from multiple sources #goodreads booktube and on here too #I also have a storygraph but I'm newer to it so I haven't gotten any recs on it yet

[andrumedus]

Morgan Parker, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night; “Greetings from Struggle City”

[Text ID: For a taste of your neck I would / burn my tongue]

#literature #poetry #morgan parker #other people’s comfort keeps me up at night #voracious cravings #is love not death? #typography #american lit #m #x

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Emily Dickinson

#emily dickinson #poetry #19th century #19th century poetry #19th century literature #literature #classic literature #classic poetry #poem #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #quotes #light academia #light academia aesthetic #classic academia #american literature #american lit #american poetry #poems #e

[llovelymoonn]

sylvia plath the bell jar

kofi

#sylvia plath #the bell jar #on self #on life #quotes #american lit #american literature #fragments #excerpts

[newvision]

— Danez Smith, iv. not an ode for John Crawford (a bop) from Black Movie

#danez smith #Black Movie #American lit #american literature #litblr #literature #books #poetry #contemporary poetry #contemporary literature #contemporary #dark academia #aesthetic #light academia #academia #dark academia style #dark academia aesthetic