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Zwieblein

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Writing! Words! Dense and heady literature and criticism! I host long conversations with other readers at the Plain Reading podcast!

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I was stupidly thrilled while reading my e-newsletter from @elcultural to find the word "letraheridos" (more or less "people hurt by letters") to describe what English might call or lovers—and now I'm wondering if the origins of this newer term have anything to do with declaring was hurt into ... Wherever it came from, I'm declaring it the best word I've heard in ages.

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Zwieblein, to bookstodon
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Why yes, I will completely avoid the present this evening by tucking into my nearly 70-year-old edition of 7 Types of Ambiguity. Appropriate that it arrived today when, to rephrase , I've been feeling quite out of joint in time.

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Zwieblein, to bookstodon
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Gabrielle Calvocoressi, from "Save Me Joe Louis":

"but America is like that,
unrelenting, you get what you ask for
in the ring or on the kitchen floor.
Someone always wants you to give up,

shake hands, wipe the blood away and talk
of lighter things. And you do
because you've been fighting long enough
to know there's no one here to save you."

Yup. @poetry @bookstodon

Zwieblein, to writingcommunity
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Pondering forays today into pantoums and/or sestinas; I hope to be able in the next few days to test out a vague sense that certain poetic might get at certain or situations in ways others might not. (Hardly a revelation, but it's a new point in my being unable to abandon attempts at .)
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Repairing Design: Damage, Care, and Fragilities

Guest Editors: Blanca Callén & Melisa Duque

This issue explores how design, its products, and disciplinary limits could be 'repaired' through the alliance with repair practices, agents, and derived knowledge.

http://www.revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/issue/view/3129

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@tscriado @sts Whoa, this looks fascinating—it's now on top of my virtual to-be-read pile.

Zwieblein, to bookstodon
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Even if I'm never able to explain more than the very basic idea of Hélène Cixous's Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang, I will still offer all thanks to the literary gods for having brought it my way. What an incredible work, which I finished last night, and will go ahead and classify at least partially as #poetry, even as it probably also falls under #philosophy, #theory, #criticism, #essays, and so much more. All hail the unclassifiables!

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Zwieblein, to bookstodon
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I think it was you, @nadinmai, who mentioned Geert Mak's In Europe not too long ago. Well, I got, it, dove in, and just couldn't stop . Incredible book—and it was all even better, knowing it was a sort of word-of-mouth recommendation!

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In discussing Yvonne Vera's "description of Mbira music,"* Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri says that he takes her writing "to mean that Mbira is fundamental in a way that entertainment and leisure do not capture."

In its turn, Muchiri's phrase pretty much lays out the very way in which is fundamental to me.

*In on the Soil: Land and in Literature from Eastern and Southern , 73–4

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Although a work trip had me away from all screens for a week (bliss!), I did read Amber Caron's excellent collection of , Call Up the Waters. AND I even wrote up an odd little right here:

https://walkingthewire.substack.com/p/call-up-the-waters-a-brief-book-review

(Thanks to the good folks at Milkweed Editions for recommending this one to me!)

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@bookstodon folks, what’s a book you read once and then revisited many years later? did it hold up? or age like milk?

brought to you by my reread of The Sparrow, which made me feel bonkers.

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@lunalein @bookstodon That one was delicious.

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@lunalein @bookstodon Joyce's Ulysses: first time around, certain sections made me understand, based on Joyce's brilliant ability to capture dialogue and language in general, why so many people have called it the greatest novel ever. Revisiting it ten years later, I still appreciated it, but was less enamored in general. (However, another instance, involving reading it aloud with a group, was a real joy, and different, of course, from reading it on one's own in silence.)

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@owlislost @bookstodon As usual, I'm the midst of a stack of huge books all at the same time! Trying this weekend, though, to focus on getting through good chunks of Jerome Loving's Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself and vol. 6 of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle.

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Sunday reading: Geert Mak's "In Europe - Travels Through The 20th Century" (2004).

It was recommended to me and I'm really looking forward to reading it.

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@nadinmai @bookstodon @histodons It's now on my to-be-read list!

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@lunalein @bookstodon In addition to Ross Gay and Claudia Rankine, I'll take the risk of betting on a couple of of whose work I've only read one *: Anna Burns (based on Milkman) and Rachel Cusk (based on Outline—I've just bought the other two in that trilogy).

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