#djuna barnes

[booksandothersecrets]

Haunted (hunted?)

Sad, Beautiful, Tragic - Taylor Swift // Nightwood - Djuna Barnes // Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë // Work Song - Hozier // Ghosts (Demo) - Florence and the Machine

#are we seeing the vision #taylor swift #sad beautiful tragic #hozier #work song #haunted #florence and the machine #nightwood #djuna barnes #emily bronte #wuthering heights #web weaving #literature #fatm #music #lit

[cor-ardens-archive]

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

#this is killing me... #Nightwood #Djuna Barnes #m. lit.

[quotespile]

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

#literature #quotes #Djuna Barnes #Nightwood #quote #books #lit

[loneberry]

I have a poem that was recently published in The New York Times Magazine here.

Since it’s paywalled, I’m pasting Anne Boyer’s beautiful introduction below.

Jackie Wang’s poem draws its title, in part, from Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel of queer love, “Nightwood”: “ladies of the haute sewer taking their last stroll, sauntering on their last Rotten Row.” The poem’s rhythm echoes the rhythm of the life the poem describes. Some readers will already know this life. For them — for us — the poem is a recognition, one I don’t often see in contemporary poetry. Poets, however, were once experts on the ecstasy of the gutter. As Francois Villon or Charles Baudelaire did before her, Wang writes poetry that reminds us that life is more than the grim fatalism of to-do lists and bank accounts. The poem rushes forward, headed toward the edge. Then the lover-thieves get caught. The bill comes due. The poem slows. The heart breaks. This was, after all, an elegy. Despite the living thrill of its cadence, “those days,” those lovers, are gone now. What’s left is poetry. Selected by Anne Boyer

Ladies of the Sarasota Sewer

By Jackie Wang

in those days

we ate garbage for every meal

i dove in the dumpsters with

the atlanta boys

got chubby on a bucket

of expired breakfast bars

fine dining was stealing

continental breakfast

at all the nearby hotels

filching lukewarm dannon

yogurts and bananas

from the mediocre spread

only once we were caught

they gave us a bill

we had no money

i said i would go home

to try to get some money

and when i left

they let you go without paying

thinking i had left you in the lurch

all the love i see is gone

we lived on fumes

the adrenalin of our

breaking bones

#poetry #literature #anne boyer #jackie wang #new york times #djuna barnes #nightwood #queer poetry #lesbianism #elegy

[tygerland]

Djuna Barnes, 1926, by Berenice Abbott.

#black and white photography #lit #academia #djuna barnes #1920s #berenice abbott #portrait #retro #fashion #lifestyle #queer history #style #literature #gender #jazz #lgbtq history #culture #lgbtq #vintage #photos #📸

[quotessentially]

From Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

#quote #quotes #Djuna Barnes #Nightwood #words #books #literature

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Djuna Barnes #Nightwood #quote #lit #books #words

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Djuna Barnes #Nightwood #Barnes #identity #pride #ego #actions #responsibility

[stavroginas]

— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

#quotes #djuna barnes #nightwood

[innervoiceartblog]

“I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.”

― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

Art by Catrin Welz-Stein

#love #imagika #strange #forgotten #heart and soul #art and soul #Djuna Barnes #Nightwood #Catrin Welz-Stein

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

Nora Flood/Robin Vote- Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Tanner Scott/Sebastian Brother- Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

Mateo Torres/Rufus Emeterio- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Sam Haversford(Sam of Wilds)/Knight Commander Ryan Foxheart- The Lightning Struck Heart by Tj Klune

#nora flood #robin vote #nightwood #djuna barnes #tanner scott #sebastian brother #autoboyography #christina lauren #mateo torres #rufus emeterio #tbdate #they both die t the end #adam silvera #Sam Haversford #Sam of Wilds #Ryan Foxheart #Knight Commander Ryan Foxheart #HaveHeart #The Lightning Struck Heart #Tj Klune #polls #lgbt books #queer book ship tournament

[davidhudson]

Djuna Barnes, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982.

With Solita Solano. 1925 photo by Maurice-Louis Branger.

#djuna barnes #solita solano #maurice-louis branger

[jimin-updates]

A poem for Jimin:

❤️

#jimin #poems for jimin #jimtober #djuna barnes

[violettesiren]

Here where the trees tremble with your flight I sit and braid thin whips to beat you down. How shall we ever find you who have gone In little dresses, lisping through the town?

Great men on horses hunt you, and strong boys Employ their arrows in the shallow air. But I shall be heard whistling where I follow Braiding long wisps of grass and stallion’s hair.

And in the night when thirty hawks are high In pendent rhythm, and all the wayside loud; When they are burning field and bush and hedge, I’ll steal you like a penny from the crowd.

She Passed This Way by Djuna Barnes

#djuna barnes

[camillerowep]

On this day in 2018, Camille shared photos with the caption “♥️🇫🇷♥️”

#camille rowe #camille rowe pourcheresse #fingermonkey #camille rowe bel #july 2018 #2018 #djuna barnes #nikolai haas

[knifeeater]

Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves. In Nora’s heart lay the fossil of Robin, intaglio of her identity, and about it for its maintenance ran Nora’s blood. Thus the body of Robin could never be unloved, corrupt or put away. Robin was now beyond timely changes, except in the blood that animated her.

Duna Barnes - Nightwood

#djuna barnes #nightwood #locket #composition #trace